qwed117 wrote: ↑27 Dec 2020 20:02
Wolani? Basing this merely off the fact that Wikipedia claims to have a link to Paradisec materials with Wolani
No
Wikipedia's coverage of Paradisec as a source is very irregular. The data are original, if that helps. I got them from a speaker myself.
Ekari? It's the most spoken Paniai Lakes language, after all.
Re: Guess The Language 2
Posted: 27 Dec 2020 20:52
by Creyeditor
qwed117 wrote: ↑27 Dec 2020 20:26
Ekari? It's the most spoken Paniai Lakes language, after all.
Yes You are the winner.
I was afraid that I mentioned the language too often in other threads. The language is known as Mee or Mee Mana ("human language") by its speakers. The text is part of a folk song called . Here is the whole text with a line by line translation. I am afraid I got the glosses on my other computer.
Creyeditor wrote: ↑10 Mar 2022 23:21
Spoken in Asia?
No.
Re: Guess The Language 2
Posted: 11 Mar 2022 01:48
by Acipencer
Is it spoken in West Africa?
Re: Guess The Language 2
Posted: 11 Mar 2022 02:48
by Nortaneous
Notable traits:
- Labial-velars
- /gl/
- Final consonants: <n ŋ ʼ>
- Vowels: /a ɛ ʌ ɔ e ɤ o i ɯ u/
- Contrastive vowel length?
- Five level tones?
Probably Mande or weird Bantoid. Dan? (But a different dialect from the one described on WIkipedia - maybe Kla-Dan? The Kla-Dan in Makeeva 2013 looks pretty similar.)
Re: Guess The Language 2
Posted: 12 Mar 2022 21:09
by opipik
Nortaneous wrote: ↑11 Mar 2022 02:48
[...] Probably Mande or weird Bantoid. Dan? (But a different dialect from the one described on WIkipedia - maybe Kla-Dan? The Kla-Dan in Makeeva 2013 looks pretty similar.)
Yes (though it looks more like Kru, not Grassfields!) - it's indeed Dan, Eastern, to be precise - the new orthography makes it look kinda like a conlang! The apostrophe is actually a way to mark contour tones on short syllables - but I don't know precisely how does it work.
Re: Guess The Language 2
Posted: 14 Mar 2022 13:47
by Nortaneous
Wə̀ jə̀ ə́ ŋmu᷇ kú ŋkúŋ, tá ké má à sé, wə̀ jə̀ ə́Ʒi᷇ kə̀kpàn kə̀ ɲúə̄ nə́ kíə̀. Ŋkúŋ á bi᷄ nà á Ʒí ɲìà. Wə̀ ā sīnə́ gɛ ᷄ ná kə̀kpàn ŋkúŋ á gɛ́ nā ja̋ mī bá kə̀dú. Mbàŋkə̀bɔ́ŋ á fə́sə́ kə̀kpàn á ja̋ ŋkúŋ wō, wǎ jí. Ká wə̀ ŋmú fə́lə́ wǎ gɛ́ á dzɔ́ŋ wɛ́ ɲū kə́ túə̄fə.
Re: Guess The Language 2
Posted: 16 Mar 2022 12:48
by opipik
Very obviously Grassfields, but besides that I have no clue.
Re: Guess The Language 2
Posted: 22 Mar 2022 01:16
by Nortaneous
opipik wrote: ↑16 Mar 2022 12:48
Very obviously Grassfields, but besides that I have no clue.
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