Anyone interested in doing a "Guess the Language" thread like they have over on the CBB here? I always thought the idea of the game was good. But it's on the CBB and I hear they call fries "chips" there and go to church on Saturdays, etc.
Rules: No Googling cause that's cheating. If you guess right you post the next language. RE-EDIT: New Rule: Use "normal" orthographies, please. I think you know what I mean. Try not to be cute and convert your sample into X-Sampa for no reason, etc.
Here's the first language:
Pté žé ó hį́k pʰáta hį́k tąyą́ȟ tʰanó né owášèke nówa éyàku cʰén. Ecʰén én šų́kašàna ecʰác én hí. “Micʰín, įmátùtʰa nó. Míš etą́hą mak’ú wo,” ecíya.
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"It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be said, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is.' Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."
– The Gospel of Thomas
I would strongly suspect some variety of Athabaskan, except it looks like Athabaskan had a child with Lakota. It also doesn't have ridiculously long words, so it's probably Siouan, except it has high, low and mid tones, so Lakota it ain't. It could be Osage, but the trademark of Osage (that I know of) is br clusters that are cognate to Lakota's bl ones.
Is that native orthography, or is it just a phonetic transcription scheme?
Either way, unless it's an unusual transcription scheme, the ogoneks would seem to suggest north america. And half the options there can be ruled out by it having five vowels rather than four. So that just leaves us with five thousand to choose from...
When you say we can't google, are we allowed to look up stuff on google/wikipedia/wals/etc that isn't just entering the words into google - or do we just have to know off the top of our heads?
EDIT: the apparent lack of long vowels may be noteworthy. Phonotactics are odd, with only one initial cluster...
But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
Apart from the rich notation for tone/accentuation the example has a flavour that points towards some form of Dakotan. There's no l in there so probably not Lakota. Then again, pt is the only consonant cluster in the whole example, which to me tells more about the poor representativity of examples this short than about phonotactics.
I'd say doing honest research (meaning checking specific stuff from literature) has to be allowed as long as people don't start running searches on the examples themselves. It's also a good custom to check what king of search results the example yields before posting it.
I'm going to say Assiniboine too because a) I can understand about half of it from Lakota, b) it's clearly an n-dialect of Dakotan, and c) I'm 95% sure I remember that žé is Assiniboine for D/Lakota hé 'that'.
I'd say doing honest research (meaning checking specific stuff from literature) has to be allowed as long as people don't start running searches on the examples themselves. It's also a good custom to check what king of search results the example yields before posting it.
Maybe, I guess. I'm not the king of this game.
"It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be said, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is.' Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."
– The Gospel of Thomas
Âlêgë tî gue na âmbênî lêmbëtï tî lêndo sô abûngbi mîngi nî na yâ tî motarâka sô na terê nî ge na gale sô. Me na lê tî lêmbëtï ôko ôko, töngana kua nî ahûnda nî, mo lîngbi tî wara âmbênî gbetarâka sô abâa gï lêmbëtï nî.
I did have a bizarrely similar (to the original poster's) accident about four years ago, in which I slipped over a cookie and somehow twisted my ankle so far that it broke
What kind of cookie?
Aeetlrcreejl > Kicgan Vekei > me /ne.ses.tso.sats/
I did have a bizarrely similar (to the original poster's) accident about four years ago, in which I slipped over a cookie and somehow twisted my ankle so far that it broke
What kind of cookie?
Aeetlrcreejl > Kicgan Vekei > me /ne.ses.tso.sats/
I did have a bizarrely similar (to the original poster's) accident about four years ago, in which I slipped over a cookie and somehow twisted my ankle so far that it broke
What kind of cookie?
Aeetlrcreejl > Kicgan Vekei > me /ne.ses.tso.sats/
I did have a bizarrely similar (to the original poster's) accident about four years ago, in which I slipped over a cookie and somehow twisted my ankle so far that it broke
What kind of cookie?
Aeetlrcreejl > Kicgan Vekei > me /ne.ses.tso.sats/
I did have a bizarrely similar (to the original poster's) accident about four years ago, in which I slipped over a cookie and somehow twisted my ankle so far that it broke
What kind of cookie?
Aeetlrcreejl > Kicgan Vekei > me /ne.ses.tso.sats/
Naubadiy duawa taakw, di taakw krad adi du kritaka, titataka adi du, tibrik, nikidi duad yaad, yaku ada waad, "Sa! Wamina taakw bap vikla", wadil, "a nyanaki taakw a tikwabana siyk bi lakunyina? A siykapika?" Wadik, a waad, a taakw adi likidi du, adi du takwaam ay, "Ka wuna taakwa, bap agwajapik vikla?"
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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!