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Chung
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 Message 177 of 254
03 November 2012 at 7:53pm | IP Logged 
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.
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viedums
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 Message 178 of 254
04 November 2012 at 1:46am | IP Logged 
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

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 Message 179 of 254
16 November 2012 at 9:59am | IP Logged 
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.’


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 Message 180 of 254
16 November 2012 at 12:20pm | IP Logged 
Cebuan



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

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 Message 181 of 254
01 December 2012 at 5:45am | IP Logged 
I can only guess Etruscan but I think I'm wrong.
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 Message 182 of 254
01 December 2012 at 9:11am | IP Logged 
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 suparināmavā
tathūpamam ambapakkan vannagandharasuttamam. […]


“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)


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 Message 183 of 254
01 December 2012 at 9:43am | IP Logged 
Some words are in Pāli , so i guess its this one :D

Edited by abSeiter_ on 01 December 2012 at 10:08am

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 Message 184 of 254
01 December 2012 at 3:18pm | IP Logged 
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.

Your turn!




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