What language does Google Translate think your conlang is?

[Trailsend]

I put in two responses from a recent discussion on the CONLANG list:

Ík Koloráido mí eshithánthivin, ík Aláiska tenaìkuónkish. Déi mí eshithálmoòvin ashóanuè zizhóanuè tekáaiku. Náa goìán shí nùuvóazha shí nùevóas eshithásoòvin. Náa shíi, mosithások zhoskóahaliskazha, sisàovié íng kizhoskozhavinthiézhuthùira.

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Gí ué! Ík anitháktiìshìe tekáaikoloridoku, ík tenaìkónthisùosh, gí shí tekéeiku shí oànìeshléi mivívinilkus.


The first identified as Faroese (ha!) and the two combined came back as Yoruba (awesome!).

I am amused :P

[rickardspaghetti]

What does "gí ué!" mean? "How fun!"?

[Trailsend]

Kinda, yeah. Shows merriment or amusement in response to what just happened--"lol." :P

[conlangconstructor]

Lol, this might be something I begin to do a lot in my spare time :P

Winnic - shows up as Polish:
ruwcynnyssu ry wuccyff baccy. bbywceffowd ycu rafuwddawwe ryff cowwoffe ry-ywwy, bwy ccyfynnyffawu ry cywff dywwy cowwowewwy. ycy-rafarewwy caffywddawwe cywwdde ycy-baccawwywynny bwuwffynne. ffawyddo cawwywddennawssu ry wuccowy caffywddawwowynne. dywwo ffererowssu ry ywwyw, bannuwwuwo ddywnnywwaffewssu ry ry-baccawwywynny. yw-ccennewwuddywd wucc, ccanneddywnnywwaffew effarerywdynne cuwuwccuwddebbyww wuccywccy, bwy sswywd ycu ryff ffebbawuwwe ffareccuwddywddyw cywwdde ycy-bbuwywddywssuwwy. ccywccannewwyddyws ffareccuwddywddyw buwffebbawuwwynne yw-ffyssanynne. ywwa wucc-baruwwydynne, nnuwunnabbew.

...

Jevadan - shows up as Croatian:
Pijuvicz Jvlieko Hiviesco pijuvicz hiliazzo czivuzzcco gicc Invomg Ja Jidvg 1687. Ja Jidv scivarj jsziric jtiscniscevarijo sriczviatijo jvliekijo jgviszy, sccza scpiraczj scczilo piosscimgj szifriszgj Tomoszo Jvliekojo 1655. Invom Ja Jidv piscaviscj Czimascczié Scczarejo 1686 y szcilj maszkite jgviszy sztoporejo scevejo: Milacze, Tiume y Pirice. Ja Jidv pisztiri cztate scimitinejo sztar jgviszgy protygo. Prisziviatj szote jvladejo 1687 sztij.

...which isn't as ridiculous as Winnic-Polish,

Dalic - shows up as German:
Ňdzok mapurin davon. Keme davoň bulbur. Řdas makil vadad! Hmac řde pravit...nomasin hmas. Přan ňô!

...not a part of my "Pagan languages", but I wanted to find out what Google Translate would think it was. Also, fyi, Ogian is showing up as Turkish - which isn't bad at all (e.g. da sya güzeli - I am find/good)

[Testyal]

I did "dormorgtuu aat ogiitii hortiis kokofiigreim yaat"
which means "do you like to tickle sharp puzzles?". Pretty random.

It came up as Malay

[Ilaeriu]

I first posted "Amae aeil" (Our Father), and it interpreted it as Filipino. (Unsurprising, since I base a lot of my lexicon on it... ama > amae > father.)

Then I pasted the entire prayer text:

Amae aeil,
Auunlannakua kkauu nun laeta
Iauaeaka jaruun kkilu.
Arijiatalae arikkar kkilu
Insunllialae iaarikua kkilu
Nun tiraen tulaen nun laeta.
Ialau, auunlagihae mi art aeil nun auat alau.
Al atilalimet kkauu maeia ikae kae sifera aeil
Tulaen auunlalimet mi siferanno aeil
Al atitiamunnaelae maeia nun iuuani,
Al atilaetas mi nun sifer si kkaliu,
Amaen.

And it said "We are not yet able to translate from Esperanto into English." :D

[loftyD]

I entered some Ropbiin: "Ĉala Ho pra geteidba." onto Google Translate. Seems to think it's Portuguese... :D

Then I entered some Úlanůba:

Spoiler:

Hesgal pojnů ga David Cameron jån opni divisjon taf Washington á polis economica á svénokojun di G20 ga lefgé á Toronto, Canadú. Géhús di Barack Obama ten évůtů újas di CE, dasbuhna CB, hyn jajnyn kutám economica avransal taf program tasar houk sáht. Cameron yhbanů 200 kilomestro á Toronto dó Deerhurst, nera lisder di G8 pavéjů adoj, taf Obama á Marine One, helicoptera lefgéla.

Haha. Thinks it's Icelandic!

Then some old samples of my first conlang "Draconì".

Spoiler:

J’ôpanop asseteran mu haçek. Te me kegenta ! J’alé evon la màcìğcan. J’ôpanop las abré en la parùta. Kel me ôpanopabenfa topìlìğass. Je nesenga evon mu hus. Je nebéğùa travẃnass deman. Je no sseben wut…

. Thinks my first conlang is Dutch.

