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Esperanto langauge detection

by Pharoah, February 19, 2010

Messages: 17

Language: English

Rogir (User's profile) February 22, 2010, 4:20:06 PM

No, Google Translate does recognise Esperanto, and pretty accurately too, but it cannot translate it.

erinja (User's profile) February 22, 2010, 5:29:09 PM

I guess it's just my Google Chrome plugin for Google Translate that doesn't recognize it.

Usually it suggests that I translate the page into English from Italian or Croatian, when I navigate to an Esperanto page.

Greyshades (User's profile) February 28, 2010, 1:23:32 AM

erinja:Any word ending in -aj is likely Esperanto, and even more so -ajn. Likewise with -oj and -ojn.

Google Translate most often assumes Esperanto is a slavic language, perhaps because of the frequent J's, and the placement of those J's.
I had to laugh, even though your correct, I'm taking Spanish and the Spanish word for "watch" or "clock" is el reloj. Silent J, though.

Hispanio (User's profile) February 28, 2010, 1:51:51 AM

Yes. In fact, we pronounce reloj in this way: reloĥ, with the stress on the o, and a strong sound on the r, as in rocket.

Pharoah (User's profile) February 28, 2010, 4:56:44 AM

I was just about to say that I guess it depends on where you're from, but I've definitely heard it pronounced. It seems that in Spain you hear the J come through more strongly than in Latin America, though.

ceigered (User's profile) February 28, 2010, 5:06:03 AM

Mia reloj rulis sur la reloj kaj la treno venas.

Why the watch can roll, I have no idea. Maybe its a pocket watch lango.gif

darkweasel (User's profile) February 28, 2010, 10:43:19 AM

I as an Esperantist learning Spanish naturally have problems reading out loud the word reloj because this OJ-ending is something so typical for Esperanto that I immediately forget that J is Ĥ in Spanish. malgajo.gif

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