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What language is this?

Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:22 pm
by Operalala
Can anyone identify the language handwritten in this score?
http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/5 ... Lieder.pdf
Operalala

Re: What language is this?

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:45 am
by Lyle Neff
Might it be Hungarian?

Re: What language is this?

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:34 pm
by Operalala
That's my logic, too (I don't see anything Indo-European, and Finnish seems to have a lot of doubled letters which I also don't see), but I want a positive identification of whatever it is for the file notes.

Re: What language is this?

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:19 pm
by Lyle Neff
Try transcribing the handwritten titles of the songs or a few adjacent sentences of the handwritten text into Google translate (http://translate.google.com/#), set the "from" language as Hungarian, and see if the sense comes somewhat out like the German.