Guess the Language, anyone?

[opipik]

Sranan Tongo?

[Vijay]

Yep! It's the (second verse of the) national anthem of Suriname. Your turn

[opipik]

¹² Apaiya sese huteno yasi kenaʼa alino vaiteno faitopale maiʼneno inake huno apafineʼke “Lapaʼkaeyate nakaeya hulapatoa kavana ako afitapa alakepa huʼnafe? ¹³ Lapaʼkaeya nakaeyafe ‘Aliʼka Laya Hu Nenao.’ nehutapa ‘Anumayatimokae.’ hutapa nehayana alaki lamake nehae nakaeya inani akufa veʼka maiʼnoe.

[Vijay]

Is this another language from PNG?

[Sumelic]

I Googled it: yes.

[Travis B.]

A proposal: anyone who posts a PNG language is disqualified from posting a language again. And if they afterwards guess a language correctly, the poster of that language gets to post another language. Also, if one suspects that a language is a PNG language, it is permissible to use Google to confirm that that language is, indeed, a PNG language.

[opipik]

A proposal: anyone who posts a PNG language is disqualified from posting a language again. And if they afterwards guess a language correctly, the poster of that language gets to post another language. Also, if one suspects that a language is a PNG language, it is permissible to use Google to confirm that that language is, indeed, a PNG language.

No. I caused it because I spammed this thread with samples of PNG languages. I'll post only languages from other countries from now.

The language was Inoke-Yate.

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New text:

Hulungi kò sʌmudu layal bʌ̀ bʌnwuham? Tʌnngʌlam kʌm ngà logi nʌ kam ngà libun: Hulung lʌ sʌmudu layal bʌ̀ bʌnwu lʌ. Tʌnngʌlʌm tʌy tʌdʌn kʌda lʌ: La kʌmaol lʌ, fʌmngʌl la bʌ̀ layal. Sudu la sigʌl kuwanan lʌ. Mon lʌ; "Bʌ ni, layal bʌ̀ banwuhu, Bʌlayu du gotu loyofu."

[Cedh]

Kanuri?

[opipik]

Kanuri?

Nope.

[opipik]

Here's a text in the current orthography in the same language:

Yem tehe yu ekni, yó kem tau Dyu sal le gel sbung, yem sotu kmuleng gomong du kem téméen, kem mà le, kem mà dì le, ngà le logi ne kem towu le libun, tódô gotu sloni gunù le. Ngang le mból efet le baling ebè kem dè benwu lemnek.

[opipik]

Does anybody want to guess this language?

[Vijay]

I would love to, but I'm not sure I can.

[kuroda]

Seems like no one feels like relying on guesswork; so why don't we close out this round -- hear the answer, and get a new mystery sample going?

[Vijay]

Who would provide the new mystery sample? Opipik again? He's already done that twice in a row now, and whoever provides one, it surely needs to be a considerably easier language to guess.

[opipik]

The language was Tboli.

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This one is easy:

Long dispela pasin tasol, God i wokim skai na graun na ol planti samting i stap long en. Long de namba 7 God i lukim olgeta wok bilong en i pinis, na em i malolo long dispeal de. Na God i tambuim de namba 7 na em i tok olsem de namba 7 bilong olgeta wik em i bikpela de bilong em yet, long wanem, em i wokim pinis olgeta samting na long dispela de em i malolo. Long dispela pasin tasol, God i wokim skai na graun na olgeta samting.

[jmcd]

Tok Pisin?

[opipik]

Tok Pisin?

Yes.

[jmcd]

OK my turn:
Mwanamtsa ule madza aja atsimu.
Mfalume madza atsaha kamwe alawe.
Soulé kasifanya hazi.

(It is isn't really a text but a series of example sentences)

[opipik]

Bantu?

[jmcd]

Yup!

[opipik]

Northeast Bantu?

[jmcd]

Now that you mention it, I just realised it is part of that group, yes.

[kuroda]

Is it a Zone E language?

[jmcd]

That's a second form of terminology for classifying these languages that I wasn't already familiar with. The answer's no. I am hesitant on which extent we should give clues or which type of questions we should be asking.

[kuroda]

OK, is it one of the Kikuyu & Thamba group of Northeast Bantu?