Re: Online Language Identifier

David J. Peterson wrote at 2005-08-30 00:50:14 (-0700)
 >
 > Anyway, try it out!  It's great fun!  Plus, this might help out the
 > "What language is this song/text in?" threads.  I hear for real
 > languages it's pretty accurate.
 >
 > (Oh, a side-note: It has a fixed number of languages [46] it's
 > guessing from, and it lists them for you.  This list includes
 > Esperanto, but does not include any Austronesian language, I
 > think...  [What is Malay?]  That's probably why a language that
 > looks like Hawaiian looked so alien to it.)
 >

Malay is Austronesian, and so is Indonesian, which is also on the
list.  In fact, they're almost the same language.

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=91217

If it were working (which unfortunately at present it seems not to be)
you might like to try Maciej Ceglowski's language guesser too,
although it's supposed to identify stuff it doesn't know as
"gibberish", so you're not guaranteed an amusing misidentification.

http://languid.cantbedone.org/

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