Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 169 of 254 31 October 2012 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
Bbcatcher08 wrote:
My language... "Donesi mi bananu za majmuna" (Bring me a banana for the monkey/ape) |
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Let's try this again.
Пыра теруда таня?
"Do you have any luggage?"
Two levels up in language nerdom if you can identify to which (sub-)dialect this phrase belongs.
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maxval Pentaglot Senior Member Bulgaria maxval.co.nr Joined 5073 days ago 852 posts - 1577 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, Bulgarian, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Latin, Modern Hebrew
| Message 170 of 254 02 November 2012 at 4:20pm | IP Logged |
Chung wrote:
Bbcatcher08 wrote:
My language... "Donesi mi bananu za majmuna" (Bring
me a banana for the monkey/ape) |
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Let's try this again.
Пыра теруда таня?
"Do you have any luggage?"
Two levels up in language nerdom if you can identify to which (sub-)dialect this phrase
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I think this is Udmurt.
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 171 of 254 03 November 2012 at 1:22am | IP Logged |
Like Udmurt, the script is Cyrillic but as I mentioned earlier, the sentence doesn't come from a Finno-Ugric (or Slavonic, for that matter) language
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Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5068 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans
| Message 172 of 254 03 November 2012 at 1:48am | IP Logged |
I have no idea; let's try Chechen.
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 173 of 254 03 November 2012 at 2:29am | IP Logged |
I'll put a couple of new sentences in this mystery language. Ignore the one that I offered as the initial clue.
Пыp хaняд тocaн?
Maњ Hapъян-Mapкад тocaм.
As before, you gain two levels more in language nerdom by also determining to which (sub)dialect the preceding belong.
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Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5068 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans
| Message 174 of 254 03 November 2012 at 10:32am | IP Logged |
Right... I'm now pretty sure it's Itelmen, but I have no idea what dialect it could be. Maybe Sedanka?
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 175 of 254 03 November 2012 at 5:46pm | IP Logged |
Mauritz wrote:
Right... I'm now pretty sure it's Itelmen, but I have no idea what dialect it could be. Maybe Sedanka? |
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It's not Itelmen.
The best hint is probably in the second sentence. Read the sentence aloud as if it were badly mispelled Russian because if I were to translate it, it'd probably make it too easy.
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viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4666 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese
| Message 176 of 254 03 November 2012 at 7:25pm | IP Logged |
How about Nenets?
Where did you come from? I came from Naryan-Mar (the red city).
Not sure about the dialect though.
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