Name That Language!

[Nortaneous]

Yangna balna yaka dî isau yangna kâtang dâkima disana yaka, isparah, kîdak tusnaka balna; yang kau dî wâk, ulnaka balna laih yâtasa, yâ sumaltasa dadang katka, isparah, kîdak tukwanaka bîtah kauh laih amangka yang kâtang bahangh mâdi kat bik yang tâkit kau yapa yawayang yaka balna yamti. Yapa bik kûkahki disana bik tukwingka dadang alaska yaka damaska kau tukwai yaka dâkima disana karak. Dî anakat kurhpi yau yawi yaka damaska yau yâmak kau yawi wilis, wabul balna kawatpi yâna pahkâti yangna yâ alatang.

[bradrn]

Yangna balna yaka dî isau yangna kâtang dâkima disana yaka, isparah, kîdak tusnaka balna; yang kau dî wâk, ulnaka balna laih yâtasa, yâ sumaltasa dadang katka, isparah, kîdak tukwanaka bîtah kauh laih amangka yang kâtang bahangh mâdi kat bik yang tâkit kau yapa yawayang yaka balna yamti. Yapa bik kûkahki disana bik tukwingka dadang alaska yaka damaska kau tukwai yaka dâkima disana karak. Dî anakat kurhpi yau yawi yaka damaska yau yâmak kau yawi wilis, wabul balna kawatpi yâna pahkâti yangna yâ alatang.

Yet another Sino-Tibetan language?

(If not that, it’s probably Austronesian.)

[Darren]

It wouldn't be Papuan by any chance would it?

[Nortaneous]

It's not Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, or Papuan.

[Darren]

From the Americas?

[Nortaneous]

From the Americas?

Yes.

[Darren]

From the Americas?

Yes.

South?

[Nortaneous]

From the Americas?

Yes.

South?

No.

[bradrn]

Chibchan?

[Darren]

Yes.

South?

No.

North?

[Darren]

My next guess will be central.

[Nortaneous]

Chibchan?

No.

North?

Central.

[bradrn]

Just noticed the ⟨i a u⟩ vowel system. Could it be Uto-Aztecan?

[Darren]

Totonacan?

[Nortaneous]

Just noticed the ⟨i a u⟩ vowel system. Could it be Uto-Aztecan?

No.

Totonacan?

No.

[Darren]

Okay, so not Chibchan, not Uto-Aztecan, not Totonacan. There's no way it's Mayan and it definitely ain't Mixe-Zoquean. Misumalpan?

[bradrn]

Yuman–Cochimi?

[Nortaneous]

Okay, so not Chibchan, not Uto-Aztecan, not Totonacan. There's no way it's Mayan and it definitely ain't Mixe-Zoquean. Misumalpan?

Yes.

[bradrn]

Ulwa?

[Darren]

Miskito?