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shimobaatar wrote:
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shimobaatar wrote:Is it spoken in Asia?
Yes [:)]
Southwest Asia/the Middle East?
Nope
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sangi39 wrote:
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sangi39 wrote:
shimobaatar wrote:Is it spoken in Asia?
Yes [:)]
Southwest Asia/the Middle East?
Nope
Southeast Asia, then?
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shimobaatar wrote:
sangi39 wrote:
shimobaatar wrote:
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shimobaatar wrote:Is it spoken in Asia?
Yes [:)]
Southwest Asia/the Middle East?
Nope
Southeast Asia, then?
Not there either, I'm afraid.
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South/South-Central Asia? If not, I'm a bit stumped… I could have sworn that was from somewhere in the southern half of the continent.
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shimobaatar wrote:South/South-Central Asia? If not, I'm a bit stumped… I could have sworn that was from somewhere in the southern half of the continent.
Not there either [:)]
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Oh, jeez… Uh, is it part of a language family that some might include in the Altaic hypothesis (Turkic, Tungusic, Mongolic, Japonic, Koreanic, Ainu…)?
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shimobaatar wrote:Oh, jeez… Uh, is it part of a language family that some might include in the Altaic hypothesis (Turkic, Tungusic, Mongolic, Japonic, Koreanic, Ainu…)?
Not as far as I've ever seen, no.
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Wow, I am striking out here.

Is it at least spoken in Northern Asia?
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Is it a Yukaghir language?

/e: I think I found it. It's Kolyma Yukaghir, isn't it?
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Avo wrote:Is it a Yukaghir language?

/e: I think I found it. It's Kolyma Yukaghir, isn't it?
There you go [:)]
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Next, Avo?
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Yes. Some randomly selected sentences:
De šak iqqo zekes ɣwede regi riqanutɬʼo
Haɬo sumkama teɬ xemu gorono hado tɬaxa gom
Hoboži obusno hes de tɬexwes goɬ hes
Nagaħ zo hibaɬu untimoqos hezor utiyome di mežuqo amanat
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Tsez?
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Not Tsez
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Avo wrote:Not Tsez
Is it Northeast Caucasian?
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Lostlang plans: Oghur Turkic, Gallaecian Celtic, Palaeo-Balkanic
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Well yes, that's the paper I got the sentences from. [:|]
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What an amazing coincidence that they just happened to be quite familiar with that paper and its contents off of the top of their head… no search engines or anything needed.
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I guessed Tsez based on a similarity in the phoneme inventory based on what Wikipedia had to offer. I'm so annoyed that I was so very, very close but not quite correct! [:P]
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@Zythros Jubi: Next?
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