Ghi nialeusi calirfu vuvaó oro homini giu vaniha, píni harniu chinini durrini giu tuciáini niunvuní nevai, a urniulagi edó ur er fihnia.
Foioni goni niuciuni epirroni riniuni gavciuni u aleiguni ur gialragii a giuciuroni a, giofigioni hopo unifír giu niniór a horniaurniai, giuvur hopmonfinniu tucifunrigpurfu goni erroni hor goni ofcioni.
Fogi munniorri faurru goni giuciuroni a gavunfigiuni muciohghipigioni ur unifi Giuhghiciniaór, niar gianifarniaór iglerri giu niní, hogon, niuhnio, aiaopi, nugacaór, omarraór mogáfahi o giu heighaun ofci árgiogu, ociacur riniaorrig o nioniaig, monianiaór uhorrópahi, riniapaurfo o heighaun ofci horgianiaór.
Vurchipár maiaó erri vuvagi giu hava a tuciuní; Roú, niar vunleurní, ghi píni unihaniafi rhipmisi giug purré. Ug marlearro Vurniunighio anio hagópufcioni vico uhníenifavi devai a tuciáo; isocivi i nie huciaio hirono.
Mystery language sketch
Mystery language sketch
This is just a sketch of a silly little idea I had the other day. Just for fun, I wanted to show it and ask what you think when you see it. Can you guess what this is? Can you guess how it's pronounced?
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Re: Mystery language sketch
Well, 'homini' kind of jumps at me and it looks sort of a Southern Italian dialect. But I don't think that works. I'd say the frequent i's mark palatized consonants? The orthography looks Gaelic anyway -- but I know next to nothing about that.Qwynegold wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 3:22 am This is just a sketch of a silly little idea I had the other day. Just for fun, I wanted to show it and ask what you think when you see it. Can you guess what this is? Can you guess how it's pronounced?
Ghi nialeusi calirfu vuvaó oro homini giu vaniha, píni harniu chinini durrini giu tuciáini niunvuní nevai, a urniulagi edó ur er fihnia.
Foioni goni niuciuni epirroni riniuni gavciuni u aleiguni ur gialragii a giuciuroni a, giofigioni hopo unifír giu niniór a horniaurniai, giuvur hopmonfinniu tucifunrigpurfu goni erroni hor goni ofcioni.
Fogi munniorri faurru goni giuciuroni a gavunfigiuni muciohghipigioni ur unifi Giuhghiciniaór, niar gianifarniaór iglerri giu niní, hogon, niuhnio, aiaopi, nugacaór, omarraór mogáfahi o giu heighaun ofci árgiogu, ociacur riniaorrig o nioniaig, monianiaór uhorrópahi, riniapaurfo o heighaun ofci horgianiaór.
Vurchipár maiaó erri vuvagi giu hava a tuciuní; Roú, niar vunleurní, ghi píni unihaniafi rhipmisi giug purré. Ug marlearro Vurniunighio anio hagópufcioni vico uhníenifavi devai a tuciáo; isocivi i nie huciaio hirono.
Re: Mystery language sketch
Acutes seem to appear in only final syllables, so I suppose they mark stress, and therefore this is much closer to Italian than to Gaelic.
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Google Translate thinks this is Corsican. Unfortunately, homini is just a coincidence.
Yes. I'll give a hint: it's palatal something when modifying c, g and n, and when not modifying any consonant.
You're both in the right direction, but not quite.
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Re: Mystery language sketch
I'm going out on a limb here, but is there any relationship with Etruscan? (the consonant clusters and f's and v's are suggestive)
Re: Mystery language sketch
Nope, now it's getting colder.
Oh, and we can call this language Hinia unimisog for now.
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Re: Mystery language sketch
A relative of Greek? (But then where's <g> from, seeing as how there's no <b d>?)
Duaj teibohnggoe kyoe' quaqtoeq lucj lhaj k'yoejdej noeyn tucj.
K'yoejdaq fohm q'ujdoe duaj teibohnggoen dlehq lucj.
Teijp'vq. Teijp'vq. Teijp'vq. Teijp'vq. Teijp'vq. Teijp'vq. Teijp'vq.
K'yoejdaq fohm q'ujdoe duaj teibohnggoen dlehq lucj.
Teijp'vq. Teijp'vq. Teijp'vq. Teijp'vq. Teijp'vq. Teijp'vq. Teijp'vq.
Re: Mystery language sketch
Is this name meaningful in terms of identifying the language, or did you just choose it at random?
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Re: Mystery language sketch
Hm. I tried figuring out the proper names (Giuhghiciniaór, Roú, Vurniunighio) but to no avail. Maybe there's some kind of inflection and agreement going on: ur unifi Giuhghiciniaór, niar gianifarniaór [...] nugacaór, omarraór
Goni and giu are quite common...
Besides, that, there's not much I can tell. Could we have the text you've translated? (I've tried a few common ones, but I wasn't convinced).
Goni and giu are quite common...
Besides, that, there's not much I can tell. Could we have the text you've translated? (I've tried a few common ones, but I wasn't convinced).
Re: Mystery language sketch
It certainly looks Romance - Italian or Spanish. But of course that might just be because you're emulating romance, rather than because it is.
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"A sketch of a silly idea" suggests that this is not a finished conlang with inflectional paradigms and fully-fleshed out syntax. So I think we're barking up the wrong tree trying to parse these lines as sentences in a Romance conlang. My guess is that the text was generated by applying some cipher to an existing language, Romance or otherwise.
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Re: Mystery language sketch
It's a modern-day descendant of a non-Latin Italic variety (such as Oscan or Umbrian) written with an Italian-influenced orthography, and likely with a hefty amount of phonological, lexical, and morphosyntactic influence from Latin and its Italo-Romance descendants.
Re: Mystery language sketch
Actually there is D. In the word durrini in the first sentence.Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:10 pm A relative of Greek? (But then where's <g> from, seeing as how there's no <b d>?)
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Re: Mystery language sketch
Yes.
Lol, sorry yes. Can you crack it?Moose-tache wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 8:01 am "A sketch of a silly idea" suggests that this is not a finished conlang with inflectional paradigms and fully-fleshed out syntax. So I think we're barking up the wrong tree trying to parse these lines as sentences in a Romance conlang. My guess is that the text was generated by applying some cipher to an existing language, Romance or otherwise.
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Re: Mystery language sketch
What's really throwing me is "a" both before and after commas.
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Re: Mystery language sketch
Just popping in to say I'd love to see more of this. I started working on a medieval descendant of Etruscan some time last year, but the extent corpus of attested Etruscan is pretty scant considering how much literature was once written in it. I had to make inferences and borrow from Latin to fill in the gaps. Might still be worth picking up again.
Can we at least get a rough gloss of this text, or a translation?
Can we at least get a rough gloss of this text, or a translation?
Re: Mystery language sketch
It's actually a cypher. So I'm wondering if anyone can crack it. I'll give a few hints:
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Re: Mystery language sketch
When you say
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(Also, are you using the term ‘cipher’ in a formal, cryptographic sense, or are you using it more loosely to encompass any type of encryption?)
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Yeah, it's really /j(i)/. And it's a cypher in the sense of letter substitution.
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