Re: Unknown Language Identifier!

Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> writes:

> Try this out on your conlangs:
>
> http://epsilon3.georgetown.edu/~cball/languageid/
>
> I had a go at Brithenig and got:
>
> "The sample you submitted scored most highly against: Welsh with a
> score of 0.1028.*
I tried some other snippets from various conlangs and got the following
results:

Sindarin (A Elbereth Gilthoniel):

Welsh             0.0313
Inupiaq           0.0240
Plautdietsch      0.0200
Breton            0.0188

Sindarin (The King's Letter to Samwise):

Breton            0.0874
Welsh             0.0766
Faeroese          0.0488
Icelandic         0.0472

Quenya (Namaarie):

Swahili           0.0273
SchwytzZurich     0.0235
Somali            0.0228
RomanschSursilvan 0.0217

Quenya (Genesis 2):

Breton            0.0974
Welsh             0.0649
BasqueGuipaz      0.0487
SerboCroatian     0.0473

Breathanach LF (Babel Text):

Irish             0.0799
Italian           0.0586
Islandic          0.0558
Gheg              0.0471

Breathanach LN (Babel Text):

Faeroese          0.1245
Icelandic         0.0975
Irish             0.0791
Welsh             0.0557

Germanech (improvised sample):

Latvian           0.1113
Catalan           0.0471
Italian           0.0414
SchwytzBern       0.0411

A sample of C code yielded the following scores:

English           0.0713
Scots             0.0519
Latin             0.0323
AngloSaxon        0.0296

Nice thing to play with!  Thanks, Padraic!

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