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Google kinde went between Dutch, German and Swedish with my conlang, wich I think is okey since it is supposed to be a germanic language
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Pirka wrote:What did you expect? You changed literally one letter.
It wouldn't be the first time a single letter altered Google Translate's identification of a piece of text.
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Google Translate "detect language" says Ł ł TŁ tł ɣ ɟ is English.
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For me, Google Translate thinks "Hâtô klä ma'naka Fätäki ka'ii'nâm'ää." is Malay.
It means "Together with Fred, I slapped him using a Fish."

However, it thinks that "Phurutu âmva'â pfääkhôtsä klä aphüñ'âñ'ää. I klä Kre'neñmee'ni'äkämne ku'nu'ä'âm'ää ta?" is Swedish.
This was from the fluency thread on the ZBB. It means "I think it's the name of his language. Am I correct, GrinningManiac?"

It looks like neither to me. [:S]
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Esmelthien wrote:For me, Google Translate thinks "Hâtô klä ma'naka Fätäki ka'ii'nâm'ää." is Malay.
It means "Together with Fred, I slapped him using a Fish."

However, it thinks that "Phurutu âmva'â pfääkhôtsä klä aphüñ'âñ'ää. I klä Kre'neñmee'ni'äkämne ku'nu'ä'âm'ää ta?" is Swedish.
This was from the fluency thread on the ZBB. It means "I think it's the name of his language. Am I correct, GrinningManiac?"

It looks like neither to me. [:S]
THAT is not swedish. Swedish don't even have half of those diacritics. The only word that looks swedish is ta (to take somthing).
Also, wich word is "Fred"?
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Stammalor wrote:
Esmelthien wrote:For me, Google Translate thinks "Hâtô klä ma'naka Fätäki ka'ii'nâm'ää." is Malay.
It means "Together with Fred, I slapped him using a Fish."

However, it thinks that "Phurutu âmva'â pfääkhôtsä klä aphüñ'âñ'ää. I klä Kre'neñmee'ni'äkämne ku'nu'ä'âm'ää ta?" is Swedish.
This was from the fluency thread on the ZBB. It means "I think it's the name of his language. Am I correct, GrinningManiac?"

It looks like neither to me. [:S]
THAT is not swedish. Swedish don't even have half of those diacritics. The only word that looks swedish is ta (to take somthing).
Also, wich word is "Fred"?
Fätäki is Fred (Fätä) in comitative form. For 'Fred,' I had to choose between Fätä and Prätä, and I think Fätä just sounds better. Also, 'i' and 'ta' are question particles.
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I started writing a little story in Waceu:
Ca mwena we ca uppu

Me nei ca mwena, we ca uppu. Ko kenei a ca mwena mo ca uppu: «Uppu kamaa maru, nime kiwe o mai» Co kipe a ca uppu ca mwena. «Mi wacci coppi cewa mai?», kenei a ca mwena. «E keli coppi o mai» Ko punuu ca uppu me api. «E mila», eica a ca uppu. «me ceki kace» «E nei mweco caima?» loke a ca mwena.
GT thinks it's Swahili.
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Google Translate thinks that
tx'árúc
cqinrúc
pranrúc
ma'rúc
qtzérúc
'acarúc
is French.
Weird.
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2-4 wrote:Google Translate thinks that
tx'árúc
cqinrúc
pranrúc
ma'rúc
qtzérúc
'acarúc
is French.
Weird.
Yes. Especially since it's obviously Basque.

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I typed some Selinki language (Dmy sony badaj elonica, dmy sony lendole he, et ridzneky, et shkudajy he trinkose badaj ie. A dy he dhqrjenilon, komole dmy igartjy, et bosmo bosmo klegeicao projdaole ladnemy).

At first I got Polish, then English, Slovenian and the final result was Albanian!
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Some I Ichi:
Huvata huvah, sa puthuta taur busil ahin.

Apparently this is Finnish.
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As a swede, I can say that it is "puthuta".
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I decided to try a few sentences from this list in Lusaŋki.

Google Translate thinks "Theka salash pa na shem rasa viuset," (wild animals once lived here) is Filipino, which it then attempted to translate to "Theka salash been Shem viuset race."

On the other hand, "Iveva alisash kota kushiash shanuta," (lovely flowers are growing everywhere) was detected as Swahili and translated to "Iveva he Sash kushiash shanuta crook."

One more interesting one was "Pela-kasha si ka sheka salaiset," (the kitten jumped onto the table), which Google Translated detected as Finnish and translated to "Races in Kasha-si ka sheka secret."
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Apparently my language is a mixture of swahili and finnish, after I shoved "zyataikisotihtotonii chishki tash yiga' chiti" into its box.
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Taida ŋ-ản ex tỉvuo ḋun gouṁ ga, ŋ-ản poŋ ản togu-x tỉvuo dẻji mỷl ga. Ṡu-x ḃuori voda ḋuo-x pảŋri vy ṡuṁ ga.
Is... apparently French.

Ŋe dả sa zuoġ dẻji vỷc ga? Ŋe xảna xouxaṁ ga ŋe douxai ṡaṁ ga. Ŋe pỉna ciou sa ḃataṁ nẻ.
Same language, apparently Galician.

Ản gao la, ản gao la! Ŋe liŋ haliŋ huoc ḃảc ga? Vaji zuṁ ga. Ŋ-ản ỷmiṁ ga.
Same language again... and it's Swahili.
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A galm alfskouvthutrreek ireek ultwegkaiernfya
I cannot burn the forest

is apprently basque
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I think short samples are going to throw things off. I tried a few short samples and got Indonesian, Bulgarian and Italian. Using two larger samples (around 60 words) I got Indonesian both times.
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I used this paragraph, just a bunch or example sentences stuck together:

Dehuna narlew zetrlaxanararl aurane axun amalz. Azlaral nol valan tzli ffrauma unslln llzlana rlafllte. Zullaral faum lu ffossara fez ila flln ulsararla sol senne ne auso ttana defen. Luttlema raln ezll ulsararla farl llsuzlola lelzle uamasararla rlatamll narla dexx ssllhu ttan ffra unsa len allu warl fll ttlallar.

When I pasted one sentence at a time, I got Basque, Turkish, and Azerbaijani. When I "wiped" the page and pasted the whole paragraph at once, it just sat there. Google Translate has learned to recognize that my language doesn't exist!
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