Guess the Language, anyone?

[Xephyr]

Is it spoken in Nigeria?

[Ambrisio]

No.

[din]

Ivory Coast?

[Click]

I have no clue at all, but could it be Dogon?

[Salmoneus]

Is it Savannas?

[Radagast revived]

Bozo...

[chris_notts]

Bozo...

Don't be mean!

[Ambrisio]

Radagast, you're right! That was a hard one eh?

It's now your turn.

[Radagast revived]

jawey tiyay'jma ---- It's all going to pass,
tiyay'jma jliya. ---- it's going to happen like that.
Ajlmam'me awena kapánya. ---- We're going to live a good life.

(I've added translation for your convenience)

[sangi39]

jawey tiyay'jma ---- It's all going to pass,
tiyay'jma jliya. ---- it's going to happen like that.
Ajlmam'me awena kapánya. ---- We're going to live a good life.

(I've added translation for your convenience)

Some form of Berber? Something Afro-Asiatic?

[Radagast revived]

Nope.

[Nortaneous]

Mesoamerican?

[Radagast revived]

Yes.

[Nesescosac]

P'urhépecha?

[Radagast revived]

Nope.

[Tropylium]

Is it something Oto-Manguean?

[Radagast revived]

Nope.

[Solarius]

Mayan?

[Tiamat]

something Mixe-Zoquean?

[Radagast revived]

Between you youve just ruled out about perhaps 70% of the languages in Mesoamerica. Isnt it a little cheating to just go by family? And should we perhaps ask each guesser for a rationale for why they guess as they do?

In any case, no and no.

[Xephyr]

Yeah it can get frustrating when it looks like the guessers aren't so much playing Guess the Language as they are playing Language Twenty Questions.

But in their defense, the original text was awfully, awfully short. Six words in total. Not much to work with.

Also: Seri? (doesn't look an awful lot like Seri, but it looks even less like Totonac-Tepehua, so...)

[Tiamat]

It's also definitely not Miskito or a related language. Which would leave us with one other language family and it doesn't like much like the Chibchan languages I've seen. But I agree with Xephyr, the original text was awful. Do you have a better one?

[Radagast revived]

True the text was short. I had to pick a small piece so as to not give away the continent through loanwords. Here I'll provide a bit more w. translation.

Loya'aya litayki jlanDios
To declare the word of God,

tikwa tama ashpela
he says, although many

tikwa ulijpa tama ijlta'a (a'i) kipime
have overcome it although it was (not) difficult,

to lingshanuk' (a'i ki)pik'a tokyajla
for example, the people (didn't) want to hear

(eh) litayki.
his word.

Te kajl'kwayaku?
What are we going to say?

Ajlkojle iyank' lulijpa
We are going to say that we have overcome it.

y porque tikwa pe laliwik'ipa
and because, he says, of what we have learned.

[Risla]

Just on an off chance, is it Lenca?

[Radagast revived]

Nope! I'm sorry! Maybe I should mention that the jl combination is a phonemic unvoiced l which is kind of characteristic for this language which has an otherwise fairly average looking phoneme inventory.