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Re: Asha'ille is Albanian?

From:David Starner <dvdeug@...>
Date:Sunday, April 27, 2003, 4:58
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 12:31:28AM -0400, Herman Miller wrote:
> > Shavkordhi aet ne dasharid e'kath asha'ille. > > ("Stranger, you can't speak the language of Asha'ille.") > > > >And it kindly told me that the language was Albanian. So I replied: > > I guess as soon as it sees a "dh" it figures it must be Albanian. A while > back I tried a program like this on a sample of Olaetian, and it also > guessed it was Albanian.
Well, when your sample is one line, a letter combination like dh may be the only thing that will spike the probabilities enough to make it stand out. mguesser, the program I have installed, doesn't recognize Albanian, but puts the rating of Estonian (its best guess) at 0.66, with a good solid answer being above 0.9. -- David Starner - dvdeug@email.ro Ic sæt me on anum leahtrice, ða com heo and bát me!

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