The previous part, which itself links to parts 1-6, has some discussions and glosses of other anime that might help you. The plot descriptions in these quizzes are based on those from Anilist, so you can use that site for reference. You can also use things like title structure, character names, and occasional numerals to help you figure things out, or you can ask me for hints like the meanings of individual words, and I may or may not provide. I’ll also be providing a few hints off the bat.
It’s maybe a little weird to provide a CW for text in a language no-one else speaks, but I figured it was better to overapply CW’s than underapply them.
When you make a guess, please spoiler your answer. If you’re right, I will reply with the Evangelion congratulations emoji and provide glosses. And remember that just because someone else solved a title first doesn’t mean you can’t have a go for yourself.
Also, I can’t guarantee that every translation here is perfect, because despite inventing this language, it is still not my first language.
Edit: Meltyheartlove pulled a hat trick today, being the first to solve all three titles. But since all the answers are spoilered, you can still make your own guesses!
Some hints not specific to any title
Deciphering character names
The lengths of names may be of use but don’t expect them to perfectly match their lengths in Hepburn/English. Likewise initials might not always match the Hepburn.
Names are inflected with a masculine suffix -a and a feminine suffix -e, but to prevent hiatus these go through the following sound changes:
① a(ː).V → Vː — as in *Sakura-e → Sakuré
② O(ː).V → ø(ː) — as in *Tomoyo-e → Tomoyǒ, or *Kló-a → Klő
③ E(ː).V → jV(ː) — as in *Miyuki-a → Miyukya
The sound change for front vowels may trigger further sound changes:
Tj → TT — but note that alveolar geminates are realized as palatals.
ji(ː) → iː
In that order.
Also note that proper nouns occasionally do not refer to characters, in which case the gender that the name is inflected as may not be of much use to you.
Other revelations about the grammar and word derivation
It has by this point been cracked or revealed that…
- -t́ forms verbs, -ćk forms active participles, and -j́esk forms passive participles.
- -v is a suffix used to form the construct state. This means that the following word modifies or possesses the previous.
1: sinćtiv rómski l***e[1]
Buhi : tárej́eski.
Fe : yáxav laneyv 2: yalana sijbe eye ňa deňa so eyni, dej́este, u skǒyv hiḱaj́eskey; u yalanav “yaMiseýa” me rananey ňa deňa so žuňi, sńey, skǒyv rananskey, u dej́estevde. Kav 1-ska xi sokruňeyne bviret́ede he, L***e so žariv 14 šekot́ede 01-bra to yesokruňeynev bviśke: “Yeyket́ev ane yebonevye. Yezini lá, tavfa.” čay.
L***e sindet́i, šo yalaneyv 2 : tárej́eskeyde lo dum šetruňet́e. Yebze koto yalanav pska u yalanav yaMiseýa, zbat́i zút́e kay?
Hint: genre + decade
Genre: sci-fi
First episode aired in the: 1990s
2: ANDOGE[2]
Eyni iḿet́e R**ǒv Ogeska so “yÁrlaydayǒ”, na fe, šo ša : yazoĺǒv virckade u raňgiśkade, šo zdet́a yaXaymisa. YeLan̋ane fut́e u bviret́e R**ǒ čay sule xaysǒnt́ot́e yaLana, na fe, šo yasuleyv R**ǒ bzeskey kruňet́a na kayta Andoge — yǒgebonev lobuhe. Yekruňevfe zbat́e yeYd́ev Xaye Arlaí, deňe so štrey, šo ĺent́ey sindet́a Andoge, u yǒgevše u giriḿevše ridabǒ, so šo ńahkade yÁrlaydayǒv dara — yašráv vurade yaLana.
Sint́ yaštoḱavfa: yárlaya M. D. L**ya. So žariv 17, ša nay arlaydumska: nay dum kőde, nay ran kaney, u nay zureyna, šo yoyet́ey ňaney. Šo ňa, L**ya nay kum o dum yérlaí to yezuruňe: yepse ňa, L**yav súśinska šahkade arlaya na yaĺeneyvša na órev numećke, deňe so eyniv dari u nanski, u možev yesindev Andoge. Yakoḱeyv yaxisńav L**ya to draste ňa šasokot́ey so yayavša: ńezdet́i koto yaXaymisa, kot́i óriv graymej́eski, raňkaysulet́i morǒyv jeśki, u dot́i nǒniv vircki — buhe va ńekot́e Andoge.
Hint: genre + decade
Genre: adventure
First episode aired in the: 1990s
3: OGEDOGIYA![3]
Fe : yéxev ariḱev wataśke so Ó. Ś****ǒ iḿej́eske. Uše žariv 15 u kožev punkyercke, u xi byaḱot́e Wataśiya he, šéyt́e yǒynjuynevše na Britaniya. No kav anskagunska he, raykbra kot́a še. “To A***e” čay — á, yadrav yǒyna, šo ukeynt́a yǒynjuynev Ś****ǒ! U yabra xit́a, “yekot́i Wataśiya” čay! Wáy!
Yespinziniv xampev ariḱiv u wataśki u britanski ňa yáhasuliyavfa sinódmožet́ey e — u Ś****ǒ, u A***e, u guni.
Hint: genre + decade
Genre: slice-of-life
First episode aired in the: 2010s
3: OGEDOGIYA!
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Kiniro Mosaic?
Gloss + original text
OGEDOGIYA!
