Re: Asha'ille is Albanian?

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Starner" <dvdeug@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: Asha'ille is Albanian?


> 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.
>
This one: http://complingone.georgetown.edu/cgi-bin/langid/cgi_form1.cgi

says it's Swiss German, Lithuanian, Albanian(Tosk), or Serbocroat, in that
order.