Re: Language Identification?

From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Subject: Re: Language Identification?


> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 06:23:02PM -0800, Apollo Hogan wrote:
> > > > > Dzje idzjesh?
> > > > > "Where are you going?"
> >
> > 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.
I've heard где used instead of куда in Russian, and I'm sure that "dzje" is
cognate to где.  While I do know that Cyrillic ё represents "jo", I haven't
made that mistake here.  (Though I have made that mistake before.)