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What language is this?

  • 06-11-2011 11:07PM
    #1
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,120 ✭✭✭✭


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    Picture was taken on the top of an Alpine pass in Northern Italy

    It's clearly a romanic language, but I'm certain it is not Italian / Spanish / French / Portuguese. It might be Romanian but the location of the car (near Switzerland) makes me think it is Romansh

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



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  • #2
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    google translator seems to think it's either Indonesian or French depending on how much of it is typed in yet refuses to translate it.... so can't help


  • #3
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,120 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    psychward wrote: »
    google translator seems to think it's either Indonesian or French depending on how much of it is typed in yet refuses to translate it.... so can't help

    I think we need someone with a bit more sophistication than google translator :D

    It is neither French nor Indonesian for that matter :D

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • #4
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    unkel wrote: »
    I think we need someone with a bit more sophistication than google translator :D

    It is neither French nor Indonesian for that matter :D

    Hey Google translator isn't so bad if you use it as a dictionary. The problem is it didn't catch or detect a translation for any of the words.


  • #5
    GeeNorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭GeeNorm


    Googled a few of the words and it seems to be Romansch, one of 4 languages in switz. Never heard of it but seems likely


  • #6
    The Scientician
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭The Scientician


    It could be Lombard or Ladin both spoken in N. Italy.


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  • #7
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    If theres no conclusive answer later I will ask an aunt who has lived in Switzerland for the last 30 years.


  • #8
    Jemmaa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Jemmaa


    I think it could be Rhaeto-Romanic - Romance dialects spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland and northern Italy and the Tyrol


  • #9
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,120 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Googled "il pionier dal" and all 6 results point to Swiss websites. As Romansh is an official Swiss language, that must be it.

    @Jemmaa - I think Rhaeto-Romanic is the same as Romansh or the name of the group of languages that Romansh belongs to (but not the official name)

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • #10
    Jemmaa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Jemmaa


    unkel wrote: »
    Googled "il pionier dal" and all 6 results point to Swiss websites. As Romansh is an official Swiss language, that must be it.

    @Jemmaa - I think Rhaeto-Romanic is the same as Romansh or the name of the group of languages that Romansh belongs to (but not the official name)
    You're probably right
    Romansh is an umbrella term covering a group of closely related dialects spoken in southern Switzerland and all belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance language family. The other members of this language family are spoken in northern Italy. Ladin, to which Romansh is more closely related, is spoken by some 22,550 in the Dolomite mountains of Trentino, South Tyrol and the province of Belluno, and Friulian is spoken by between 550,000 and 595,000 people in northeastern Italy.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language


    Also
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian_language


  • #11
    Enkidu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭Enkidu


    It's Romance, specifically the standard dialect "Rumantsch Grischun", the language can be told from the verbs, the dialect from the first person singular pronoun being Jau. However it has the Puter dialect word "adüna", from the Engadin valley.

    It says:
    I am thirty years old and still loved,
    "Make of Car",
    Subaru, the original 4x4.


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