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Guess the language from the gloss!

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This is just like the other guess the language game, but rather than guessing from a text, you have to guess from a gloss of a text or glosses of several sentences, with a translation but without the text itself. Thus, you have to guess based on the language's grammatical features rather than its orthographical features. As in the other game, Googling is cheating.

I'll start:

Sam yesterday what bought.3sg
What did Sam buy yesterday?

I book.PL read.1sg to professor become.1sg
I read books to become a professor.

I flower water sprayed.1sg
I watered (the) flowers.

I went.1sg that buy.1sg
I left in order to buy.

all one song ear.dur.give.3sg
Everybody listens to a/same song.

(Note: "dur" indicates the durative aspect)
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Is it spoken in East Asia?
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qwed117 wrote:Is it spoken in East Asia?
[cross]
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Is it spoken on the continent of Eurasia?
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Creyeditor wrote:Is it spoken on the continent of Eurasia?
[tick]
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Spoken in Asia?
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qwed117 wrote:Spoken in Asia?
[tick]
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Is SOV the unmarked word order?
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Creyeditor wrote:Is SOV the unmarked word order?
[tick]
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Is there a clear cut distinction between verbs and nouns?
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Creyeditor wrote:Is there a clear cut distinction between verbs and nouns?
That seems to be the case, at least morphologically. [tick]
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North of the Himalayas?
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qwed117 wrote:North of the Himalayas?
[tick]
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GrandPiano wrote:
qwed117 wrote:North of the Himalayas?
[tick]
Central Asia?
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qwed117 wrote:
GrandPiano wrote:
qwed117 wrote:North of the Himalayas?
[tick]
Central Asia?
One variety is spoken in Central Asia. [tick]
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GrandPiano wrote:
qwed117 wrote:
GrandPiano wrote:
qwed117 wrote:North of the Himalayas?
[tick]
Central Asia?
One variety is spoken in Central Asia. [tick]
Are there varieties spoken in Northern Asia?
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qwed117 wrote:
GrandPiano wrote:
qwed117 wrote:
GrandPiano wrote:
qwed117 wrote:North of the Himalayas?
[tick]
Central Asia?
One variety is spoken in Central Asia. [tick]
Are there varieties spoken in Northern Asia?
There are speakers in Russia, but I am fairly certain that Russia is not one of the primary countries in which it is spoken.
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GrandPiano wrote:
qwed117 wrote:
GrandPiano wrote:
qwed117 wrote:
GrandPiano wrote:
qwed117 wrote:North of the Himalayas?
[tick]
Central Asia?
One variety is spoken in Central Asia. [tick]
Are there varieties spoken in Northern Asia?
There are speakers in Russia, but I am fairly certain that Russia is not one of the primary countries in which it is spoken.
Is the primary country it's spoken in Uzbekistan?

(and if so, is it Karakalpak?)
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qwed117 wrote:Is the primary country it's spoken in Uzbekistan?
[cross] but it is spoken there as well.
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Is it a Turkic language?
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