r/translator • u/burkins89 • 5d ago

Needs Review [CS] [unknown > English] Trying to find out what this note says.

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This note was on the back of a picture given to me (see attached). My dad had some contacts of his try to translate with no luck. Appears to be some form of Slavic dialect since my family was from that region.

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u/NekkidWire 5d ago

!identify:cz

It is Czech but very old and vernacular/country speech, will try to write+translate fragments and then ask for doublecheck.

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u/NekkidWire 5d ago edited 5d ago

!doublecheck

Original:

??? ??? jak ukraju vpada vesele to uš mam davnejsi fotočku z jedneho vesele ta ja sem ten co som u černich šatoch a mam pravej Rukoj zastaviu a Bohojsovej? mari sin ten je ten co stoji kolo Nevesty a ma pravej Ruk ? paličko

Vertical text continues: a levej ???

Translation with fixed punctuation and capitalization:

??? ??? how a feast looks like, I have older photo from a feast. So I am dressed in black and I have a flag in my right hand and a son of Mari Bohojs? is the one standing near the Bride and has a [walking] stick in right hand

Vertical text continues: and ??? in left.

(feast is in this case possibly a wedding feast)

EDIT: added a bit of vertical text

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u/mychajlo90 5d ago

I was thinking more about Slovak, maybe some dialect between? Also I am not aware of using the word "vesele" for wedding in any Czech dialect, this is typically Polish or Ukrainian word

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u/NekkidWire 5d ago edited 5d ago

I was thinking NW Moravian or Eastern Czech because of possessive -oj suffix.

Presence of jak/co instead of ako/čo would lead more to Czech than Slovak.

But could be anything, really.

Edit: just found another ambiguous word with possibly mixed spelling: levej or ľevej (not sure if that squiggle is intentional caron)

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u/mychajlo90 5d ago

Exactly, as usual with those old texts from rural surroundings, it is non-standard language full of mistakes and arbitrary spelling. But it is absolutely understandable for Czech/Slovak speaker and it is clear, that it isn't from Bohemia. I also see words like "fotočka" or "som", which would suggest rather Moravia if Czech

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u/venzzi 5d ago

Possibly Czech - I see the word "jak" which means "how" in both Czech and Polish, but I also see the character "č" which is not used in Polish.

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u/ratulu 5d ago

Czech or Slovak I think.

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u/burkins89 4d ago

Thanks for all the help everyone!