It didn’t muck with my numbers in Post #12. I think that’s because I didn’t indent the numbered lines.
3. xx
5. yy
8. zz
Oh wait! I get it! It’s because I didn’t leave a blank line just before the first of the numbered lines! If I just add a blank line before the line “3. xx” then it auto-indents AND auto-renumbers all the numbered lines. Now we know!
ETA: And in Post #19 by Kimble, looks like Discourse left his numbers alone because he put a colon instead of a period after each numbers.
Just to put my pedant hat on, “Bahasa” is just the word “language” in Indonesian. So “Bahasa Indonesia” literally means “Indonesian language.” “Bahasa Inggris” means “English language,” “Bahasa Perancis” means French language, and so on.
So it’s like hearing someone say, “the tongue spoken in America is the English Language” and then telling people, "I know the name of what they speak in America! The name of their language is “Language!”
But so many people who don’t speak Indonesian have made that mistake that Indonesians themselves have started to give in and call their native tongue “Bahasa.” So you’re wrongish, but not totally wrong.
Number 54 might be Igbo (a Nigerian language). Asusu Igbo is how Wikipedia has it - that says Ibo asusu, which might be a variant or a misspelling
Ignorance fought! Thank you.
36 Choctaw
47 Ilocano
49 Navajo
50 Albanian
58 Marshallese
(found by googling a few words from each line)
59 looks like Burmese
55 is Nepalese (the word “Nepali” appears in it)
I see there’s no Hindi or Urdu on the list yet. Also, if the inclusion criteria are “languages spoken in the US” then Bengali, Telugu, Gujarati, Tamil and Punjabi probably map to some of the more exotic scripts.
But I don’t know which ones.
17 looks like fucked up Hindi. Some of the vowel markers are in the wrong places, which can happen if the software settings are wrong or if someone is typing it without knowing how the language works.
18 looks like Ethiopian
22 looks like Cambodian
19 looks like Gujarati
23 is Panjabi
24 is fucked up Bengali—again either software settings got screwed up or the writer doesn’t know the language.
As nearly as I can tell, given Discourse’s propensity to screw things up, the remaining unidentified languages are 16, 23, 36, 41, 43, 44, 48, 53, 57, and 58.
I’ve created a new image of the ones left and put it here:
Remaining - 1.
44 (“Na ye jam nē Thuɔŋjaŋ, ke kuɔny yenē…”) may be Dinka:
Emphasis on the Thuɔŋjaŋ.
I’m basically just googling the words that look like the language names. For Latin alphabets.
#58 Kajin Majōl = Marshallese
#33 Chahta is Choctaw
Wait, no, 27 is Ethiopian. 18 is something else.
22 and 28 are Thai and Cambodian but I can’t tell which is which.
It looks to me like a lot of the Indian scripts are messed up. And by extension that might mean that a lot of the non-Western ones might be too.
Yes, I was wondering how many of the languages were not fucked up. Eg out of the Semitic languages, Arabic was fucked-up, the Syriac I think also(??), someone mentioned Hebrew but I did not see any, there was backwards fucked-up Yiddish though
Yes. 25 is Yiddish, not Hebrew, with both the word order and letter order reversed.
hsilgnE eb dluow sIhT.
Have we seen Armenian or Georgian? I’m trying to think of writing that I wouldn’t immediately recognize.