Raw verse

[muckefuck]

Passing by the foreign children's books shelf today, I noticed some new arrivals, including a text in Thai which is going to suck up a sizable chunk of time. (Whoever thinks English spelling is the worst ever has clearly never dealt with Southeast Asian orthographies.) There's one in a Turkic language of the former USSR. I'm curious how much sense it makes to those of you who have studied more Turkish than I have, so I'm including a whole short poem transliterated into a Latin script based on that of Anatolian Turkish.

Uramda cil qış yörep
Küpme tirgeş aşadım.
Ä xäzer cil mine qa--
Şäp maşina yasadım.

Älek tirgeş kenä alsam,
Xäzer büläklär alam,
Yarışlarda malaylarnı
Artta kaldırıp çabam.

Nindi maşina ul, diep
Dusqay, teñkägä timä,
Cildän citez maşinabız
Bula--cilkänlä köymä!

Can anyone name the language? And, more importantly, can anyone make sense of it?

Comments

[his-regard.livejournal.com]

All I know is that English totally needs the word "xazer".

[alcarilinque.livejournal.com]

A xeroxing tazer?

[fainic-thu-fein.livejournal.com]

Tatar? Just a shot in the dark, really.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

But one steered to its target by many hints: It is indeed Kazan Tatar. The Latin script was official until four years ago when the Russian Federation outlawed non-Cyrillic scripts.

[fainic-thu-fein.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Was the Latin script routinely used for other languages spoken within the Russian Federation or was Tatar unique in that respect?