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:eng: Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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:con: Yélian

Miyde deʻay bit cet tivelsupar?
[ˈma̯iːdə ˈdeʔɐs bɨ̆‿kət ˈtiːvəlˌsupɐd̟]
why raven COP.3SG.ANIM like writing desk
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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:tan: Swahili:

Kwa nini kunguru ni kama dawati?
INST what raven(9ANIM) COP like writing.desk(5)
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Glossing Abbreviations: COMP = comparative, C = complementiser, ACS / ICS = accessible / inaccessible, GDV = gerundive, SPEC / NSPC = specific / non-specific, AG = agent, E = entity (person, animal, thing)
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:con: Rozwi

rhušunwu Mγadtō ye ayebeu blidveiktō hœ?
dark.blue majesty be<PRS.SG>3SG ADV writing.table.INST INTERR.ADV
How is the Lazuli Majesty (Quiscalus caerulea) like a desk?


A common crow-sized member of the Corby family, which are descendants of the humble grackle.
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Not to be confused with the much rarer Crook (Corone harpactica ) Tirga's large predatory crow
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:chn: Mandarin (attempt)

乌鸦为什么像写字台?
Wūyā wèishénme xiàng xiězìtái?
[u˥ja˥ weɪ̯˥˩ʂə˧˥mə ɕɪ̯aŋ˥˩ ɕɪ̯ɛ˨˩t͡sɹ̩˥˩tʰaɪ̯˧˥]
raven why be_like writing_desk
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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:con: Caelian

Halypyec ma divmabyam zapgovtyoren byäis?
[haʎˈpʲɛç ma difmaˈbʲam zapgɔftʲɔˈrɛn bʲæɪ̯ʃ]
raven.NOM INDEF.FEM.NOM reason.LOC writing_desk.EQU COP.3SG>3SG
Why is a raven like a writing desk?

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halypyec [haʎˈpʲɛç] - raven
New root

zapgovtyen [zapgɔfˈtʲɛn] - writing desk
Etymology: zapjes "table" + govtyen "to write"

divmabyam [difmaˈbʲam] - why
Etymology: locative case of divmem "reason"; new colloquial synonym to the more high-level lizwye.
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:con: griuskant (without script here)

zhilb ijvazhia kaut az vy ?
/'ʒilb 'idʒvaʒia 'kaut az 'vY/
crow advance-attribution-A-V table is which
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in Whenuaakereo:
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(black bird perhaps seen as writing table)
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Image Atili: Wohobayeÿduna muzu bibidra wotayaÿke?
/ˌwo.χoˌba.jeɹˈdu.nʌ ˈmu.ʒu biˈbid.ʁʌ ˌwo.tʌ↘︎ˈjaːɹꜛ.kɛ/

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w-o-hobay-eÿdu-na             mu-zu        bi~bidra  w-o-tay-aÿke?
PL-3INAN;IPFV-bird-be_black-N reason-thing PL~desk   PL-3INAN;IPFV-C-be_similar
"How are ravens similar to desks?"
lit. "The birdblackers how the desks are similar?"
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Epos: Tshem ekòk ya òyapak?
[tʃem ˈekɔk ja ˈɔjapak]
INT INDEF.M-raven be_like INDEF.N-writing_desk
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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:eur: European Romance
Car es uns còrbs com un escriptori?
[ˈkaɾ.es.ysˈkɔrs.kum.yn.es.kriˈtu.ri]
why COP.3SG.PRS INDF.M-NOM raven-NOM like INDF.M desk
Why is a raven like a writing desk?

European Romance is a standardized Old Occitan, used as an auxlang in a 22nd century European Union from a speculative fiction project I'm working on. With the decline of the US and UK as global powers, English begins to be seen as an anachronism in the EU, to be replaced with a more relevant lingua franca. Old Occitan, fairly archaic, well-nigh politically neutral, and strongly literary, as well as occupying a central point in the Romance dialect continuum, ended up the top candidate after much debate. The phonological transcription above demonstrates the koiné-ized phonology used as a standard by the 2160s.

:chn: :twn: Classical Chinese
烏,何如書桌?
Uo¹, ghe¹ nyuo³ᵇ syuo³ᵇ trok²?
/ʔo ‖ ɣæ ⁿdʑy ɕy ʈaʴk/
corvid ‖ how resemble writing table
Why is a raven like a writing desk?

The "romanization" above is an abstract representation devised by David Prager Branner of the Qièyùn rime table system. The phonemic transcription is based on W. South Coblin's reconstruction of mid-Táng era Cháng'ānese (as described in his Compendium of Phonetics in Northwest Chinese).

edit: minor phrasing issues, a letter
天含青海道。城頭月千里。
/tʰiæn ɣɑm tsʰieŋ.hɑ́i dʱɑ́u ‖ ʑʱeŋ dʱəu ᵑgyæɾ tsʰiæn lí/
The sky swallows the road to Kokonor. On the Great Wall, a thousand miles of moonlight.
—/lí ɣɑ̀/ (李賀), tr. A. C. Graham
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:con: Rireinutire

kurokoye ku visorahe yoñi yakayo:
/ˈkuɹoˌkoje ku ˈvisoˌɹɑhe ˈjoŋi ˈjɑkɑjo/
kurokoye ku visorahe yoñi yakayo ||
raven.NOM like write-desk.NOM why.Q be-PRS-Q ||

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

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