http://www.break.com/index/little-girl-smacks-sister-on-webcam-1980408
The reason I’m curious is I was distractedly watching it, and it took me a while before I could tell they weren’t speaking English instead of the audio quality just being bad. I can’t place it.
I have no idea what that language was but it was hilarious.
They’re really difficult to understand. I thought the little girl’s song began with “a la,” and I thought I heard a “tanto,” and “o,” and a lot of “sh” sounds, so I’ll guess Portuguese.
WAG: Pretty sure it’s Portuguese. It sounds close to Spanish (I think the first girl starts off saying “mumblemumble te gustas” or something close to that) but isn’t quite it, and the amount of “sh” sounds at the end of words is a tell-tale sign.
I don’t speak Portuguese though, so…
I’m thinking Russian. Mr. Panda thinks some kinda Middle Eastern language.
A couple of the comments on that website indicate the girls are Turkish, but they don’t exactly say how they know that.
Sounds eastern European (yeah, I know. That covers a lot of territory…)
That is not a Slavic language, and certainly no Russian, so most of Eastern Europe is ruled out. The first bit made me think Portuguese too but overall I think it might be Turkish, perhaps.
My gut reaction was Romanian.
It’s not Portuguese.
My first thought was Farsi, or possibly Turkish.
My WAG is Romanian.
Is anyone else getting flashbacks to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”?
That’s an awfully girly orang utan, then.
Definitely not Romanian. At first I thought it’s a slavic language (mostly due to their accent), but at some point it started sounding like Turkish. Maybe some language from Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaidjan, …)?
I’m 99% certain it’s not any Slavic language, and you can definitely rule out Hungarian, as well.
You do know, of course, that Roumanian is not a Slavic language; it is a Romance language like Spanish, French, etc. And Roumanian was in fact my first guess.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that since he/she speaks Hungarian/Magyar, that he/she knows it’s not Slavic or even Indo-European.
I am surprised, usually on the SDMB people positively identify “what language is this?” posts within 3-4 replies. If you held a gun to my head I would guess Farsi, but I’m not sure.
Not Farsi (Persian), and I don’t think it’s Urdu or Pashto either.