[Darkgamma]

Well, I typed in a senteance, Ashah kuhitei denum, deni kara denum, and as I typed, it churned out Uzbek, French, Estonian, Maltese, Malai, Yoruba and eventually settled on Turkish or Maltese (varies each time). The result was
A) Ashah kuhitei denum, Kara denum fever. (Maltese)
B) Sheet kuhitei denum. Denum Deni land. (Turkish)

The senteance is I love you, you were you in Kti. Obviously Google Translate has some things wrong :)

[Toko]

I tried some sentences and got very, very mixed results, even ones that changed as I typed each word :-P

One I typed in was kuna echi ne heka yu doko ite hachi ko ne hanuka.

Google seems to think this Estonian sentence translates to "ne as ECHI HEKA yu ite doko hachi ko ne Hanukkah" :-|

In actuality this Zainese sentence was said by well known Hunzai politician Mushi Nasaru Yoki, and means roughly "If one thinks about something, someone else has already created porn of it".

Quite unrelated really :-)

[Curlyjimsam]

It guesses the first two verses of the Greater Atlian Babel text -

Yibzu, kasse Sseenkirussi ühussii usso lu ohoyi. Ussehu mu ssireyi u kotessi, kaassihu oowoonessido pokai samupu u Ssinaressi, u poru u tarrau.

- as Finnish.

(Which happens to be what I predicted it would guess - the orthography does bear quite a strong superficial resemblence to Finnish, although this is basically accidental.)

[peterofthecorn]

It detected

Qhasas alohab nn shimac u nn qarat.

as Danish. (while I was typeing, it went through Vietnamese, English, Italian, Czech, and finall Danish.)

It (obviously) detected it as Hebrew when I used a Hebrew orthography.
עַסַס אַלֹהַבּ נּ שִמקּ אֻ נּ עַּרַתּ

It detected

Ka dikoba totereth epikoam khen ka dikoam khen.
Ka kikhor kinobat ektranatam bikao methge Thinaru. Dhobat kitop.
Ka dikobatuthi, "Kinoca, barocao tulbo, ka altrocat trakho." Ka phrorat tulbo petrao ka chamar margamakho.

as Basque.

and when I put in

Kal khen epikan kal dikan khen tal elesam kaghu`~.
Kal kiakholal eklalantak leghetu`~ bikaz mesalgak Sinarag, kal zu`~ kiatopan.
Kal diku`~o'`~ [Kinoao~, tulbim baloao~, kal tlakhen atlu~.] Kal tulbin petliz kal ghaman malgamaz folo`~.

it said "We are not yet able to translate from Sundanese into English."

and when I put in

plUng hwE
sEng hwEngork [f]mI Ung [f]mO Upf plUsh.

it says "We are not yet able to translate from Breton into English."

[masako]

It tells me that Alel is Portuguese and/or Maltese.

It tells me that Kala is Vietnamese/Malay/Filipino depending on which sample I use.

[rickardspaghetti]

What does it say about Qatama?

[masako]

What does it say about Qatama?

Swedish, and then Portuguese.

I think Portuguese might just be the default for any lang written with the latin alphabet that isn't recognizable.

[aereastra]

The bloody thing often detects my conlang as 'English detected'.
Once, it returned a message saying 'We are not yet able to translate from Latin to English'!

That made me crack up like WTF, because my conlang has basic latin derivatives and the program didn't recognise it in all that time... stupid program!

[Colzie]

I entered the snippet:

Málkut safarástu vilsi wal?
Ali śtilt alujamberlofis yuniyufis pifcisufis prawátaŋu sul mit dosta.
Ral...safalástu vilsi wal, gal nit?
Alan triktin rirrátku vilmi, yag alse śtilti mi dístu vilmi. Nu alan śtiltin alujamberlofis yuniyufis pifcisufis masátku vilmi.


And got Croatian. It cycled through English, Danish, and Indonesian while typing.
At least it got 3/4 Indo-European languages, which my conlang is.

[Sankon]

"O mavaha si naeied eaibiení mvaɫórungang ngangapráz ongo o maha ngaembré ongapuinúngang, ongo o maha ngahmarí ongapuinúngang, ongo o zenúd cire ongapuinúngang, ptiasei mantóy. O mvaha ngangapázoy, “Buru maing mai ogihu, kway o zenúd ngangapráz ongapung ptiaseieming.” buc." is apparently French (because of that measly "si"). Else it's Malay.

[hadad]

English, polish, danish, french, italian, spanish, Romanian. It's in the right ballpark of what it's based off suprisingly.
I did this:
Oulruuts litdou rouma
All roads lead to Rome

[Kehgrehdid]

Fedrelar: "Libronehl abenezhon kim nengobedehn kam podemlengarm abathre enrungugok enkethebos." Google switches between German and Albanian, but more Albanian.

"The father teaches the son who does not obey with the rod of correction at night in the house." Literally, "is-teaching ACC-son [he-not-continuously-obeys] INSTR-"rod of correction" NOM-father LOC-night LOC-house." I am hoping to get more info up soon, but it's an agglutinating language. There is no equivalent of the English /h/, so that character always modifies the sound it comes after. "eh" is open mid-central, "zh" is voiced postalveolar fricative, "ng" is nasal velar, "dh" is voiced dental fricative, "th" is unvoiced dental fricative. (I haven't gotten the hang of using unicode just yet, nor have I turned the script into something I can put online.)

[Zio Zihk]

Gvirat: Vrat ki Zijo ja. Vat tso tsvat jo dizmi tikhi, jivem lji krikhi ti. Gvirat sva khrja ti.

Switched back and forth between Serbian and Croatian before settling on Croatian. Pretty good guess over all since I based the phonology off Russian.