Not any more, at least.

I mean, even the remotest African and Native-American stuff should be on the Web nowadays; but Googling for some of the more distinct of the words in that text, yielded absolutely no results. (Albeit sometimes helpful "did you mean...?" suggestions from Google itself; none of them turned out to be very useful, though.)

It's not any Nordic language, including Icelandic or Old Norse. Nor any Germanic language at all, I think -- that is, even the chances that it be Olde Anglic or Ostrogoth are faint, AFAICS. Nor Finnish, Estonian, Lapp or any of the westernmost Fenno-Ugric ones; personally, I'd guess -- just a hunch, mind you -- that it's not one of the eastern ones like Mari or Komi, either. Nor does it look particularly like any Slavic language I've ever heard of. And I'm fairly sure it's not Lithuanian; compare to that military-fora site the Other Scott linked to, and you'll see that a lot of words in that language -- like virtually all names, AFAIK -- end in -as or -us. Not a single one in this text does, though. It could of course be from Central Asia somewhere, or the interior of New Guinea; or the Amazonas, or India, for that matter... But personally, I don't think so.

No, my guess -- only half based on purely linguistic considerations, I admit -- is this: It's a made-up language, a bit like Tolkien's Elven languages. An additional possibility is, it may be made-up as an attempt to reconstruct the proto-Indo-European ancestor language. (If you want to check this hypothesis, get in touch with Ashton; he's into Sanskrit. Ask him for a sample, and try to compare if Sanskrit and Lithuanian bracket this thingy between them.) As I said, I'm basing this not only -- or even mainly -- on those faintest of echoes of half-known ancient languages that I feel somehow resonate in the text, but more on the rest of the site and its author: She(?) calls herself "Methuselah's Daughter", claims to be 3,500 years old, (that's right there in the domain name!), and if you follow the "About - [link|http://www.3500years.com/archives/000724.php|100 Things]" link, you'll see this persona fleshed out quite consistently.

What would be more logical for this ancient flashback, than to write in the language of her youth? :-)


HTH! (?)

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P. S: I don't know if I'm hallucinating this, BTW, but I think the rhythm of the second and third stanzas is somewhat reminiscent of The Lord's Prayer. (Dunno if this is of any significance whatsoever, but I thought I'd mention it for completeness' sake.)

So, since you can presumably read it, then -- what were the second and third bits all about? Anything about daily bread, forgiveness, and glory forever, Amen?

But, hey, I must admit I never made it through tohse books of all the begats -- but I did get the distinct impression, the ancient Hebroos (or at least, their chroniclers) were more into fathers and sons, with women seen basically as only a necessary tool on the way.

So, are youy sure it actually says what became of old Oldy's _daughter(s?)_? Maybe she wandered off out of the book -- towards the northwest and discovered Europe, or something. [Edit: Add main point, dickhead!] And maybe she left at a very young age, and learnt the (non-Hebrew) language of the tribes around her, I mean.

...would of course fall off his stool gibbering about synchronissicity, if he were here -- I went to see "[link|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359013/trivia|Blade Trinity]"[*] with Matsku yesterday, and the language showed up in several places in the movie! Couldn't believe my frigging eyes and ears, at first.



[*]: See points two and six, counting backwards from the end.