Guess the Language, anyone?

[opipik]

Is it one of the Tani languages?

Yes.

[Vijay]

Apatani?

[opipik]

Apatani?

Nope.

[Vijay]

Mishing?

[opipik]

No.

[Sglod]

Bori?

[opipik]

Bori?

Nope.

[Vijay]

Adi?

[opipik]

Yes.

[Vijay]

Wait, so now do I need to guess which variety of Adi, or should I just post a new sample in another language?

[opipik]

Wait, so now do I need to guess which variety of Adi, or should I just post a new sample in another language?

Post a new sample.

[Vijay]

Okely dokelies! Thanks!

A tha ũa baburu e ra m. N thêka m'me, n thêka m'me, n thêka m'me; vuuu! ia kiziga thêka bi, ki ũa valapo mo. A fa kwa e ya lemba-lemba, pa ê bi beta m. Atê n laa dhanela; asi va, n na ta m'ma n ga patha wa.

N siê ka be, atê ngaa dha-dha, atê sipitali. N ga taka kathon pegaru, ia n dhuga ũa dhuga, n kega andhu atê Angene. M parithê ũa parithê, n na tô pôi wa. I, mondja ma n tambe na ka n'da thê ũa tano paata ndjibela wa.

Ola ma m be ki dhumbi e siminteli, ola m bi, ola m ba lêlê kompa m Me Kandê, put'e, a fa m fala ya ê thêka txia vi, pa m ba lêl'ê.

Thô m ba lêl'ê ngaa dha-dha. N vumba kompa m dô litu vi ba bêbê. I olawo, asi wa n ga tua faaku mondja ô. N ga tua faaku, punda n na m'me wa. Kompa! N tapaya.

I'm pretty sure it's not possible to find this text online btw.

[opipik]

Bantu?

[Vijay]

Nope!

[opipik]

Does the name of the language start with K, L, or M?

[Vijay]

Nope!

EDIT: Although it is not a Bantu language, it does have a Bantu substrate.

[opipik]

Niger-Congo?

[Vijay]

Nope!

EDIT: (Totally unrelated comments, sorry)

Yeah. I'd found your source, but I couldn't find any other samples of the language [Pochuri] 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?

There are folk songs on YouTube in Pochuri as well, e.g. this one performed by Pochuri students in New Delhi at the Naga Students' Union, which is apparently one of the biggest student organizations there. (Yes, apparently it's a folk song ).

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.

It might be helpful to bear in mind what part of the world this language is spoken in, though. This is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken pretty much right on the border with Burma, so it's far more likely to show phonological similarities with e.g. Burmese than with an Indo-Aryan language, and even Burmese has all of those things (at least some speakers have the alveolar approximant as well).

[jmcd]

A Portuguese creole?

[Vijay]

Yes, that's right!

[opipik]

Angolar?

[Vijay]

Yep! Your turn!

[opipik]

Fiugade öne weni unem demön Surem, ame amune waraka Ayïm urïm, ame waxaka Ayïm önugwa, ame aka Ayïm.

[Vijay]

Is it a language spoken in the Amazon?

[opipik]

Is it a language spoken in the Amazon?

Nope.