I waded through all of the dreck that was posted on that site as comments and someone else thinks it’s Turkish as well.
And the more times I listen to it, the less it sounds like anything close to Portuguese.
Paying close attention to the voice of the mother (babysitter? big sis?) in the background, which is most likely to be a normal speaking voice, it’s hard to hear anything Spanish or Portuguese sounding, particularly near the end when she is talking more.
I’m actually kind of surprised that this is taking so long for the collective heads of the 'Dope to figure out. Usually it’s the other way around: amazingly challenging questions getting triple-simulpost-answered in five minutes.
I have a coworker who is Cypriot and went to University in Istanbul…we can’t see the video at work though. I’ll see if she’ll look at it over the weekend and provide a translation…
Just before the smack there’s a decidedly Parisian French sound to it “Il y a _ _ _” I’m guessing little sister is speaking mostly their first language, and older sister an accented French.
I think you might be right. I lived in Tbilisi and it does not sound Georgian to me, but the decor in the apartment could certainly fit in the Caucasus region.
It’s definitely not French. I heard it as maybe part of the Portuguese “melhor” but we’re pretty sure it’s not Portuguese. After several mentions of Turkish, I poked around and found common words like biliyor that sounded like very strong possibilities for a match.
I’m a bit surprised it took that long on these boards to find a Turkish speaker. Looks like the FOAF guess of “Cypriot Turkish” was not too far off, as Cypriot Turkish emanates from Anatolia. Impressive how some people can just pin-point a language like that.
Just missed it. :smack: I just now noticed the thread. Thanks for the name check, anyway, Earl. I can only echo that it’s Turkish. I had a hunch it would be, just from reading the scattered guesses in the first few posts. Every suggestion was quickly ruled out except Turkish, which has a lot of sh sounds. I can’t understand a word the children said, except for the aforementioned küçük. The woman speaks more intelligibly. At one point she says something like “Batan göz istiyor” meaning either ‘She wants to attract attention’ or ‘She wants to be annoying’.
