Name That Language!

[Karch]

Bïraþe i þai don,
aw i ngahn na sed, i øsï lad.
Ug ørrïm ji ngéðamajalgt kï kiyaðøø loi.

Bïraþe, ad jii ug ørrïm ji degt kï ngéðamajal.
Gaj lod i døningt lon ndïn ne kï død dõ koon.
I ðoosï kamd kï nyag loi kïmbõ kïnat,
kïtakad kam ngandg nden,
na kï nyan ndega mad kïta ngandg kïdu tø.

Na mî taa, m'a m'oo takumi kïgo denesewt lom,
lon m'ndool'n a ne, kamm a so kïber kïta m'a m'oo roi.

This is the horribly mangled (due to bad encoding) Mbay bible translation. Doubt any of these special characters are actually in the printed version.

[Travis B.]

I was wondering what linguists from Iceland created that.

[Karch]

Auye then. (But it really looks like Ekari, just with <s>.)

There are actually dialects of Mee (as the speakers call it) with /s/ (usually derived from /t/ before [i], IIRC).

Not surprised, it's a common sound change in the general area. Anyway I've compiled all the Auye equivalents I could find of the Proto-Paniai Lakes forms in Tebay (2018) and my hunch was correct: it shares all sound changes with Ekari (I'd use the endonym but I have a suspicion that it's also the Auye endonym), differing only in minutia such as sporadic voicing in velars (such as in animaga- "to sit" or maga "soil" and high vowel lowering (as can be seen in the Bible translation: Ogatamee "God"). Maybe sometime I'll compile the Auye equivalents of the whole wordlist in Larson & Larson (1972) to see how close exactly it is to Ekari (or, better, if I find an Ekari dictionary online, compare some more words with Auye), but not today, my laziness got the best of me.

[Nortaneous]

This is the horribly mangled (due to bad encoding) Mbay bible translation.

lol rip. yes

[Karch]

Kon taash keewtsok'o danosh t shuutso maants wongr tieti, wongr tiettsok'onowere shawat c'eesho kuriru awntson doozetswotsi t bek'i, C'eeshi bewoki talotsnowere ash na'a artso tbek'i, bíwere b́ tufok b́ borfetso geenz taho tahdek't, b́ gerats awntsi edo eddek'ke b́ teshi. B́ tookonat b́ took s'iron shetsonat sufiyok'o nas'a b́ teshi, bí ááwwotswere taw at'ok'one bo teshi, b́ tufuwotswere taw k'ak'otse wos'wutsts k'aazok'o arkno bo teshi, b́ k'aaronúwere een aats fuundi k'aarok'owiye b́ teshi, B́ k'ani kishon shawat k'eenwotsi detsdek'tni b́ teshi, git weeron shash wotts shiki gorado b́ nonotse b́ keshfere b́ teshi, b́ shiits jami sháánonwere aaw taali aaw sháánok'oyiye b́ teshi.

[Nortaneous]

Kon taash keewtsok'o danosh t shuutso maants wongr tieti, wongr tiettsok'onowere shawat c'eesho kuriru awntson doozetswotsi t bek'i, C'eeshi bewoki talotsnowere ash na'a artso tbek'i, bíwere b́ tufok b́ borfetso geenz taho tahdek't, b́ gerats awntsi edo eddek'ke b́ teshi. B́ tookonat b́ took s'iron shetsonat sufiyok'o nas'a b́ teshi, bí ááwwotswere taw at'ok'one bo teshi, b́ tufuwotswere taw k'ak'otse wos'wutsts k'aazok'o arkno bo teshi, b́ k'aaronúwere een aats fuundi k'aarok'owiye b́ teshi, B́ k'ani kishon shawat k'eenwotsi detsdek'tni b́ teshi, git weeron shash wotts shiki gorado b́ nonotse b́ keshfere b́ teshi, b́ shiits jami sháánonwere aaw taali aaw sháánok'oyiye b́ teshi.

Borna

[Karch]

Borna

Yeah. That's what I get for looking at Bible websites.

[Nortaneous]

Müts'üy püste lyawün yupj. Jun ta'á wine. 'Amá jul pü'ü. Tsjicj way jupj müts'is. Newa malala li ji. Jonopj lyaja jupj lovin. Püste wine mpes 'ücj jonopj lyaja. Malala nin napj lal. Nin mpes mas 'ücj 'yünan. Mas 'amá jul tsjacjam müts'üy mpes.

[Darren]

Central American?

[bradrn]

More specifically, Mixe-Zoquean? Mixe?

[Nortaneous]

Central American?

Yes.

More specifically, Mixe-Zoquean? Mixe?

No.

[Darren]

Macro-Chibchan?

[Nortaneous]

Macro-Chibchan?

No.

[Darren]

Tol?

[Nortaneous]

Tol?

Yes.

[Darren]

Ca'ri c'rek cokat cik cukku Torru, ana amma cukku caat ul ionu a'rupu wo tuwa, wurukot ipira thuput nti icarak co man. Ukkul w'rek wokat cik woccot k'ran itti Olotti ana okin thonat kuthuk ken, no ka'ran ikoccot k'ran itti Thoicang uwo oingkanthet noththok po E'reme.

[Karch]

"Kordofanian".

[Darren]

"Kordofanian".

Yes (well, no, but "yes")

[Karch]

Talodi-Heiban?

[Darren]

Talodi-Heiban?

Yes