Zompist Bboard Again

Spoken in Mexico? If yes, Oto-Manguean?

It is indeed Musgu.

No.

Yes.

It is indeed Biu-Mandara B, but not Majera.

No.

No.

No.

It isn't Bura-Higi.

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 6:34 am I must say, I am completely stumped, so I guess I’ll have to resort to guessing subgroups randomly… is it Wandala–Mafa? (In Blench’s classification, that is.)

No.

/βuŋ sʰɑːʀ/ <Vhung s’ar’> /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> /p b t d k g ʔ/ <p b t d k g q> /β f s sʰ~z̥ ʒ ʝ ɣ χ h/ <v f s s’ z y g’ x’ x> /l ʎ w/ <l y’ w> /r ʀ/ <r r’> /i iː ʉ ʉː u uː ʏ ʏː ʊ ʊː e eː o oː ɛ ɛː œ œː ɔ ɔː æ æː ɑ ɑː ɒ ɒː/ <hi i hiu iu hu u hui ui huo uo he e ho o hee ee hoe oe hoo oo hae ae ha a hao ao...

It is Biu-Mandara, but not Gude or Lamang.

It is indeed a Chadic language.

No, it isn't Austronesian.

Afti paŋ a va gaini sugoi n’a guɗa, gaini evek na seyemni a sisiɗa viya, gaini luwuŋ n’a ali pinzibani kiini kiini, gaini na seyemni a na war alini zi wii dama, a za nθa lai. Afti a diya sugoi na gaini gûɗi, evek na pinzibani kiini kiini viya sisiɗa pini seyemni gaini luwoŋai n’a wa alini gaini sey...

Is it a Takama language? If yes, Nyamwezi?

Is it Tswana?

It is indeed Nyungar! The oddities are due to modern Nyungar being a badly-reconstructed mix of various dialects or me spelling some placenames (Tallerack, Pinjerup) in English.

Here's my attempt at transcribing the first 2 sentences of the text in the standardized (non-phonemic English-based) orthography. I had to guess the spelling of some words (couldn't find them in any dictionaries), next to which I put a small question mark. Hopefully this helps you more than the orig...

No.