Re: Language Identification?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 16, 2003, 3:43 |
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 06:23:02PM -0800, Apollo Hogan wrote:
> > > > Dzje idzjesh?
> > > > "Where are you going?"
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> 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.
Well, I can imagine a Russian 'lect using где (gdje) instead
of куда (kuda) in this construct, but I can't imagine hearing
идёш (id'joS) and writing it "idzjesh" - unless the transcriber
happens to know how that sound is written in Cyrillic. The vowel
is too clearly not an e.
-Mark
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