Re: Unknown Language Identifier!
| From: | J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 29, 2001, 3:50 |
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Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> Good grief, this is fun! I tried the phonological relay creation myth
> and got:
>
> Sotho with .0620
> Oromo with .0582
> Icelandic with .0464
> Finnish with .0459
>
> What are Sotho and Oromo? <puzzled look>
Sotho (or more properly Sesotho) is a southern Bantu language spoken in Lesotho
and adjacent areas of South Africa. I *think* Oromo is a language of Ethiopia,
but I'm not sure.
I notice that Somali is showing up on about 2 in 3 lists. I wonder why... I
will try this with Tokana and get back to you guys.
Matt.