Re: Language Identification?

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:55:23 -0800, Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>
wrote:
> Can anyone here tell me what language this is?  Neither I nor the person
> I learned it from knew how it was spelled, so here's an improvised
> transcription:
>
> 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.


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