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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 177 of 254 03 November 2012 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
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That's pretty much it per the source although the exchange is understood to be in the present tense (i.e. "Where do you come from? - I come from Naryan-Mar.").
And here's how these sound like in their realization by a native speaker of Tundra Nenets' sub-dialect of the Kanin Peninsula (~ "Western" Tundra Nenets) Пыp хaняд тocaн? Maњ Hapъян-Mapкад тocaм. It's your turn, viedums. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4664 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 178 of 254 04 November 2012 at 1:46am | IP Logged |
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Interesting! The "Comparative Nenets-Nganasan Multimedia Dictionary" on that site is kind of fun. And I recommend "The Reindeer People" by Piers Vitebsky for an ethnography of that part of the world.
Here's another one: Gipakatagaabab lang ku ninyu. Ihása ku, tits. 'You just think I'm a hillbilly. Don't take me for a fool, buddy.' Hint: the root of the first word is 'abab'. Edited by viedums on 07 November 2012 at 7:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4664 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 179 of 254 16 November 2012 at 9:59am | IP Logged |
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Here are a few more sentences in this language:
Nagbagitbagit ka giyud sa ímung bána niánang ímung pagkasabaan. ‘You’re provoking your husband to anger with your nagging.’ Diriyut mi magkadrú. Púsil giyud untà tu. ‘We nearly drew our guns on each other. It would have been a gunfight.’ Dulum ang kaugmáun sa táwung tapulan. ‘A lazy man has a gloomy future.’ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 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 180 of 254 16 November 2012 at 12:20pm | IP Logged |
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Este persklum aves anzeriates enetu, pernaies pusnaes start this ceremony by looking at the birds, both in front of you and behind you clue: it's a dead language from Europe Edited by Iversen on 20 November 2012 at 11:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| chokofingrz Pentaglot Senior Member England Joined 5187 days ago 241 posts - 430 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Luxembourgish | Message 181 of 254 01 December 2012 at 5:45am | IP Logged |
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I can only guess Etruscan but I think I'm wrong.
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| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4664 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 182 of 254 01 December 2012 at 9:11am | IP Logged |
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I think this is actually Umbrian. It's the first line from the Iguvine Tablets.
Here's another: Tam sutvā tāpaso nava gāthā abhāsi: Yathā mahā vāridharo kumbho suparināmavā tathūpamam ambapakkan vannagandharasuttamam. […] “The ascetic on hearing this repeated nine stanzas: Afloat upon the stream, fair nymph, a mango I did see; With outstretched hand I seized the fruit and brought it home with me." […] (m with dot above and n with dot below might not display correctly here) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| abSeiter_ Diglot Newbie Czech Republic Joined 4480 days ago 19 posts - 25 votes Speaks: Czech*, Slovak Studies: French, English, German, Norwegian, Mandarin, Polish | Message 183 of 254 01 December 2012 at 9:43am | IP Logged |
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Some words are in Pāli , so i guess its this one :D Edited by abSeiter_ on 01 December 2012 at 10:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4664 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 184 of 254 01 December 2012 at 3:18pm | IP Logged |
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That's right, it's Pali. This is from a Jataka tale (516 the Kimchanda jataka), and the translation is from the complete set edited by Cowell.
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