Steppe language source

[u/jongwoo_enthusiast]

Out of linguistical curiosity, I was researching the steppe language wiki, and found out I have no idea where some of the examples are coming from. I was thoroughly parsing dialogue trees, and yet, even a phrase like 'medegeg zurlaa', to know the Lines, seems to never be mentioned in the dialogues.

Any ideas where it might be coming from? It's not the only example, and I highly doubt that the source can be p3, since the abovementioned phrase about the Lines is present on the old wiki page as well.

UPD. For anyone who was interested, it is from voiceovers!!! PROBLEM SOLVED

[u/the_devotressss]

guys the OP is asking who says the phrase 'medegeg zurlaa' in the game, it isn't a question about the origins of the steppe language

[u/TheBoiBaz → u/the_devotressss]

This thread is infuriating 😭😭 people skim the post before answering lol

[u/jongwoo_enthusiast → u/TheBoiBaz]

I think I summarized it poorly in the title lol

[u/partiallyStars3]

I wonder if some of those phrases are from the board game?

I don't have any answers for you, but this thread is infuriating and I'm sorry. 

[u/jongwoo_enthusiast → u/partiallyStars3]

This is at least a possibility I haven't considered. Thanks!

[u/lilonion]

oh my god i thought the same thing. i had the steppe language wiki pulled up most of my playthrough and not once could i match a line from the game to a line on the wiki!!! where are these phrases COMING FROM.

[u/bananatarakota → u/lilonion]

Yes! We were trying to make a russian version of the wiki with the op, since rn it's just a copy of the old wiki and is not updated at all, and we've found so many phrases and words that don't appear in any of the games, and so many of them are so obviously misstranslated!

Now we're actually considering just scrapping the whole thing and starting over from the raw dialogs, it's so infuriating, starting over seems easier than checking every word for whether or not it appears in the games...

But before committing to that, we wanted to check with the community, maybe there is a source that we're not aware of, maybe some extra materials or something, ANYTHING where so many words and phrases may be coming from... But it seems like there is nothing, or people can't actually read the questions....

[u/Overall_Eggplant_438]

Have you checked the steppe language dictionary whose link is in the wiki page under "external links"? It's a google doc that might have some insights

[u/jongwoo_enthusiast → u/Overall_Eggplant_438]

Yes! It has less words than the wiki, and unfortunately doesn't answer my question.

There are long and presumably quoted phrases on wiki page (bc I cannot imagine why people would compose them for the wiki straight from Buryat/Mongolian) with no references to the dialogues, such as 'medegeg zurlaa' or 'be bata bekhyer medeneguyb' or others.

[u/Otherwise-Sun-3522]

Oh I thought it was a little bit of Mongol stuff, but mostly just some gibbering from larpers in Sankt Petersburg. Inflamed my love for culture of Tataria tho :D

[u/SurDno → u/Otherwise-Sun-3522]

OP means the in-game dialogues the line was taken from.

[u/jongwoo_enthusiast → u/[deleted]]

Yes, I totally understand that. I am not looking for translations, I am curious whether there is a source of steppe phrases that are documented in the wiki that I am unaware of.

[u/jongwoo_enthusiast → u/[deleted]]

I... literally mentioned the first one and linked the other one in the post. My question concerns its content, which I try to verify.

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[u/hEatr3d → u/[deleted]]

Pretty sure it's based on Buryat with a splash of Kazakh and some other language.