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About the strange language i found :

Takma word is Turk

takma : attachment
takma : false
takma : fixation
takma : mounting

atunama word is... Bwaidoga language!?!?!

Means Lightning

http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/austronesian/word.php?v=135

Could be one language or a mix of many? Remember Advkat word (or similar) is Magyar (Or Hungarian)

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:16 pm

BurnsIV · Greenhorn Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 9

Hank just emailed me... I'm putting it over in the Hanks Blog thread http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17109.

P.S. I know I'm knew here, but at what point would a new ARG like this get its own section so we can keep things organized?

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:28 pm

redarmyboro · Boot Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 10

dunno if this is at all relevant but there is a red line coming from washington dc on the google earth image and it would if it had continued gone all the way to bermuda just going over the co-ords

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:53 pm

ancalime

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:06 pm

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InsaneFox · Boot Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 46

Now this is odd, something I just noticed on the website...

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:15 pm

ancalime

Yeah, there's a single j in there too. Then again, there's also "mshn" and "srk" -- the whole language seems to be short on vowels really.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:29 pm

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Wrayer · Greenhorn Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

my overwhelming enthusiasm

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:54 pm

Jarok · Boot Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 16

Language appears to be Austronesian, at least some of it. I googled the word atunama and came up with a definition of sorts which was lightning...not sure how right it was. While looking over the site i found I noticed that the word was listed beside two Austronesian languages. Bwaidoga and Diodio. Another word I googled fell under Bwaidoga as well. Not sure how much of it is of this language since I don't know the verb conjugations but it's a start. Oh, ishka appears to be Austronesion, not sure what for.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:00 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:21 pm

nukedog · Boot Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 28

i'm starting to think this does have something to do with Atlantis. Plato was the first to describe atlantis and the face in the background of the trailhead looks alot like plato.

if hank found kendra at sea, the nickname "Water Baby" would make alot of sense.

one last thing, Atlas was the first king of Atlantis. could that be the king that the curiosity page refers to?

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:13 pm

Dorphalsig · Boot Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 13

http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/index.htm Atlantis-related texts. I'm trying to find some more.

Regretfully I havent been able to find a decent site with atlantean-related languages, most sites are funky religions with strange ideas.
I'm still looking to see what I can find.

Edit: I just found this site: http://members.tripod.com/grahamjmabey/index.htm No dictionary, but a good 'description of the language' (for the description page see here http://members.tripod.com/grahamjmabey/Languages/Languages%20-%20introduction.htm).

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:45 pm

jsquared · Boot Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 52

hello folks..I still haven't had the chance to catch up...it was a long day at work...but I still believe this is a language created for this game...it has similarities to all sorts of real life languages, but I'm betting this is going to be said as some of you have guessed, an Atlantean language....

Atlantis has not even been proven to have existed, and although I believe it DID exist, I highly doubt you are going to find a certified Atlantean language because of that....

What I would suggest is that we try to figure it out as if it is a newly discovered language....how would we go about that?....Yes, you can make comparisons to other languages, but when you do that, you risk mistranslation..

You would have to assume, that if the person creating this language was actually trying to make it seem authentic, then they would model it after the oldest known languages....Most early languages used pictures (like Sumerian - cuneiform, Egyptian - hieroglyphs)...But, later written languages were developed....

Plato, the father of the Atlantis stories, was Greek....on the original web page, we saw the random home row keys in Greek lettering...

So, how do you take a language and work backwards? hmmm...let me ponder a while...

All this is sheer speculation, so any other input would be welcomed....

I fear though, that if we continue to to search for a real life language to match this, or decode it based on our own language, then we will end up with another Voynich Manuscript ......I don't think that is what we want.....

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:38 pm

Dorphalsig · Boot Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 13

The language does not seem to be atlantean

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:13 pm

Jarok · Boot Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 16

atlantean isn't a real language, at least one that we know. There are probably dozens of constructed versions. I don't think that ours can be found on the internet via a search. I think we'll have to translate this the old fashioned way.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:04 pm

cerelkilla62080 · Greenhorn Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 7

site numbers

**Posted:** Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:36 pm