Identify the langauge

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Identify the langauge

Postby Brynjolfr » 2010-07-02, 19:04

I've taken a Wikipedia article about Wikipedia (as it's available in alot of diffrent langauges) and put it below. I want you to identify what language it is.
If you guess correctly, go to this page, change the langauge of the article and copy/paste the first segment of it. If it's a short article you may copy/paste the whole thing.

"Ƿicipǣdia is unċēapre ȝeƿitfullnesse ƿīsdōmbōc on fela ȝeþēodum, þe ǣȝhwā mæȝ ādihtan. Āfēdaþ þūsendu brȳcera him ætgædere mid þǣre ƿici hȳrlingum, and ƿreþaþ þæt unfeohsēċende Wikimedia Foundation hit. Mid þǣm ȝecyndum ȝeƿrita þe sind ȝeƿunelīce gefunden on ƿīsdōmbōcum, hēo hæfþ ƿīsdōm þe man cann ȝeƿunelīċe findan in ȝēarbōcum, gasetīrum, and maȝasīnum; and hēo āscrifþ nīƿe tīdinge."

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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby kasa » 2010-07-02, 19:23

Hmm, is it Old English? :silly: My turn. :D

Uicchipèdie ète 'na 'ngeclopedije lìbbere e mmultelènghe addò cingate pô scrìvere. Ete pure 'n'engeclopedije online.

Tutte quande ponne crià' 'na pàgena nóve o accunzà' 'n'ótra pagene; pe' ffà' scè' 'nnanze 'stu pruggètte, s'abbesogne de cchiù cristiáne, ma sèmbe reverescènne le réule e usanne 'u bone sienze.

Uicchipèdie ète mandenute da 'a Wikimedia Foundation ca ète 'n'organizzazzione no-profit.

Osce a die esistene cchiù de 260 versiune de Uicchipèdie jndr'à tutte le lènghe d'u munne.

Uicchipèdie avessa tenè almene 'n'inzieme de 1.000 vôsce stabbilite da 'a Wikimedia Foundation.

It's really easy to figure out, just Google a section of it. :) I didn't cheat for Old English though.

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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby mōdgethanc » 2010-07-02, 20:57

Neapolitan, bbecause it's llike Ittalian bbut with mmore ddouble cconsonnants.

Нэапаліта́нская мо́ва (па-нэапалітанску: lengua napulitana, італ. lingua napoletana) — дыялект італьянскае мовы. Распаўсюджаны ў Паўдневай Італіі, у Кампаніі, Неапалі, Гаэце ды Соры, акругох паўднёвага Лацыё, у частцы Асколі у Марке, у паўночнай Калябрыі, паўночнай ды цэнтральных частках Апуліі.
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby kasa » 2010-07-02, 21:11

Actually no, it's not Neapolitan, so you don't get to make a new one. :P

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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby Quevenois » 2010-07-02, 21:30

I'd say Sicilian.
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby kasa » 2010-07-02, 21:33

Close, but not quite. :)

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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby Quevenois » 2010-07-02, 22:22

Calabrese?
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby Formiko » 2010-07-02, 23:46

Sardinian or Tarantino....
Нэапаліта́нская мо́ва (па-нэапалітанску
looks like Ukrainian..but Ukrainian doesn't have а́ and о́, so I'll say Byelorussian.

Here's mine:


Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) ul wiki- program qullanuçı qälämxaqsız énsíklopädiä. Wikipedia säxifäläre tabışsız Wikimedia Foundation yağınnan idärä itelä. Başqa “énsíklopädile” tuplamalarnıñ mömkinlege östenä, Wikipedia, gäcittäy dä bularaq, xäzerge waqíğalarnı da terkäp tora.
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby Quevenois » 2010-07-03, 0:01

It wasn't Sardinian, in Sardinian the articles begin with an s-, here they begin with an l.

The last text is in some Turkic language, hard to say without cheating but I'd say Tatar (by chance)...
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby mōdgethanc » 2010-07-03, 1:15

It might be Azeri, or romanized Uyghur.

And it's Belarusian. Byelorussian is obsolete.
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby Formiko » 2010-07-03, 1:19

Talib wrote:It might be Azeri, or romanized Uyghur.

