Name That Language!

[Birdlang]

Yes it’s Hindi. @Nortaneous and @dewrad got it right.

I got that from the Wikipedia article on pigeons.

[bradrn]

I got that from the Wikipedia article on pigeons.

Do you have a link? I can’t find it anywhere.

[Birdlang]

I got that from the Wikipedia article on pigeons.

Do you have a link? I can’t find it anywhere.

Here
https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/कबूतर

[dewrad]

I got that from the Wikipedia article on pigeons.

Do you have a link? I can’t find it anywhere.

Here
https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/कबूतर

Can I just clarify that making up your own transcriptions really isn't in the spirit of the game. Otherwise we end up with nonsense like "दा दी अनृकेनुङ् दृ अङ्गबौर्न् व्युर्द उंत् दृ ग्लैष्न् उंत् उन्वेरोइस्न्लिष्न् रेह्त आल मित्ग्लीद दृ ग्मैञ्षफ्त् दृ मेञ्ष्न् दी ग्रुन्द्लाग फों फ्राइहाइत् गरेह्तिकाइत् उंत् फ्रीद्न् इं दृ वेल्त् बिल्देत्"

[Birdlang]

Ok sorry

[dewrad]

This should be easy:

holaiez naφoθ ziazi maraz maw sialχweiz awiz ewisθo zeronaiθ ziwai aker tawarzio wanalasial zeronai morinail holaiezi φokiasiale zeronaiθ ewisθo towerona rom haralio ziwai eptezio arai tiz φoke ziwai awiz sialχwiz marazm awiz aomai

[bradrn]

This should be easy:

Evidently you have a different definition of ‘easy’ to me — I don’t recognise it at all. (Although I keep on thinking this feels suspiciously familiar… not that that helps.)

holaiez naφoθ ziazi maraz maw sialχweiz awiz ewisθo zeronaiθ ziwai aker tawarzio wanalasial zeronai morinail holaiezi φokiasiale zeronaiθ ewisθo towerona rom haralio ziwai eptezio arai tiz φoke ziwai awiz sialχwiz marazm awiz aomai

Clarification: ⟨φ⟩ = /ɸ/, right?

[Travis B.]

I guessed correctly that it was one of two languages I was thinking of, but since I looked to confirm my guess, I can't mention it here.

[bradrn]

holaiez naφoθ ziazi maraz maw sialχweiz awiz ewisθo zeronaiθ ziwai aker tawarzio wanalasial zeronai morinail holaiezi φokiasiale zeronaiθ ewisθo towerona rom haralio ziwai eptezio arai tiz φoke ziwai awiz sialχwiz marazm awiz aomai

All right, I’ll make a guess even though I still don’t have a clue… is it Indo-European?

[dewrad]

This should be easy:

Evidently you have a different definition of ‘easy’ to me — I don’t recognise it at all. (Although I keep on thinking this feels suspiciously familiar… not that that helps.)

holaiez naφoθ ziazi maraz maw sialχweiz awiz ewisθo zeronaiθ ziwai aker tawarzio wanalasial zeronai morinail holaiezi φokiasiale zeronaiθ ewisθo towerona rom haralio ziwai eptezio arai tiz φoke ziwai awiz sialχwiz marazm awiz aomai

Clarification: ⟨φ⟩ = /ɸ/, right?

I cannot vouch for the phonemic nature of the transcription used.

All right, I’ll make a guess even though I still don’t have a clue… is it Indo-European?

No.

[bradrn]

This should be easy:

Evidently you have a different definition of ‘easy’ to me — I don’t recognise it at all. (Although I keep on thinking this feels suspiciously familiar… not that that helps.)

holaiez naφoθ ziazi maraz maw sialχweiz awiz ewisθo zeronaiθ ziwai aker tawarzio wanalasial zeronai morinail holaiezi φokiasiale zeronaiθ ewisθo towerona rom haralio ziwai eptezio arai tiz φoke ziwai awiz sialχwiz marazm awiz aomai

Clarification: ⟨φ⟩ = /ɸ/, right?

I cannot vouch for the phonemic nature of the transcription used.

Let me rephrase my question then: in the text you have given, is the grapheme φ used to represent the sound more commonly denoted using the IPA as ɸ, irrespective of whether it is phonemic or not?

[Travis B.]

Let me rephrase my question then: in the text you have given, is the grapheme φ used to represent the sound more commonly denoted using the IPA as ɸ, irrespective of whether it is phonemic or not?

⟨φ⟩ and ⟨ɸ⟩ are pretty much interchangeable, which one is used being a matter of taste on the part of whoever designed an orthography.

[Travis B.]

Spoiler!

More: show

One note is that at the time this was written, that letter did not have the value it has in more recent language varieties.

[bradrn]

Let me rephrase my question then: in the text you have given, is the grapheme φ used to represent the sound more commonly denoted using the IPA as ɸ, irrespective of whether it is phonemic or not?

⟨φ⟩ and ⟨ɸ⟩ are pretty much interchangeable, which one is used being a matter of taste on the part of whoever designed an orthography.

True; I suppose it wasn’t a particularly good question in the first place.

Spoiler!

More: show

One note is that at the time this was written, that letter did not have the value it has in more recent language varieties.

I’m not entirely sure why you consider this a spoiler, given that it didn’t help me at all.

[dewrad]

Evidently you have a different definition of ‘easy’ to me — I don’t recognise it at all. (Although I keep on thinking this feels suspiciously familiar… not that that helps.)



Clarification: ⟨φ⟩ = /ɸ/, right?

I cannot vouch for the phonemic nature of the transcription used.

Let me rephrase my question then: in the text you have given, is the grapheme φ used to represent the sound more commonly denoted using the IPA as ɸ, irrespective of whether it is phonemic or not?

Let me rephrase my response then - the orthography is given as-is, I do not have enough information to comment confidently on precisely what the graphemes represent (I'm willing to hang my hat on "bilabial", however). Sensu stricto, I should have referred to it as a transliteration rather than a transcription, if that helps any.

[bradrn]

Sensu stricto, I should have referred to it as a transliteration rather than a transcription, if that helps any.

Now that’s a spoiler — now we know it’s normally written in a non-Latin script! So: is it spoken in Asia?

[dewrad]

Sensu stricto, I should have referred to it as a transliteration rather than a transcription, if that helps any.

Now that’s a spoiler — now we know it’s normally written in a non-Latin script! So: is it spoken in Asia?

No.

[bradrn]

Sensu stricto, I should have referred to it as a transliteration rather than a transcription, if that helps any.

Now that’s a spoiler — now we know it’s normally written in a non-Latin script! So: is it spoken in Asia?

No.

Northern Africa then?

[dewrad]

Now that’s a spoiler — now we know it’s normally written in a non-Latin script! So: is it spoken in Asia?

No.

Northern Africa then?

Also no.

[Kuchigakatai]

Phonotactically that language looks like bronze-age Mediterranean IE to me. Or at least it reminds me a lot of Proto-Italic/Celtic/Hellenic, with some phonemes removed. Maybe the "φ" was literally Φ in the original.