Re: Language Identification - Continued
From: | JS Bangs <jaspax@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 5:07 |
Joseph Fatula sikyal:
> After some more conversations, I've accumulated quite a bit of data on this
> mystery Slavic language. Here are some phrases and words, using the
> transcription as explained below. Where words are different in this message
> than the previous one, the newer ones are correct. I've just gone through
> and rechecked all the words collected so far.
[snip]
I showed this to my Slavic linguistics teacher, and he said it didn't look
like any of the standard languages he knew, but that it looked like a
nonstandard dialect of Polish or Czech. Specifically, he mentioned
dialects of Polish spoken in Germany, for what it's worth...
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Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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