Zompist Bboard Again

the padre nuestro thing is commonly used to test drive conlangs and, well, it was in verse. Huh, I was unaware of this. I think that the approach of having a set of languages one borrows from in order to make an IAL easy to understand prior to knowing it is probably only going to work if a) your se...

Ares Land wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2023 3:47 am A lot of what I got from the second text is stuff people already guessed

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Just figured out from the statistics cog means 'middle'
Tapa - hill
nama - people
omninama - everyone

mici and on are grammatical, though I'm not sure of the meaning.

These are all correct.

I vote circle for p because it's bouba, triangle for t and square for k because k is "duller" than t, so the pointier shape should go to t.

Text 3 Nihog JA istan CPE tostan FA wahit AR te FR IT MN PA ES eg KK UZ arokya SA lo MY kana HI PA atet HI KK PA TR ni JA YO alam ML AR . On FA ti YO iresyati SA , sapap AR FA UZ is EN on FA tostan FA seta FF kipa HA wa AR UZ VI tun YO sapap AR FA UZ is EN mekas AGR BN MY FR DE HI IT JA KO MR PT PA ...

And here you can see which exact words come from which language. Text 1 Nag VI tumesa OM kal TA , o FF TR YO kal TA korepiye KK lo MY tegkelam ML co VI supere LA te FR IT MN PA ES siti EN Mi EN FF IT MR PT YO wahit AR lo MY nante AK nante AK co VI ... wel EN pe MY nama OM esnat RU pe MY Mi EN FF IT ...

I've made a graph to get a better overview of how many words each language has. The gray scale bars show how big a share each language had of the words in the three texts, with the black bar showing data for all three texts added together. The magenta bars show how much of the entire dictionary (as ...

And for the third text: Language (abbreviation) no. of occurrences/total no. of words = per cent Akan (AK) 0/211 = 0,0% Ancient Greek (AGR) 7/211 = 3,3% Bambara (BM) 3/211 = 1,4% Bengali (BN) 6/211 = 2,8% Burmese (MY) 15/211 = 7,1% English (EN) 17/211 = 8,1% Filipino (FIL) 9/211 = 4,3% French (FR) 2...

And here comes the same statistics for the second text. Language (abbreviation) no. of occurrences/total no. of words = per cent Akan (AK) 8/268 = 3,0% Ancient Greek (AGR) 12/268 = 4,5% Bambara (BM) 9/268 = 3,4% Bengali (BN) 3/268 = 1,1% Burmese (MY) 20/268 = 7,5% English (EN) 20/268 = 7,5% Filipino...

Hwhatting should theoretically be able to understand 93,2% of the first text.

I'll post a little statistics about the languages occurring in the texts. Here's about the first text: Language (abbreviation) no. of occurrences/total no. of words = per cent Akan (AK) 5/368 = 1,4% Ancient Greek (AGR) 4/368 = 1,1% Bambara (BM) 10/368 = 2,7% Bengali (BN) 6/368 = 1,6% Burmese (MY) 12...

Thanks for playing everyone. Any additional tries are still welcome.

I've come to the conclusion that I need to be even more careful when choosing which language to borrow a given word from, and avoid those options that would result in quite an unrecognizable word.

initally, solid zero after a bit, in text 3 i feel as if i can guess a few things, maybe up to a 1 or 2... are we talking about alcoholic drinks and rice in japan? gohan and sake suggests so. Yes, but gohan and sake are not actual words in this language; they were present already in the original En...

Hm, I recognize a few words. Mostly the last text, I recognized Nihogistan almost immediately, so I could make out a few words in that text. The other two I can't understand. omnis looks like it should be 'all', alam could be 'world'. Now that we know what the second text is, I'll try and decipher ...

Familiar-sounding words may be deceptive. For instance, there is a Finnish surname Aaltonen which sounds just like German Aaltonnen 'eel kegs', but of course has nothing to do with either eels or kegs. Rather, it appears to be Aalto , which is also a Finnish surname, with the suffix -nen found in v...

Imralu wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:49 am

zompist wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 5:57 pm

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mikrohaiwan - mini-bay?

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I was thinking microbe. Micro-animal ... from Arabic for animal.

So close. It's actually

I guessed basically nothing, except: Text 2 looks like it's the beginning of the "Hobbit"; hopit is the giveaway, and then things I expected come along, like the repetition of "hole". Continuing to guess would have felt like cheating because I know the text. That's correct. I wa...

Fulani - French 'someone'? ± No, but it's the Swahili word for "some". :shock: piskos - fish? ✗ mikro - micro or small ✓ Small mikrohaiwan - mini-bay? (Greek + Chinese) ✗ wan - one? ✓ Specifially the indefinite pronoun fenetre - window ✓ koritore - corridor? ✓ tunel - tunnel ✓ topikal - t...

ial are always looking for the magic recognition, that allows to understand a language never learned... fortunately, here I don't understand anything, it sounds good, like a foreign language... Lol, allright. :lol: i read all three texts and understood nothing except the word Nihogistan—and even th...

Oh, and you can discuss things with each other if you want. But please use the [morə] tags when you refer to words in Omni-kan, in case there's someone who wants to make guesses without any spoilers.

I've kept working with my conlang Omni-kan and have finally translated three texts into it. All the words have been borrowed from natlangs and I want to test how much you can understand without much/any prior knowledge of the language. (Allthough I'm not expecting very good results.) So if you want ...