Onen tonsa kerisa ...

[David Mead]

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


>Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:46:38 -0800 (PST)
>From: Tim Pulju <pulju at yahoo.com>
>
>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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