6 thoughts on “Language Quiz

  1. The vowel system doesn’t sound very Slavic to me … but I do get some Russian overtones here, so I think the speaker is bilingual in Russian (or some other East Slavic language) and our target language, spoken somewhere in the area of the former Soviet Union.

  2. I hear haywan, which is Arabic for “animal” and is borrowed into other Islamic languages. There is a clear Russian accent, so I think it is most likely a Central Asian Turkic language.

  3. There possibly is ‘haywan’ and also ‘asfur’ (birds). I think I hear voiceless pharyngeal fricatives (ح). So maybe some Caucasian language spoken by Muslims is also a possibility.

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