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| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5559 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes  Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 1 of 5 09 January 2010 at 12:28am | IP Logged |
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Hey! Well, I sure hope this kind of topic is allowed here.
I was at my brother's high school today and noticed this painted on the wall. I was immediately taken aback by how few of the languages I recognised! Some look like they absolutely HAVE to be some kind of conlang, but taking into account the kind of high school my brother attends, you wouldn't expect these kinds of people to be attending it! Here is the picture: http://i794.photobucket.com/albums/yy222/ruusunen/Mobile%20U ploads/1262991776.jpg And the languages that appear on it: Welcome - English Bruchim habayim - ??? (maybe Turkish?) Isibingelelo - ??? (the "isi-" makes me think something like Zulu?) Vitajte - ??? Ha andâh - ??? (probably a conlang) Fáilte - Irish (had to look this up) Bienvenidos - Spanish Foon Ying - ??? (obviously something asian) Kalos Oristate - Greek (this is a guess, but it seems very Greek) Willkommon - I'm guessing it should be "Willkommen," German Dumanan cayo - ??? Yo koso - ??? Walcome - ??? (just a misspelling? I didn't think "welcome" would be up there twice) Ilo La - ??? (something like cebuano?) Iiwy - (conlang?) Aloha mai - Hawaiian Bienvenue - French Coragango co pŭla - ??? (this is an approximate, because i can't quite read the bright yellow text it's written in. At first I thought Romanian because of the last word, but it turns out it was just reminding me of "pulă" which is quite a naughty word, lol!) Maliu-mai - ??? Welkom - Dutch Isten Hozott - Hungarian (had to look it up) Mišto avilan - ??? (obviously something slavic) Puä'ð tiõrvâh - (something like Skolt Sami, maybe?) Yah oohkăăh - (perhaps something native american?) Can anyone shed some light on these bizarre languages? I'm just so puzzled! Google search isn't helping one bit. I've never felt so helpless before in terms of recognising languages, lol! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7162 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2 of 5 09 January 2010 at 12:54am | IP Logged |
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Welcome: English
Bruchim habayim: Hebrew ("welcome" when greeting several men) Yah oohkááh: Navaho (literally means "come in" to three or more people) Isibingelelo: Zulu (correct) Vitajte: Slovak Ha andâh: (?) Mišto avilan: European Gypsy Foon ying: Cantonese Kalos orisate: Greek (correct) Willkommon (sp): German (you remembered the spelling and language correctly). Dumanon cayo: Ilokano Yo koso: Japanese Walcome: Scots (it's debatable if Scots is a separate language or a dialect of English) Ilo la: Igbo Iiwy: Egyptian (extinct) Coragango co pŭla: (?) Maliu mai: Samoan Puä'ð tiõrvân: Skolt Sámi 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6709 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 5 09 January 2010 at 1:02am | IP Logged |
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Ha andâh: Haagse dialect of Dutch (as far as I can see from the things that turn up in Google)
Coragango co pŭla: no idea Edited by Iversen on 09 January 2010 at 1:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6671 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 4 of 5 09 January 2010 at 1:05am | IP Logged |
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Bruchim habayim - Hebrew
Isibingelelo - Zulu Vitajte - Slovak Ha andâh - Apache Foon Ying - Cantonese Dumanan cayo - Ilokano Yo koso - Japanese Walcome - Scots Ilo La - Igbo Iiwy - Egyptian Coragango co pŭla - misspelled Setswana Maliu-mai - Samoan Mišto avilan - Romani Puä'ð tiõrvâh - Skolt Sami Yah oohkăăh - Navajo OK, I admit that I found them on this site. Hint: instead of googling for them individually, I looked for "welcome in many languages". Edited by Marc Frisch on 09 January 2010 at 1:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5559 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 5 of 5 09 January 2010 at 2:55am | IP Logged |
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Thanks guys!! I think it's a lot more difficult to guess a language when you're given only one or two words and not a whole paragraph of text, lol!
I'm still really surprised there are students at his school who would do this. It's like one of the worst high schools in this area, with lots of bomb threats etc. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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