i agree with indigenous north american, but i’m almost 100% sure this isn’t eskaleut, there are far too many affricates, too high a presence of /w/, no familiar verb endings, and also lack of clear gemination and long vowels. i would guess algic or iroquoian
Guessing along before reading the comments is my favourite part of these quizzes — the affricates and /w/ pattern had me in the wrong family entirely. It’s a good reminder of 学然后知不足, one only learns how much one doesn’t know after starting to learn. Thanks for keeping this series going, Simon.
I want to say it is a North American indigenous language perhaps in the Aleut-Eskimo family.
i agree with indigenous north american, but i’m almost 100% sure this isn’t eskaleut, there are far too many affricates, too high a presence of /w/, no familiar verb endings, and also lack of clear gemination and long vowels. i would guess algic or iroquoian
I think it has /p/, which would rule out most Iroquoian languages.
Something Native American?
Here’s a clue, it’s an Algonquian language.
So it is something Native American?
Yes
Taking Simon’s hint about Algonquian language I tried opening that language family but it won’t open. Anyone else had the same experience?
Guessing along before reading the comments is my favourite part of these quizzes — the affricates and /w/ pattern had me in the wrong family entirely. It’s a good reminder of 学然后知不足, one only learns how much one doesn’t know after starting to learn. Thanks for keeping this series going, Simon.
The mystery language is Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, an Eastern Algonquian language spoken in New Brunswick in Canada and Maine in the USA.
I live in New Brunswick I should have known!! Oh well!