Re: Unknown Language Identifier!

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Roger Mills wrote:

> Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> >Try this out on your conlangs:
> >
> >http://epsilon3.georgetown.edu/~cball/languageid/
> >
> Ho ho.  I tried Kash (using the text from Nicole's translation relay) and
> got 1. Hausa !! in the .08 range, 2. Swahili .05, 3. Basque 4. Kanjobal
> (Mayan) , both in the .03 range.  With slightly different spelling
> (eliminating some of the intervocalic y's) I still got, in order, Hausa,
> Swahili, then Italian and Basque.  Well what did I expect?
>
Interesting - Denden get Hausa, too:

he sample you submitted scored most highly against: Hausa with a score
of 0.0760.*

The next three highest scoring language references are:Maori (score
0.0697).Tosk (score 0.0682).Tzeltal (score 0.0620).


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