What language is this?

[Hartmut Haberland]

john at research.haifa.ac.il wrote:

>I don't know what I'm talking about, but the elis and uris look like
>Georgian to me.
>John
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Laz sounds like a good guess. Cf. 
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/caucasica/lazica/lazvok.htm. mskva 
apparently means 'beautiful' in Laz. Since Laz is Kartvelian (very close 
to, but not necessarily mutually intelligible with, Megrelian), Georgian 
is a cognate, too.
Hartmut

>Quoting Paul Hopper <hopper at cmu.edu>:
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>>Laz?
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>>>Does anyone recognize this language? I got this version of the lyrics off
>>>the Internet. Supposedly, it's Turkish, but a local Turkish speaker does
>>>not recognize ANY of the words.   The "v" varies among a /w/, /v/, and
>>>voiced bilabial fricative. The"?§" sounds like the voiceless alveopalatal
>>>affricate we spell "ch".  The "x" is a voiceless velar fricative.
>>>Otherwise, the letters have their IPA values. I have it on a collection of
>>>Turkish songs that one dances Turkish dances to. You can sample the song
>>>on the Internet, but I don't have the proper player software.
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>>>Help?
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>>>Ma bulur abu abu A mskva bozo memagu Memagusis Vixeli T ora kogovaxeli
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>>>Emine api?§xuri Da?§xur ore da?§xuri Moxti ?§kim opute??a Var gagnasen
>>>?§a?§xuri
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>>>Emine 3ulu 3ulu Burgulepe ma3unu Emine skani-??eni Tolepe omam3unu
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>>>Anderina na??k'vare Axir oxoriskani Mot var gokomocaman Gululun oraskani
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>>>Dr. Johanna Rubba, Associate Professor, Linguistics Linguistics Minor
>>>Advisor English Department California Polytechnic State University, San
>>>Luis Obispo E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu Tel.: 805.756.2184 Dept. Ofc. Tel.:
>>>805.756.2596 Dept. Fax: 805.756.6374 URL:
>>>http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
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