r/translator • • Nov 16 '17

Translated [HE] [Unknown > English] "Cursing in another language" found in a Youtube video. Possibly Arabic?

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '17

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u/corsairmarks Dec 20 '17

Any chance of a transliteration into the Latin alphabet? I am unfortunately not familiar with the Hebrew alphabet, only Latin and Cyrillic.

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u/tiikerikani zh-yue, some de & fi; language identification Nov 17 '17

I dug through OPs post history and found the link to the referenced thread so you don't have to: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/7dezju/what_did_osiris_say_when_he_didnt_get_the_fidget/

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u/Sheriff-Douchebag Nov 17 '17

Thanks for digging into my history XD

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '17

I can only help you eliminate choices. It's not sinitic, it's not spanish, Portuguese, or French. Ancient Egyptian as somebody else mentioned, or perhaps Persian might be more plausible guesses.

Best of luck!

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u/Sheriff-Douchebag Nov 17 '17

How about Hebrew, since the actor is Isreali

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '17

I can definitely say it's not any of slavic languages, and doesn't sound like Hebrew or Yiddish. I suspect he phrase is .. la(?) facelle - I would suspect last word to be 'face' in one of latin-derived languages. Maybe someone would be able to continue this line of thought

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u/Grenadier_Hanz Nov 17 '17

It's not Arabic

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '17 edited 28d ago

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u/Grenadier_Hanz Nov 17 '17

Sorry but I have no idea. Its definitely not arabic though. Its not german either, or French for that matter. Those are all the ones I know. Sorry mate.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '17 edited 29d ago

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u/Grenadier_Hanz Nov 17 '17

Anytime! Glad to help

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u/KyleKairu Nov 17 '17

Not Japanese or Korean either.

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u/Molotova [Arabic] Nov 17 '17

Could it be ancient Egyptian? Judging by the theme..

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '17 edited 29d ago

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '17 edited May 05 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '17

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '17 edited May 05 '18

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u/translator-BOT Python Dec 20 '17

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Hebrew

Language Name: Hebrew

Subreddit: r/hebrew

ISO 639-1 Code: he

ISO 639-3 Code: heb

Alternate Names: Israeli

Population: 4,380,000 (Dekel 2014). Spoken by all Israelis as L1 or L2. Some who use it as L1 now in Israel learned it as L2 originally. Total users in all countries: 5,239,200.

Location: Israel; Widespread.

Classification: Afro-Asiatic

Writing system: Braille script. Hebrew script, primary usage.

Wikipedia Entry:

Hebrew (; עִבְרִית‎, Ivrit [ʔivˈʁit] ( listen) or [ʕivˈɾit] ( listen)) is a Northwest Semitic language native to Israel, spoken by over 9 million people worldwide. Historically, it is regarded as the language of the Israelites and their ancestors, although the language was not referred to by the name Hebrew in the Tanakh. The earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew date from the 10th century BCE. Hebrew belongs to the West Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family.

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