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Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 9:31 pm
by Tropylium
That would probably be a correct answer in the spirit of the game even if not the letter; so sure, I award thee Nine Points (points not redeemable for cash).
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:13 pm
by fusijui
Tropylium wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 9:31 pm
That
would probably be a correct answer in the spirit of the game even if not the letter; so sure, I award thee Nine Points (points not redeemable for cash).
Hey, I was the cleversticks who re-booted this thread, so if I really wanted to play it that way, I had my chance and blew it
Actually, I find great advantages in this outcome: My dusty old Mongolian is still
so good that I can (almost) read related languages without even realizing it! YEAH!!!! I ROCK!!!
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 6:00 am
by Karch
Kalauru ere ateasa waʼa ae uta gi watu mutu lafu. Ana beʼu to saunu, were nau welafu. Laga mutu ere kalauru naʼu baunu meti gata woʼi lafu, di keta mahi ama laneʼe mutu woʼi. Rate mutu woʼi ho nehe baunu, deri laneʼe ana aga do to saga. Baunu ene hai naʼu hau labiʼi. Kafu bila mutu woʼi ho nehe baunu. Geribata kalauru saga, ani tanehe hau saregini. Gi asa raurau laneʼe hau ma deidei wau, gi kote laneʼe hausaʼi hau laku. Kalauru ere ira sarehe hau ma bane, ani ma busu u isi tina. Hau dafuru, gi ira hau laku do ailemi ma taa wau. Ana oho kalauru ere afi ma gata wau, oho laka wata-ira waʼa hai key ere ma guba tina, taranau nigeʼe nigeʼe gini, seu naʼu saʼi rau.
This one indeed looks like an Oceanic language from the Solomon islands, but it isn't. Is it a Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian language?
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 6:39 am
by bradrn
Karch wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 6:00 am
Kalauru ere ateasa waʼa ae uta gi watu mutu lafu. Ana beʼu to saunu, were nau welafu. Laga mutu ere kalauru naʼu baunu meti gata woʼi lafu, di keta mahi ama laneʼe mutu woʼi. Rate mutu woʼi ho nehe baunu, deri laneʼe ana aga do to saga. Baunu ene hai naʼu hau labiʼi. Kafu bila mutu woʼi ho nehe baunu. Geribata kalauru saga, ani tanehe hau saregini. Gi asa raurau laneʼe hau ma deidei wau, gi kote laneʼe hausaʼi hau laku. Kalauru ere ira sarehe hau ma bane, ani ma busu u isi tina. Hau dafuru, gi ira hau laku do ailemi ma taa wau. Ana oho kalauru ere afi ma gata wau, oho laka wata-ira waʼa hai key ere ma guba tina, taranau nigeʼe nigeʼe gini, seu naʼu saʼi rau.
This one indeed looks like an Oceanic language from the Solomon islands, but it isn't. Is it a Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian language?
No, it is not a Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian language. (You’ve gotten slightly closer, though.)
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 12:07 pm
by Karch
is it at least Austronesian?
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 2:33 pm
by Qwynegold
Karch wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2020 1:11 pm
It's indeed Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec, written in the new orthography, which uses various punctuation marks for the tones, acute accent for ballistic syllables, and <ɇ> for what's presumably /ǝ/.
Whoah! I was convinced that language was some sort of Chinese. Or possibly some Tibetan language.
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 8:00 pm
by bradrn
Karch wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 12:07 pm
is it at least Austronesian?
No, it is not.
Re: Name That Language
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 5:49 am
by Birdlang
Is it spoken in Indonesia?
Re: Name That Language
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 7:12 am
by bradrn
Birdlang wrote: ↑Sat May 23, 2020 5:49 am
Is it spoken in Indonesia?
No.
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 4:02 pm
by Karch
Is it spoken in Papua New Guinea then?
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 7:33 pm
by bradrn
Karch wrote: ↑Sat May 23, 2020 4:02 pm
Is it spoken in Papua New Guinea then?
