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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2006-07-28 04:02 pm

Guessing game

Some time ago, I gurgled about the foreign language children's books that had rolled in, some of which I expected to make it across my desk eventually. Well, today I got my first batch: The non-Roman scripts no one else could handle. Which turned out to Arabo-Persian, Japanese, Korean, and...well, I'll let you figure this one out yourselves. I'll give you the first line of the text and you tell me what you think it is:
Хадны суусар шөнөжин бөгтгөнөж мод зөөв.
Stumped? "A marten that lived in the rocks collected twigs all night."

[identity profile] scathedobsidian.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it says, "Vrakka vrakka, you are ignorant of the meaning of this, vrakka vrakka."

[identity profile] wwidsith.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Bloody hell. I'll guess Kazakh, just because of the өs

[identity profile] snowy-owlet.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
That is fake Cyrillic, it is WRONG, and it makes my eyes hurt.

[identity profile] aadroma.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
It could be Azerbaijani ... though, I'd have to know when the book was written, since I know after 1991 the language switched to writing in Latin ...

[identity profile] alcarilinque.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Mongolian, or something related?

[identity profile] innerdoggie.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
What script did the Mongolians use before 1917, and what do they use now?