Fe : yéxev ariḱev wataśke so Ómiya-Śinobǒ iḿej́eske. Uše žariv 15 u kožev punkyercke, u xi byaḱot́e Wataśiya he, šéyt́e yǒynjuynevše na Britaniya. No kav anskagunska he, raykbra kot́a še. "To Alise" čay — á, yadrav yǒyna, šo ukeynt́a yǒynjuynev Śinobǒ! U yabra xit́a, "yekot́i Wataśiya" čay! Wáy!
Yespinziniv xampev ariḱiv u wataśki u britanski ňa yáhasuliyavfa sinódmožet́ey e — u Śinobǒ, u Alise, u guni.
KINMOZA!
The story begins with Oomiya Shinobu, a 15-year-old, seemingly pure Japanese girl who actually did a homestay in Great Britain. Even after coming back to Japan, she still misses her time overseas. One day, an airmail letter arrives from Alice, the girl in Shinobu’s host family in Great Britain. The letter reads: Shinobu, I’m coming to Japan! The Japanese/British girls’ mixed comedy follows the lives of Shinobu, Alice, and other girls from both Japan and Great Britain.
I didn’t think I would get all three but I got lucky today
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I noticed Britaniya and “15" so I assumed it would be a highschool anime and I wasn’t sure if it really meant Britain but I just went with it and I haven’t heard of a highschool anime set in Britain but the Britanski bit made me think some of the characters would be British too so Kiniro Mosaic came to mind and the names almost matched for Kiniro Mosaic. I had watched it around the time it aired so I have almost no recollection apart from the character being British and recalled the name of the anime as Kirino Mosaic instead of Kiniro(reference to blonde hair I suppose) Mosaic and thought the main characters name was Kirino and almost passed it off as unrelated.
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I figured that having the character’s age as well as a few words that really looked like they’d mean Britain/British would be a good hint. I also thought that maybe people would be able to figure out that Wataśiya was the name I’d given Japan, although this was less certain. I came up with that name because all the more obvious names for Japan, like variants of Nihon, Yamato etc, either didn’t sound right or were grammatically problematic — but I remembered things like how the Maori name for France is Wīwī, and I figured that it was then easy enough to corrupt watashi wa into Wataśiya.
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I did notice the aśiya portion in Wataśiya and thought it might be east Asia by assuming wata meant East. I wasn’t sure it was really the case though. I also had a silly thought where I saw it as 渡足亜 [wata-ashi-a] instead. Somehow, I missed the obvious wataśki which I could have compared to britanski and then I could have confirmed Wataśiya as a country. I thought možet́ey in sinódmožet́ey sounded like может быть in Russian and wondered if guni meant kumi in Japanese.
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The možet́ in sinódmožet́ey is indeed related, out of universe, to может. More specifically, može means “a possibility” and was modeled on может and related words in other Slavic languages — and then možet́ is a verb derivation using the suffix -t́, which was itself modeled on the -ть found at the end of most Russian infinitives. So možet́ literally means in short “to make possible”, “to create a possibility”, or in other words, “to let, allow” — and this word možet́ then productively replaces the -t́ at the ends of other verbs to form new words meaning “to let [direct object]…”
For instance:
Sinót́ey (= sin + ód + -t́) = is seeing and hearing (masculine subject)
Sinódmožet́ey (= sin + ód + mož(e) + -t́) = is letting [direct object] see and hear (masculine subject)
…I still haven’t figured out how exactly this will work for passive/reflexive verbs or for the very small number of verbs that don’t end in -t́, but eh, I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it. For now it’s easy enough to just rephrase in those situations.
In any case, I normally don’t allow words in my conlang to have obvious connections to words in real-world languages. Most of the time when I do break this rule, I’ll first check if there are at least three distantly or un-related languages with similar-sounding but unrelated words with similar meanings, so that way some people might think “is može related to может?” and others might think “is može related to måskje?” and others still might think “is može related to もし?”
That is quite clever. It adds in a lot more depth while making it more accessible at the same time.
Wataśiya
Since Britain was so likely for “Britaniya”, another real country seemed probable and, given the origin, that strongly suggested Japan. But I also thought that, given your demonstrated Japanese knowledge, you might have worked from “和”, as in “和製語”, etc.
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I sort of did: One of my ideas before landing on Wataśiya was just Wata, i.e. 倭/和 + ta, as a partial calque of 倭国. But I wasn’t satisfied with this name, either, and when I read that 倭/和 likely (according to some etymologists) came from Old Japanese 我 wa, that was what got me thinking about naming the country after a more modern word for “me”. Given how Wata was already pretty close to 私 watashi (whose wa is incidentally commonly believed to also be related to 我), and given other cases of countries or lects or tribes in natlangs being named after their words for “yes” or “no” or “what” or “me” etc, that basically settled it. Wataśiya. When I was coming up with the names of the other countries yeeeears ago, too, I considered but ultimately decided against naming them after their words for “me” as well. So that was another reason why I figured I might as well do it for at least one country here.
In the original set of country names that I came up with all those years ago, Japan was called yaPečéýa — but when making this quiz I just didn’t like the sound of that name, so I decided to throw it out and make a brand new one. YaPečéýa was like one of three country names formed using only native roots, the others being the Netherlands and Iraq. I also gave the UK, Seppoland, and Ethiopia names formed only from native roots, alongside less opaque loan names, such as Britaniya as used in this quiz.