What language is this?

[john at research.haifa.ac.il]

I don't know what I'm talking about, but the elis and uris look like
Georgian to me.
John



Quoting Paul Hopper <hopper at cmu.edu>:

> Laz?
>
>
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Help?
> >
> > Ma bulur abu abu A mskva bozo memagu Memagusis Vixeli T ora kogovaxeli
> >
> > Emine api?§xuri Da?§xur ore da?§xuri Moxti ?§kim opute??a Var gagnasen
> > ?§a?§xuri
> >
> > Emine 3ulu 3ulu Burgulepe ma3unu Emine skani-??eni Tolepe omam3unu
> >
> > Anderina na??k'vare Axir oxoriskani Mot var gokomocaman Gululun oraskani
> >
> >
> > 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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