No.
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 11:11 am
by Frislander
Are we counting Bougainville as an independent country now?
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 2:01 pm
by Karch
Is it spoken in Indonesia then? If yes, is it a Timor-Alor-Pantar language?
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 6:24 pm
by bradrn
Frislander wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 11:11 am
Are we counting Bougainville as an independent country now?
No, I am not.
Karch wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 2:01 pm
Is it spoken in Indonesia then? If yes, is it a Timor-Alor-Pantar language?
I already said it isn’t from Indonesia
EDIT: Although, now that I check, you are correct in that it is a Timor-Alor-Pantar language!
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 7:42 pm
by Nortaneous
Makasae?
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 7:45 pm
by bradrn
Yes.
EDIT: Specifically, text B1 ‘How to make
kalauru’ from
this grammar.
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 8:59 pm
by Nortaneous
an easy one and a less easy one
Duqaça meхkaška gholla tiysab az go,
Cecväхav qiça lättiy jalamo.
Хila mega uzh хozagha dikagha, sa dog xhoх laz!
Duqaça lätteх xha ċa khägilg az lurgdac!
Metesle anga war dalay ngəndəye, amazata aka ala avəya nengehe ana məze ahay na. Səwat na, təta a məsəyon na ava nəndəye na, pester áhata, "Ey, ele nehe na, kógom bay!" Sen ala na, zar ahan na, dək mədakan na mənjəye ata. Apazan albaya ahay tolo a ləhe. Memese va nə nok egəne na, agəsaw har ava gam. Nolo nahar elé a gəvah əwla ava jəyga.
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 10:46 pm
by bradrn
Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 8:59 pm
an easy one and a less easy one
Duqaça meхkaška gholla tiysab az go,
Cecväхav qiça lättiy jalamo.
Хila mega uzh хozagha dikagha, sa dog xhoх laz!
Duqaça lätteх xha ċa khägilg az lurgdac!
⟨xh⟩ suggests Albanian, but that clearly isn’t this. A Turkic language, maybe?
Metesle anga war dalay ngəndəye, amazata aka ala avəya nengehe ana məze ahay na. Səwat na, təta a məsəyon na ava nəndəye na, pester áhata, "Ey, ele nehe na, kógom bay!" Sen ala na, zar ahan na, dək mədakan na mənjəye ata. Apazan albaya ahay tolo a ləhe. Memese va nə nok egəne na, agəsaw har ava gam. Nolo nahar elé a gəvah əwla ava jəyga.
⟨ə⟩ is a very distinctive letter. Is this language spoken in Cameroon? (Or at least that general region?)
EDIT: Is this Chadic? Vowel system appears to be /a e o ɨ/, which is very distinctive; if Chadic, then it’s probably Bana or Margi or something like that.
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 10:52 pm
by Nortaneous
bradrn wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 10:46 pm
⟨xh⟩ suggests Albanian, but that clearly isn’t this. A Turkic language, maybe?
neither Albanian nor Turkic
⟨ə⟩ is a very distinctive letter. Is this language spoken in Cameroon? (Or at least that general region?)
surely not
that distinctive but yes it's spoken in Cameroon
Re: Name That Language!
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 10:53 pm
by bradrn
Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 10:52 pm
⟨ə⟩ is a very distinctive letter. Is this language spoken in Cameroon? (Or at least that general region?)
surely not
that distinctive but yes it's spoken in Cameroon
Is this Chadic? Vowel system appears to be /a e o ɨ/, which is very distinctive; if Chadic, then it’s probably Bana or Margi or something like that.
EDIT: ‘Bana or Margi’ suggests Biu-Mandara; is that correct?
(I just edited my previous post, not sure if you saw it)
EDIT: And as for ⟨ə⟩, you’d be surprised how few languages use it. ⟨ə⟩ for /ɨ/ is very much a Cameroonian thing.