Guess the Language, anyone?

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Is it Uto-Aztecan?
Nope.
Omaha-Ponca?
Nope.

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Is it spoken somewhere in the Amazonas?
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Is it spoken somewhere in the Amazonas?
Nope.

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Is it Blackfoot?

Wait, no, it's got a voicing contrast in stops, dang...

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CatDoom wrote:Is it Blackfoot?
Nope.

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Is it spoken in or near California?

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Cedh wrote:Is it spoken in or near California?
Nope.

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It was more than a month since the last guess, I think it's time to provide a new sample. (The previous one was Yareni Zapotec.)
Cmv svtinaomvnotv nctv tinao, c nvitv tinaosc svyunenomanesena ilvliyvsc, wanisc cna tinao siyvli wvyunenaowo.

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Muscogee?

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Nope.

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Is it a language indigenous to the Americas at least?

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Vijay wrote:Is it a language indigenous to the Americas at least?
Nope.

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Is it a language spoken in Papua New Guinea?

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Vijay wrote:Is it a language spoken in Papua New Guinea?
Yes.

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Omg, I can't even seem to find a language spoken in Papua New Guinea that has word-initial <c> in its orthography! :o

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Vijay wrote:Omg, I can't even seem to find a language spoken in Papua New Guinea that has word-initial <c> in its orthography! :o
That doesn't mean there isn't one... We're dealing with more than 10% of all the languages in the world :)

Is it Trans-New-Guinean?
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Is it Trans-New-Guinean?
Nope.

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gufferdk wrote:That doesn't mean there isn't one
I know, but good grief, how will I find it?? :( Lol.

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Is it spoken in the northwestern parts of Papua New Guinea (ie area 3-6 on this map)?
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gufferdk wrote:Is it spoken in the northwestern parts of Papua New Guinea (ie area 3-6 on this map)?
Yes.

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Wutung?

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Is it an Arai language? Itera perhaps?
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gufferdk wrote:Is it an Arai language? Itera perhaps?
You won! It is, indeed, Iteri!

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Here is a new one:

Mowke nom nenel æye dekrame.
Yaw nom diyme tiyle dəwæykayme.
Mæy dupuy'e nom æypiyneney dəkrayme.
Tapwo dokwo, rom æye reyke dilyame, dilyame rapame.
Kewlakere rom dupuyame - tur tur tur.


Orthography is that of source minus hyphens indicating morpheme boundaries.
I do not know if it is the orthography that is used, or whether the language is regularly written down at all.

Edit as of 11/2 17:50 CET: corrected a spelling mistake. "Romdupyame" in the last line was changed to "rom dupuyame"
Last edited by gufferdk on Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:49 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Spoken in South America?

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