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Re: Language Identification?

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Sunday, November 16, 2003, 0:03
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. *Muke! -- http://frath.net/ http://kohath.livejournal.com/ E jer savne zarjé mas ne (You put music in my heart Se imné koone'f metha And with the spirit of an artist Brissve mé kolé adâ. I will make the dreamtime)

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