OK, I guess you are doing the next text, then.Karch wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 5:53 amHere's a text, transcribed into the IPA.mi kue toeba. tɔŋkita eti kue taoebe. gi buɟejebiŋkɤbe. mi cɔgegantitebe. ekweɟalle abemoibe. ŋi maŋka ga aŋgibete belebe. inenegi kueilowabegi kuburaŋega. gi ecɛlletucebe. tɔŋkita gi tukiriaŋega kueitekwatebe. lua cilemegi ukitteɛge. ice gi nariɛleetaŋegirage. uemegi ɤŋgamameba bencame ati. onotagilelemba etiʔnde ati.
Now this one is interesting. There seem to be no fricatives, and plenty of stops. To me that suggests either Dravidian, Australian or Great Andamanese. But it can’t be Australian, as you have a voicing contrast. Can’t be Great Andamanese either, since I already did that one, and so I know it looks completely different. Yet it can’t be Dravidian either, since those languages don’t tend to have vowels like /ɤ/.
…OK, so let’s use PHOIBLE now, always a good guide when dealing with more interesting phonologies. Turns out that there’s quite a few more clusters of languages with no fricatives — a big one in the Amazon, and another smaller one in eastern Africa. Searching for both /ɟ/ and /ɤ/ also shows a bunch of Amazonian languages. So I’m going to guess: is this language from somewhere in the Amazon region?
(fusijui asked if we could go into a bit more detail about our conclusions, so I decided to do that here, which is why this post is a bit longer than normal.)