And it's Belarusian. Byelorussian is obsolete.


It was Tatar, but I think that you guessed Turkish was close enough.
Why is it obsolete? Unless it changed within 5 years. It's even pronounced Byeloruskee in Russian (White Russian)
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby mōdgethanc » 2010-07-03, 1:24

I know what it means in Russian. The thing with that is, Belarus is an independent country with its own language and has been since the 1990s. It looks really dated to me, like "Peking."
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby Formiko » 2010-07-03, 1:29

Talib wrote:I know what it means in Russian. The thing with that is, Belarus is an independent country with its own language and has been since the 1990s. It looks really dated to me, like "Peking."

I'm not up to date on all the language name changes. I was even teaching Inuktitut as Eskimo up until last year. Among my colleagues, if I said Byelorussian instead of Belarussian, no one would bat an eye. Belarussian just sounds wrong to me.
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby mōdgethanc » 2010-07-03, 3:00

Okay. Eskimo and Byelorussian sound like they belong in the years 1950 and 1985, respectively.
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby Brynjolfr » 2010-07-03, 12:02

This is starting to get off-topic :P Quevenois, I see you're next. :)
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby Quevenois » 2010-07-03, 13:25

Here you are :


Um an drar sig et minnes ur för eð ar werið
ja, taintj at ig minnes enn idag
ur ymslund an apt eð, ur ymslund eð werið
ja, taintj at ig minnes enn idag
Sos an dar gaundjin dier bufyörd fr]å tjyą
Ig war fel bar ellåv, men uld fel f]å fya
ja, f]å fy uppi buðär
Djingum fr]å Raisbjärrę tiðut um morgun
ja, taintj at ig minnes enn idag
Eð war djärå te wakken og si]å noð min ogum
men taintj at ig minnes enn idag
Og mun að mig yöpt at ig uld aut og lesa
og liet ]å mig graima og slätskupp og kesa
fer w]ið uldum að buðum
Uppter að Byssbuð dar uldum w]ið wail uoss
ja, taintj at ig minnes enn idag
Eð war djärå te f]å ollų kretję te baið uoss
ja, taintj at ig minnes enn idag
Fuost fikk ig tjyör diem og f]å diem inni ågån
og sę dugå old diem dar mes ig fikk noð i mågån
og oller uldum w]ið að buðum
Ja w]ið finggum boð iemtjinnað smyöreð og uostn
ja, taintj dig ig minnes enn idag
Ur guott eð war f]å liteð tjinnstjyr te kuostn
ja, taintj at ig minnes enn idag
Eð war blotbröð og rugsikt og kaffi te låpå
eð war bara te tegga so laindj an dugd gåpå
fer oller uldum w]ið að buðum
Men wartum boð stinner og fretjir og pigger
ja, taintj dig ig minnes enn idag
Ur estfuotjeð mojeð sig uppi sain djigger
ja, taintj at ig minnes enn idag
Dier tuog sig iett luk, ja bar sos midisin
fer te jåp eð te smelt eð dier add faið i kwiðn
og oller uld dier að buðum
Ig byrd ]å bli grettun og jälåk og lieð
og taintj at ig minnes enn idag
Ur knevlut eð war min iett skuognag so swieð
ja, taintj at ig minnes enn idag
Men ig wisst at w]ið warum ju snart dar w]ið uldum
Ig ärd ur eð suoräð uppi buðum, um kuldum
og w]ið uldum að buðum
Og snart so stuoðum w]ið mitt uppi tektn
ja, taintj at ig minnes enn idag
Ur fint eð war dar i såmårdrektn
ja, taintj at ig minnes enn idag
Og older för ar ig ärt noð so guott sos
mę buðkullą tykkt að mig: “Welkumin jųot”
Nų so war ig i buðum. Ja, nų so war ig i buðum



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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby Brynjolfr » 2010-07-03, 14:21

Looks like a Norwegian dialect. Trøndersk?
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby Quevenois » 2010-07-03, 14:23

Nej, det är inte.
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby Brynjolfr » 2010-07-03, 15:26

Jamska (Jamtlandic)?
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Re: Identify the langauge

Postby Śrāmaṇera » 2010-07-03, 15:40

Älvdalsmål ?


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