Re: Unknown Language Identifier!

Telek came in with:

Somali: 0.0483
Apache: 0.0459
Swahili: 0.0453
Oromo: 0.0419

I intended Telek to look Native American, and one Native American language
hit the list, so I guess I did alright.

I wonder how many native american languages are in his database...



At 1/28/01 06:35 PM -0500, you wrote:
>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.*
>
>The next three highest scoring language references are:
>
>RomanschLadin (score 0.0643).
>Latin (score 0.0635).
>RomanschSursilvan (score 0.0593)."
>
>Kerno scored highly against French, then Catalan, Spanish and Welsh.
>
>Obviously, it doesn't do well with 'properly' identifying a conlang,
>but Andrew _did_ make a language that is supposed to be Welshlike in
>many ways; Kerno is modelled in several ways after French.
>
>Hm. Talarian scored most highly against Aymara. Oh well!
>
>Padraic.


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