Re: Language Identification?

From: "JS Bangs" <jaspax@...>
Subject: Re: Language Identification?


> > > 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.
Well, from my experience of Russian, it's definitely not Russian.  I spent a
couple months in a Russian-speaking country (more or less) this summer and
learned a bunch of Russian then.  I'm afraid I just don't know X-SAMPA off
the top of my head so I wrote down some phonetic terms I thought most of us
would understand.

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