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<pre wrap="">"Onen tonsa kerisa serako ne tisa tia ta karha thon tsi te sepiaton ni sa
tis la kamon ne kina sa hi ni senkinenne..."
Googling around, I found virtually all the "pieces" (except <i>kamon
</i>and<i> sepiaton</i>) in an "Iroquois Indian Dialect" bible translation,
printed in Montreal in 1880:
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href="http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_02122/cihm_02122_djvu.txt">http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_02122/cihm_02122_djvu.txt</a>
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Time and location seem not a bad fit... be nicer if there were some
"8"s and capital "S"s sprinkled in...<br>
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(Sorry if this has been suggested already - I may have missed some
posts.)<br>
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Steve<br>
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Christopher Sundita wrote:
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<pre wrap="">When I saw the subject, I thought Finnish. But now that I've seen it, all the "ne" look like Albanian to me, but I don't think it is.
Other guesses.. somewhere in South or South East Asia.
Sorry I couldn't have been of any more help! But what is the context of the text?
--Chris Sundita
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, David Mead wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
I have a friend who teaches linguistics at Dartmouth University. He has been
asked to help identify the language of a 1911 document. Does the excerpt below
look familiar to anyone out there?
If you have a "hit" or a suggestion, I'd be happy to pass it on. This fits in
the "Oh, so you're a linguist. Can you ... ?" category of request, but maybe we
can do our profession proud for the Norwich Historical Society. :-)
Thanks much, David
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<pre wrap="">Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:46:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Tim Pulju <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:pulju@yahoo.com"><pulju@yahoo.com></a>
As it happens, I now have a passage for you. Just this morning, someone
gave me a transcript of a document found in the archives of the Norwich
Historical society, dated 1911. (Norwich is a small town near Dartmouth).
The transcript reads:
"Onen tonsa kerisa serako ne tisa tia ta karha thon tsi te sepiaton ni sa
tis la kamon ne kina sa hi ni senkinenne..."
They're wondering what language it is. To me, it looks like it could be
Austronesian. Any thoughts?
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