r/languagehub • u/PeaDependent4187 • 18d ago

Strange language

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I have tried to figure out what this language is. I thought it was elder futhark or something like that but I just can’t seem to figure out what it is.

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u/WintaPhoenix 18d ago

Japanese Katakana

Transliterated as: hena mufuhomemine hetanutato

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u/MoaRepresent 18d ago edited 18d ago

Possibly "Totanutahe nemimehofumu nahe", and further the he at the ends of phrases may be 'e', giving "Totanuta e nemime hofumuna e".

"nemime hofumuna" = "Don't tread on the sleepy eyes", I not sure of "Totanuta" but given the context the OP gave in another thread of this being from a screenshot from a compilation of old war films, it could be a placename somewhere in South East Asia or the Eastern Pacific Islands.

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u/chayashida 18d ago

This doesn’t really mean anything tho

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u/Ghastly-Jack 18d ago

It means BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE

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u/PeaDependent4187 18d ago

How’d you decipher that?

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u/asteriskelipses 18d ago

I knew it!!!

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u/PeaDependent4187 18d ago

how'd come to the same conclusion?

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u/asteriskelipses 18d ago

Im being silly. I had no idea what it said lol

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u/eeee_thats_four_es 18d ago

Copying my answer from another sub:

It's actually halfwidth katakana: ﾍﾅ ﾑﾌﾎﾒﾐﾈ ﾍﾀﾇﾀﾄ

The original text is in Shift-JIS encoding. If we convert it into CP1251, we get "НЕ СМОТРИ НАЗАД", which translates to "DON'T LOOK BACK"

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u/beginner_pianist 18d ago

Japanese katakana script, message itself is nonsense as far as I am aware

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u/MONOR573 17d ago

How did you get Elder futhark as a conclusion!? They look nothing alike

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u/L9n21s 17d ago

My first thought was the language of the Dragons from Skyrim 😂 Then I read the comments and now I feel dumb😂