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Re: Unknown Language Identifier!

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Monday, January 29, 2001, 16:09
Christophe Grandsire wrote:


> The sample you submitted scored most highly against: Swahili with a score of > 0.0116.* (!!!)
Well, really, not much can be deduced from a 1% resemblance.
> What's SchwytzBern? (it looks like someone got asleep on a keyboard :) ).
The variety of Schwytzertuutsch (Swiss German) spoken in Berne.
> All four are Romance langs. Well, Narbonósc cannot deny its family :)) . > Interesting enough, all those four languages have been the first influence on > Narbonósc (though I would have thought French would have done a better score, > and I would have seen Portuguese rather than Galician. Still, the answer is > quite fair in this case).
There isn't that much *orthographic* resemblance between French and N. There is no Occitan sample, which would probably have matched better. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@...> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein