Re: Unknown Language Identifier!

> > Try this out on your conlangs:
> >
> > http://epsilon3.georgetown.edu/~cball/languageid/
Wow, I'm gone all weekend and when I come back the list is just brimming
with fun things to try.

Putting in Yivríndil (the Babel text, then a sample of sentences I
composed on the spot), I got:

Guipuzcoan Basque:  .1151
Tzeltal: .0671
Estonian: .0628
Hausa: .0460

Well, that's a diverse group of languages!  I think the Basque score was
good because, entirely by accident, the Yivríndil word for "and" is
"ta," just like Basque.

Using Praçí, a sister language to Yivríndil designed to sound like a
Romance lang I got:

Guipozcoan Basque: .0888
Tzeltal: .0664
Swahili: .0598
Estonian: .0506

Nothing Romance in there, but 3 of the same 4 as Yivríndil.  Obviously
they're related :-).  Using my last Yivríndil-related conlang,
Tzingrizîl, I got the results:

Tosk (dialect of Albanian): .0468
Tzeltal: .0431
Gheg: .0409
SerboCroatian: .0330

Since Tzingrizhîl is supposed to be Slavic-like, these resemblances are
about what I'd expect.  Note that Tzeltal shows up again. . . what fun!

Okay, now I must go back to work.  That was terrific.

Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
"It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and
improvements and change.  It is the old things that startle and
intoxicate.  It is the old things that are young."
-G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_