Re: Language Identification?

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.

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