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What Language Is This?
By Matt Margolis | December 16, 2004
It is beyond strange when I check my site’s traffic statistics and find that I’m getting hits from people who actually Google my name. What are people looking for about me? Anyway, clicking through this stalker-like Google query, I found a webpage in some language I cannot determine that cites a number of conservative blogs, including both my sites, Blogs For Bush and this one, and Scott Sala’s site Slant Point . The article was published the day after the election. I’ve tried a couple languages using Google’s webpage translator to determine the language. I suspected Portuguese — it didn’t work. It’s not Spanish, even though it looks similar to Spanish…
Any ideas?
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December 17th, 2004 at 1:17 am
I tried it with italian. Didn’t really work, although it did translate a few of the words here and there. Might be Romanian or an uncommon dialect of one of the romance languages.
December 17th, 2004 at 5:41 am
We have the answer! I’m Silvia Llombart, the director of laMalla.net, this digital newspaper you are trying to discover the language. We write in Catalan, the language we speak in Catalonia. Catalonia is a region in the north-east of Spain wich is bilingual, we speak Catalan and Spanish. Our digital newspaper is only written in Catalan. If you want to read us, here you have an oline translator Catalan- English. (http://www.comprendium.es/index_demo_text_ca.html) We hope you visit us often.
December 18th, 2004 at 12:49 am
Thanks!