Re: Language Identification?

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, JS Bangs wrote:

> Muke Tever sikyal:
>
> > > Búdes spádats útro.
> > > "It will rain tomorrow."
> > >
> > > Ja muózhem idz ta robóti.
> > > "I have to go to work."
> > >
> > > vidlíka, núzhnik, lozhíshka
> > > "fork, knife, spoon"
> > >
> > > Utra dzwéra.
> > > "Open the door."
> > >
> > > Dzje idzjesh?
> > > "Where are you going?"
> > >
> > > where:
> > > u - [U] as in book
> > > zh - [Z] as in Asia
> > > j - [j] as y in yellow
> > > zj - [z\j] somewhere between z and zh
> > >
> > > I can see that it's definitely a Slavic language, but I'm not sure which
> > > one.
> >
> > Well, there's always the process of elimination :x)
> > It's not Serbo-Croat or Russian, but it's closer to the latter.
>
> Actually, I'm not sure that it's not Russian either. It doesn't *look*
> much like a good transliteration of Russian, but it's not far off from
> what we might expect of a naive non-native speakers transcription.
It is also neither Bulgarian nor Ukranian.
I don't think it is Russian: "where are you going?" should be something
like 'kuda idjosh?' for Russian, nothing like what's given.

--Apollo

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