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From: Dan McGinn-Combs <d.mcginn-combs@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: What language is this?
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:05:53 -0500
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office@upmi.org wrote:
> 
> I have a book written in a language that I can not recognize.  It seems
> to be largely based on Latin, but various things about it (widespread
> use of the letter k, widespread use of the letter j at the end of words,
> etc.) do not seem to fit in with Latin-based real languages.  I think it
> is an artificial language.  It uses two diacritical marks ^ above c, g
> and s and an upside down curved ^ above the letter u (I will use ~ in my
> example and I will put the ^ and ~ before the letter that they go on top
> of.
> 
> ^Ce la fino de la dua mondmilito, ^guste kiam la vjetnama popolo, post
> preska~u unu jarcento de seninterrompaj bataloj kontra~u la franca
> koloniismo, forprenis per akra lukto sian sendependecon...
> 
> The book was printed in Hanoi in 1972 by Fremdlingva Eldonejo
> 
> If anyone recognizes this language, please let me know.

This sounds a lot like Esperanto.  The translation appears to begin:

"At the end of the second world war, just when the Vietnam People, after
nearly
one century of uninterrupted war against French Colonialism..."

You might want to check with Bruce Gilson, though, he is the best expert
on Esperanto I know. :-)

                                Bruce R. Gilson
                                email: brg@netcom.com

Dan McGinn-Combs
d.mcginn-combs@mindspring.com
Atlanta, Georgia

