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Warp3
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 Message 33 of 75
09 January 2012 at 4:58am | IP Logged 
It's definitely not Korean and it doesn't really sound like Japanese either (I haven't studied Japanese, but have heard it enough that I usually recognize it as Japanese when I hear it). It sounds tonal to me and somewhat reminds me of Thai, but I don't really know anything of Thai to be certain either way. I know someone who is Thai, though, so I could send it to her and see if she what she thinks.

Where is the clip from?
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 Message 34 of 75
09 January 2012 at 5:09am | IP Logged 
zhanglong wrote:
Using petrklic's suggestion, I created my very own youtube account and uploaded my first video!

This is a language unknown to me; none of my colleagues can figure out what it is. Let's see who can crack it.


It's definitely not Mandarin or Cantonese. It's not Taishanese. It may be Thai, Hakka, Minnanese, Korean, or Vietnamese.

The best guess is that it's an East Asian language. But which one?


http://youtu.be/SS8ll3dHuOE

By the way, it's very inspiring to read all of the team's logs. Good luck in Week 2!
What language is this?


I wouldn't bet that it's Korean or Vietnamese. It doesn't quite seem like Thai either unless it's something divergent from what I've heard when sampling Thai in a news broadcast. It does sound vaguely like a Chinese language but that's as far as I can get it.
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 Message 35 of 75
09 January 2012 at 8:25am | IP Logged 
Definitely reminds barely of Chinese. But I will be honest, a friend I have back in the United States is from Zimbabwe and towards the end of the recording it sounds very similar to one of the languages he speaks.

It definitely feels Asian, but towards the end of it I keep seeing his face. lol... I have no idea.

Where did you get the recording?
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zhanglong
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 Message 36 of 75
09 January 2012 at 10:32am | IP Logged 
Someone sent me the recording as a challenge; I've talked to people conversant with many languages, but so far there is no consensus as to what this language is.

Could it be Swahili-?
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 Message 37 of 75
09 January 2012 at 2:16pm | IP Logged 
Ha, I don't think it is Swahili, but he speaks another language that I cant spell correctly but the name sounds sort of not quite like "dagali", but that language has clicks in it.

I was just throwing it out there in case all the searching turns up with nothing and you want to look in Africa.

Though, my money is definitely on an Asian language.
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 Message 38 of 75
09 January 2012 at 4:32pm | IP Logged 
Interesting challenge. If it's Vietnamese, then I can't decipher what it says. Neither it sounds much like Vietnamese, as far as I can tell. (Not that I'm any authority, of course.) The first part is approximately gia số khí khảo theo tù. Or maybe gia só gí khẩu tuyển từ. But I can't find convincing google results to support any of those renderings.

Edited by petrklic on 09 January 2012 at 4:33pm

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 Message 39 of 75
09 January 2012 at 6:03pm | IP Logged 
I got a reply from the native Thai speaker:

"It’s not Thai. Sounds to me like Chinese based language."
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zhanglong
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 Message 40 of 75
09 January 2012 at 11:52pm | IP Logged 
It may be Chaozhou dialect. I'll verify later with a native speaker.


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