Re: Online Language Identifier

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 06:51, Adam Walker wrote:
> --- Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> wrote:
> > I fed Xerox and Languid.cantbedone the following
> > text from my Tanala archives:
> > Enya renyarazre siritse!  Se Sieratyi.
> > praratrashya-siritse?
> > Kebofutyo-siritse?
>
> <snip>
>
> > Xerox - Catalan
> > Languid - Spanish
> >
> > So they were working on frequency of syllabic
> > structure?  Ie, which vowels and
> > which consonants fitted together, and how often?
> >
> > That's the impression I get.
> >
> > Wesley Parish
>
> I have no idea how they were working, but Catalan
> seems a pretty informed guess without knowing any of
> the words.  The first two sentences, especially, have
> several letter sequences that look Catalan-ish.  That
> last line looks more like a Bantu language, though.
I personally would think - if I was coming to Tanala without ever having known
it before, I would think a word like praratrashya was indoaryan.  But neither
of the language-guessers had Prakrit as an option, so I suppose ... ;)

kebofutyo is more random than anything else.  I don't know any Bantu
languages, much to my regret. ;)

Wesley Parish
>
> :-)
>
> ADam
>
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>
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