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Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:23 pm
by Karch
Heiban?

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 4:30 am
by Darren
Karch wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:23 pmHeiban?
Nope. And on the offchance your next guess is "Talodi", then you're right!

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 5:59 am
by Karch
Lumun?

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 2:45 pm
by Darren
Karch wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 5:59 amLumun?
I don't know how you do it!

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 5:37 pm
by Travis B.
Lemme guess ─ that was from a Bible translation, and Karch reads a lot of Bible translation sites.

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2024 1:05 am
by Darren
Travis B. wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 5:37 pm Lemme guess ─ that was from a Bible translation, and Karch reads a lot of Bible translation sites.
No, it was from a random SIL article ("Lumun Narrative Discourse Analysis" by Timothy Stirtz).

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2024 7:29 am
by Karch
Darren wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 2:45 pm I don't know how you do it!
Having eliminated the Heiban languages, I guessed the only Talodi language that has a bible translation, which was Lumun. I didn't look at the translation before guessing, though, only looking at it afterwards to confirm my guess.
Anyway here's a new text:
Mɨtʼɨ apíyéno, mʉ́ ʉna iya ajepʉ́r, ʉna kʼánʉ́an. Háré, gájayɨ́ an khɨ́ birí abʼigín gɨ́ ʉn yalʉ́ gán ɨmʉ́ tolá, kurán tochá jepʉ́r, gɨ́ thorobɨ́l ána wiyú, an dʼʉkʼʉ́ es akhʉgʉ́, gájayɨ́ an kʼásá ngwál gʉan. Tene, gájayɨ́ ʉn dʼʉkʼʉ́ gán birí mʉ́ tolá yalʉ́, mʉ́ ana gɨl thorobɨ́l, ana metɨan. Gɨ́ me, gájayɨ́ an dʼʉkʼʉ́ birí khɨ́, mʉ́ ana gɨl thorobɨ́l, ana khʉgʉ́-es, awiya.

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2024 8:14 am
by bradrn
South American? Amazonian?

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2024 2:33 pm
by Karch
bradrn wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2024 8:14 am South American? Amazonian?
Neither.

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2024 11:30 pm
by Nortaneous
<ɨ> and <ʉ> = Africa. Nilotic?

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 4:35 am
by Karch
Nortaneous wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2024 11:30 pm <ɨ> and <ʉ> = Africa. Nilotic?
Not Nilotic, but it's indeed spoken in Africa.

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 4:41 am
by bradrn
Chadic then?

EDIT: looks doubtful on further investigation. How about Southern Bantoid (excluding Bantu)?

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 6:12 am
by Karch
bradrn wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 4:41 am Chadic then?

EDIT: looks doubtful on further investigation. How about Southern Bantoid (excluding Bantu)?
Neither.

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 11:44 am
by Zju
Afroasiatic, perchance? Berber or East African AA?

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2024 3:53 am
by Karch
Zju wrote: Sat Nov 16, 2024 11:44 am Afroasiatic, perchance? Berber or East African AA?
Nope.

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 1:01 pm
by Zju
Hold on, do I spy both ejectives and implosives? Is it spoken in Eastern Africa, in the whereabouts of Ethiopia, Kenya or Tanzania?

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 1:10 pm
by Karch
Zju wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2024 1:01 pm Hold on, do I spy both ejectives and implosives? Is it spoken in Eastern Africe, in the whereabouts of Ethiopia, Kenya or Tanzania?
Yes, and yes, it's indeed spoken in one of these countries!

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 1:24 pm
by Zju
Is this the original orthography, and more specifically, does it have close central vowels?
Is it spoken in Ethiopia? The paucity of wals data suggests it's most likely to be there.

Re: Name That Language!

Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 1:31 pm
by Karch
Zju wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2024 1:24 pm Is this the original orthography, and more specifically, does it have close central vowels?
Is it spoken in Ethiopia? The paucity of wals data suggests it's most likely to be there.
Yes, this is the original orthography, but <ɨ> and <ʉ> do not stand for close central vowels. It is however spoken in Ethiopia.