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Mani
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 Message 81 of 254
04 May 2012 at 9:54am | IP Logged 
Lojban

Ab logöl das bäledan äfidom ed ädlinom nes sagön pleki äsäkom ome, kikod no äleplekom Godi süla.
(But seeing that the old man ate and drank without saying a prayer he asked him why he did not worship the God of heaven.)

@sgh78: No, it wasn't Squamish either. I took the line from this Spokane course.

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 Message 82 of 254
07 May 2012 at 4:47am | IP Logged 
Volapük

bal bu: bah ri: təmmop bal bon tom nkla:ŋ bri:

[o] here indicates a back mid-open vowel, vowels with colon are long. Words beginning with b have breathy phonation.

“The group of companions from down there met our group in the middle of the forest.”




Edited by viedums on 07 May 2012 at 4:49am

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 Message 83 of 254
09 May 2012 at 3:37pm | IP Logged 
puting it into google yields only reference to this very post :S

but it looks maybe like... some Tibetan dialect?

if yes, I will proceed, if not, ignore my post



in mōh ba līag geeing ex
This is what my father bought

Literally: this is belong buy father I.


Example from a textbook.



Edited by clumsy on 09 May 2012 at 3:46pm

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 Message 84 of 254
09 May 2012 at 4:10pm | IP Logged 
Hint: It's an Austroasiatic language spoken in Cambodia and Vietnam. You might pick this up from the shape of the verb (temmop) and the word for forest (which resembles the Khmer /prey/ ព្រៃ.)

By the way, if you want to learn more about languages like this, the Mon-Khmer Studies Journal is an excellent (open access) place to start:

www.mksjournal.org



Edited by viedums on 09 May 2012 at 4:18pm

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 Message 85 of 254
10 May 2012 at 1:33pm | IP Logged 
Well, sorry, but that's good,I think my language was to hard to answer anyway, it's actually Austro-Asiatic language too - Va from a Chinese textbook (Most Va live in Burma(800 000), and the rest in China(400 000).
thanks for the link.
unfortuanly I am unable to answer it this time, because it seems to not be Va.

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 Message 86 of 254
14 May 2012 at 3:33pm | IP Logged 
hmm. so my sencond guess is Bahnaric.
As it's spoken in this area (Cambodia, Vietnam).
If not... then... Khmu?
if not I give up!

侬去买点啥物事
nong qi ma di sa mek zi?

What are you going to buy?


Edited by clumsy on 14 May 2012 at 3:35pm

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 Message 87 of 254
14 May 2012 at 4:20pm | IP Logged 
Close, but Bahnaric is not a language, it's a grouping within Mon-Khmer. The answer is Bunong, also known as Phnong or Mnong. In Cambodia's Mondulkiri province, the majority of the population speaks it.

I'll pass on your sentence, however it would be nice if you would indicate tones if there are any (since it looks Sinitic...)



Edited by viedums on 14 May 2012 at 4:22pm

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 Message 88 of 254
14 May 2012 at 6:01pm | IP Logged 
well actually I am afraid they were not indicated in the textbook.
Anyway it uses two characters which are specific for this Chinese Dialect-language.
The sentence is from a textbook, but the language is not generally written like most Chinese non standard languages.

I will add word to word:
侬去买点啥物事
nong qi ma di sa mek zi?
you go buy (?) what thing?

What things are you going to buy?




Translation:
What are you doing?
I am watching tv.

Mother: it's so late! tomorrow you have to go to school! it's not sunda tomorrow, go fast...



THe language has ~70 - ~ 100 speakers (lack of current data), so it's quite an easy question.

Edited by clumsy on 14 May 2012 at 6:23pm



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