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Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:20 pm
by Nortaneous
Nias?
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:44 pm
by din
Nortaneous wrote:Nias?
That sounds about right
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 2:00 pm
by Herr Dunkel
Yeah, it's Nias, good job!
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 7:25 pm
by Nortaneous
Hy tʿuɣrmu raķxu ovagu taft'gu tʿomgu tʿor pʿryd'. N'i ņaķrux kʿeķxe hyjkxe zifku n'řyd'. Oɣlagu kaχko t'iɣrkoɣir fyn'd'. Či viņģavrdata n'i pʿvo čak idygna pʿvo xeraina. Ytk ņa ņanɣra čo ņanɣra havul pʿeɣlņ pʿřomsk ɣeřad.
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:00 pm
by ----
That's gotta be a Samoyedic language. Am I right?
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:16 pm
by Tropylium
Nah, Samoyedic langs mostly do not have spirant consonants other than /x/, and I see quite a few /f v z ɣ/ in there. All the spiritus asper at least suggests something Caucasian, and the lack of /q/ could be used to narrow it down further. Avar, perhaps?
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:32 pm
by Hallow XIII
Mator.
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 9:25 pm
by Herr Dunkel
The half-ring rather points to Afro-Asiatic. Semitic?
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 10:30 pm
by Nortaneous
No to all.
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 4:58 am
by Herr Dunkel
This stuff is really weird: ʿ ņķɣχčřy
Let's at least try to get the general area right. Subsaharan Africa?
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 5:36 am
by Qwynegold
Some kind of Berber?
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 11:07 am
by R.Rusanov
Looks like Tamazigh to me. The western dialect, specifically.
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 12:56 pm
by Nortaneous
No to all.
The transcription used is probably specific to the paper/author I pulled the text from. If the language has a standard Latin transcription, I don't know of it.
There's a difference between half-rings and apostrophes.
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:09 pm
by Tropylium
Herr Dunkel wrote:This stuff is really weird: ʿ ņķɣχčřy
Let's at least try to get the general area right. Subsaharan Africa?
I'd suspect that ‹ř› is transcribes /ʁ/, and Subsaharan Africa is not especially well-known for languages having uvular consonants. Or any vowels that could be reasonably transcribed as ‹y›.
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:23 pm
by Cedh
Something Iranian?
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 6:17 pm
by Nortaneous
No.
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 7:24 pm
by Porphyrogenitos
Something Tungusic or Paleo-Siberian?
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 8:54 pm
by Xephyr
Nivkh?
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 8:57 pm
by Nortaneous
Nivkh.
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 9:14 pm
by Xephyr
Mysterious Mystery Language of Mystery wrote:ʔąh ɬila·ʔ wəx̣ dəleh, “ƛ’i· sič’ ʔətaʔ. ʔu·dəx̣ ʔid q’eʔ quʔxdəleʔg.” ʔąh qeʔɬ ƛ’i· ʔąhč’ səɬtahɬ. ʔąhd q’eʔ sdileʔgɬįh. ʔuƛ’ yį·hinu·, k’udəwa·, tąhx̣əλi·nahsd ʔahnu·dəwa· ʔədɢəɬəduxɬ. ʔu·č’ x̣əλa·saʔyahɬįh, ʔąh qeʔɬ.
Following Nesescosac's example, I won't answer family or zone questions during the first 12 hours.
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 10:05 pm
by Herr Dunkel
Obviously North American. We can't basically do anything without family/zone questions now tho
Does it border the Siouan languages?
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 10:24 pm
by Xephyr
Herr Dunkel wrote:We can't basically do anything without family/zone questions now tho
Does it border the Siouan languages?
¬_¬
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 10:32 pm
by Porphyrogenitos
Kwak'wala?
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 10:56 pm
by vo1dwalk3r
Haida?
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 10:58 pm
by Xephyr
It is neither Kwakwala nor Haida.