| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 29, 2006, 23:43 |
it really doesn't look at all like quenya: tolkien made its orthography latinate, remember? (: though of course, like rosenfelder's languages the impression can be changed by altering the romanisation. then again, what might those "yy"s stand for? so many words sound plausibly quenya but so many others violate some instinctual rule or other. eugene On 6/27/06, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:> There seem to be several pages of text in this conlang [?] with no > explanation or links to any explanation in other languages. > Some while ago someone added this link to the Wikipedia "Constructed language" > article: > > http://prtm.50megs.com/index.html > > This page has a 5600-word text in the language, and nothing else. > Doing a frequency analysis and then Googling for some of the > most common words finds these other pages: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maintenance > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maintenance/immeh_hlar_pribhar > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maintenance/prigalb_kobidnidor > > Checking Wikipedia for User:Maintenance's history of contributions > also reveals (besides normal article edits) these other user subpages in > this language - or perhaps another, since the frequencies of common > words seem to be different: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maintenance/athi_sharlunwahr > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maintenance/ayen_darnodriy > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maintenance/wae_bilor_aren_kolunroh > > Two of the most common words seem to also be Quenya words, > but the text as a whole doesn't look like Quenya (but I'm not very > knowledgable about Quenya). > > This is a partial frequency analysis of the text at the page listed first above. > > 100.0000% 5651 [TOTAL WORDS] > 5.9459% 336 hlar > 5.9282% 335 nar > 5.4327% 307 immeh > 5.2911% 299 yn > 4.9549% 280 yneth > 2.0527% 116 unel > 2.0350% 115 emi > 1.8935% 107 unin > 1.8758% 106 omi > 0.7963% 45 geh > 0.7255% 41 geth > 0.7078% 40 le > 0.6194% 35 hadth > 0.5840% 33 her > 0.5663% 32 halk > 0.4778% 27 gesh > 0.4778% 27 gweh > > Any ideas? > > -- > Jim Henry > http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm >