What, really??? I mean, um, indeed, thank you!
Like I said above, the
only reason I even tried out for this one is because of old conlang-prep reading I'd done, which left me pretty sure this was a southern-group Bantu language, but it didn't look like Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana etc. for mostly orthographic/phonetic reasons. I wasn't certain that it wasn't from a more northerly East African Bantu language (I think most of us immediately pegged it, just from our general ling-nerdery and gut feeling, as coming from somewhere between Joburg and Nairobi, right?), but figured it was worth making a guess.
Don't entirely feel like I earned that one, but I'll seize the moment and offer up this one:
Tanaq qulan qļhlenk k'iļknen qnaŋ nwen mestanke maʔ l'aŋeʔn. Tanaq nweʔn esqçaq kriwatqzuknen: Mizwin isx kk'oļknen. Tanaq mejim alxpeļ ksisxeŋļʔin.
Let me just say right off:
no, this is not a conlang. But with words like
ksisxeŋļʔin, can you blame me for being drawn to it for not-purely-academic reasons?
I, too, am playing with some extra rules:
1) No language family or geographical guesses until 24 hours after this is posted;
2) No more than one answer at a time. Until I've said yes or no to your first one, I'm just going to ignore all the others.
3) I find far more fun and interest when people explain (however briefly) why they make the proposal they do -- whether it's right or wrong. OK, that's not a rule, but a suggestion for Maximum Game Fun;
4) I'll provide more text if requested (is this really 'enough'?);
5) If five days go by without anyone proposing an identification, I'll just post the answer to keep the ball in play.
CONLANG Code: C:S/G v1.1 !lafh+>x cN:L:S:G a+ x:0 n4d:2d !B A--- E-- L--- N0 Id/s/v/c k- ia--@:+ p+ s+@ m-- o+ P--- S++ Neo-Khitanese