Name That Language!

[Karch]

anó wadí i ulitố a ăy inumudík wadí ta dinúm a na kagián a si wadí ta báwat wáńawańa. kagí na wadí adióy kokodiáń ko wadí ta ańăyán ko a nadíd. anó wadí ta pabilabileyán a ăy nakíta wadí siá ta oló na ugsá. anó wadí kinagimét na ăy sinakbítan na wadí hańgán inumudík ta bilé di a. adióy ilëgsé na wadí i oló na ugsá a ăy awán dën lumëlagsé. ńinumuyót wadí ta tëńéd na. sa dimáan wadí na ulitốa ăy makíta wadí ta lamán ta alidúkën a ăy mëgikëikë́h i ópeń a.

[Darren]

<f g> /N T/

Ah yes of course that would of been my 40th guess

[Karch]

<f g> /N T/

Huh, so the chart was wrong - this is even weirder than I thought!

[Travis B.]

Did Moses Merrill paste letters to a dartboard and throw a dart at them whenever he needed a letter for a phoneme?

[bradrn]

I see you conveniently elided the bit about ‘Sesur Dkustus’, which might have given us a bit of a hint.

anó wadí i ulitố a ăy inumudík wadí ta dinúm a na kagián a si wadí ta báwat wáńawańa. kagí na wadí adióy kokodiáń ko wadí ta ańăyán ko a nadíd. anó wadí ta pabilabileyán a ăy nakíta wadí siá ta oló na ugsá. anó wadí kinagimét na ăy sinakbítan na wadí hańgán inumudík ta bilé di a. adióy ilëgsé na wadí i oló na ugsá a ăy awán dën lumëlagsé. ńinumuyót wadí ta tëńéd na. sa dimáan wadí na ulitốa ăy makíta wadí ta lamán ta alidúkën a ăy mëgikëikë́h i ópeń a.

Papuan?

[Travis B.]

I see you conveniently elided the bit about ‘Sesur Dkustus’, which might have given us a bit of a hint.

I found it just by googling those words, so eliding them was a good idea.

[bradrn]

I see you conveniently elided the bit about ‘Sesur Dkustus’, which might have given us a bit of a hint.

I found it just by googling those words, so eliding them was a good idea.

I can find it by Googling ‘nlheraskonewere’, too. (Googling is forbidden anyway.)

[Karch]

Papuan?

No.

[Nortaneous]

Philippine?

Did Moses Merrill paste letters to a dartboard and throw a dart at them whenever he needed a letter for a phoneme?

The Meeker orthographies were optimized for standard printing and avoidance of digraphs and (because the point was to develop literacy in Ioway/etc. without necessarily literacy in English) not at all optimized for crosslinguistic consistency.

[Karch]

Philippine?

Yes.

[Darren]

A Central Philippine language?

[Karch]

A Central Philippine language?

No.

[Zju]

Is it spoken on the island of Luzon?

[Karch]

Is it spoken on the island of Luzon?

Yes.

[Zju]

Is it a north Luzon language, such as Kankanaey or Ibanag?

[Karch]

Is it a north Luzon language, such as Kankanaey or Ibanag?

It is a north Luzon language, but neither Kankanaey or Ibanag.

[Zju]

Arta?

[Karch]

Arta?

No.

[fusijui]

The Philippines never got as much love as they deserved, in runs of this game that I can remember -- good to see this now

(Of course, I apparently don't love them enough either, and have no clue on how to field-spot them.)

[Nortaneous]

NE Luzon? If so, Casiguran Dumagat? (or the other one that Glottolog groups with it, Nagtipunan)

(Of course, I apparently don't love them enough either, and have no clue on how to field-spot them.)

Lots of /g/, no voice assimilation in clusters.