Thanks for your help Thread poster: Tabitha Ashura
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We're headed back to our client to figure out more.
[Edited at 2013-05-07 20:06 GMT]
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Ty Kendall 
United Kingdom
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Hebrew to English
| Any clues in where you got it from? | May 7, 2013 |
I'm guessing it doesn't belong in the Roman alphabet, probably a transliteration.
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Tabitha Ashura
United States
Local time: 03:27
German to English
TOPIC STARTER
That's a good start! Anyone sounding it out and seeing their language?
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Thayenga
Germany
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it might be an African language, most probably spoken by only a few people or tribes.
It does remind me of Swaheli, thus this continent. A web search showed no results.
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| With Arabic imprints? | May 7, 2013 |
Tabitha Ashura wrote:
...Weld el Mahza...
child of Mahza?
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Sergio Altuna (X)
Spain
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| I thought the same thing | May 7, 2013 |
Philippe Etienne wrote: Tabitha Ashura wrote:
...Weld el Mahza... child of Mahza?
When I first saw that part this morning I thought the same but I couldn´t guess anything else from the other parts.
I do not think that is Arabic; I am quite used to transliteration of several dialects (mobile phone writing) and doesn´t look like arabic to me.
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Sergio Altuna wrote:
...I do not think that is Arabic; I am quite used to transliteration of several dialects (mobile phone writing) and doesn´t look like arabic to me.
The rest doesn't sound Arabic to me either, but I thought the language could be spoken in a muslim country/region.
Or maybe somebody replaced a with space, space with e, d with a, p with w, etc.
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Tabitha Ashura
United States
Local time: 03:27
German to English
TOPIC STARTER | I appreciate everyone trying | May 7, 2013 |
we've still had no luck. I've been writing bunches of people and have ruled out almost 45 rarer languages. I will let you all know if I ever find out!
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Tabitha Ashura
United States
Local time: 03:27
German to English
TOPIC STARTER
We'll try contacting Palauan linguists!
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Ty Kendall
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:27
Hebrew to English
| Not sure it is Palauan | May 7, 2013 |
Not only are those language identifiers notoriously dodgy, but the Palauan language lacks:
a voiced alveolar fricative ("z")
a voiceless glottal fricative ("h")
a voiceless labio-dental fricative ("f")
Which all seem to appear in the sentence:
zwinotto bur hiljaffa Weld el Mahza Kiwatazouri miamata el whoebi
(Presuming this representation is relatively phonetic).
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Natalie
Poland
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MODERATOR SITE LOCALIZER | Hello Tabitha | May 16, 2013 |
It is a pity you removed your initial post as the whole thread became hardly comprehensible.
I am mowing it to the Linguistics forum, anyway.
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Tabitha Ashura
United States
Local time: 03:27
German to English
TOPIC STARTER
Sorry to kill the thread but the client requested I remove it at the time and I wasn't able to figure out how to delete it.
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