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Re: Unknown Language Identifier!

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, January 29, 2001, 4:02
J Matthew Pearson wrote:
> 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.
According to the web site: Oromo Affinity: Oromo is an Afro-Asiatic/East Cushitic language. Where Spoken: Oromo is spoken by at roughly 4,000,000 people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
> I notice that Somali is showing up on about 2 in 3 lists. I wonder why...
I don't know, but I noticed it too. It seems as tho Somali is a sort of catch-all language ... Incidentally, typing in the keyboard (qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm) and copying it repeatedly gave me: Welsh with a score of 0.0460. Hausa (score 0.0131). Welsh (score 0.0099). BasqueGuipuz (score 0.0091). How can Welsh be on the list twice? And my sig, altho it warned me that the sample size was too small, nevertheless had Welsh as the top choice, at .0249, followed by Polish (.0164), English (.0155), and Aymara (.0152) -- Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon A nation without a language is a nation without a heart - Welsh proverb ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42