Guess the Language, anyone?

[Nortaneous]

Is it Plateau Penutian?

Nez Perce

[Xephyr]

It is Nez Perce. Emoticonface wins.

[Nortaneous]

Kürüka vü azhüzhüsheh taji rükana. Noh hiri thuoti jütü nga mütu bewhuona. Eh kümüsheri müjie küsaju küju ni mütu bewhuo, tjhi kiro bewhuona. Mishe bela kheluo. Nosü nüh sate nü noh hiri eh guo kenüh zanyo kümühie küsü nü müsa thuoji mümühiethuo.

[gach]

Melanesian?

[Nortaneous]

no

[Acid Badger]

Mesoamerican?

[Nortaneous]

nope

[din]

Something Tibeto-Burman probably, but because there's not much info about these languages in easily accessible places, I'll probably never find it without cheating


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Even with a little cheating it's hard, but I'm going to say it's Pochuri

[Ambrisio]

Is it spoken in India?

It looks like Sumi.

[Nortaneous]

Something Tibeto-Burman probably

correct

Is it spoken in India?

also correct

It looks like Sumi.

incorrect

[Ambrisio]

I'm pretty sure it's Angami-Pochuri if not Sumi per se.

So I'll guess Rengma.

[Nortaneous]

It's not Rengma.

[Ambrisio]

Pochuri?

[Nortaneous]

Correct.

That was the only sample of it I could find on the internet at all. Would've gone with Angami but all the pfü pfü pfü everywhere makes it obvious.

[din]

Correct.

That was the only sample of it I could find on the internet at all.

Yeah. I'd found your source, but I couldn't find any other samples of the language at all to compare it against. Or any samples of related languages to compare it against, for that matter. Do you have a paper on the language or a book that discusses it?

Speaking of Angami, this sounds like 2 Americans recorded it at their local church (with the alveolar approximant, the aspirated plosives and the English-esque diphthongs). I'm sure it'll sound different spoken, but it's kinda freaky.

[jmcd]

The diphthongs maybe, but Angami has a retroflex approximant (and a voiceless version) anyway. While trills and taps are more common than alveolar or retroflex approximants, they do still occur outwith English.

[Ambrisio]

Daawa fyɛrɛ ga n faa yee tye fyɛrɛ. Waxadu syɛn ki
ga swotoore, ki ga syɛgɛ wari fyɛrɛ tin ki faa. Bandaa ga ki
tuun i waxadu syɛn. Ki koron guye ga goyin, ki tuun xala
ga in ŋwɔyi. Tige gaana bayi ki jwɔn guye syɛn tɔɔ ma. Ye
kuju ye’e ɲaalaa ye’e tɔɔye syɛn ga fuluna.

[kanejam]

Bantu?

[Nortaneous]

Cushitic?

[Ambrisio]

Neither!

(And it's not !Khoisan, for sure)

[gach]

Nilotic?

[dhok]

Other Niger-Congo?

[Ambrisio]

Other Niger-Congo?

Correct.

[Nortaneous]

Atlantic-Congo?

Speaking of Angami, this sounds like 2 Americans recorded it at their local church (with the alveolar approximant, the aspirated plosives and the English-esque diphthongs). I'm sure it'll sound different spoken, but it's kinda freaky.

I doubt it. As far as I can tell, Angami really does sound like that -- either that or everyone on Youtube speaks it in a thick American English accent.

[Ambrisio]

No, it's not Atlantic-Congo.