Gorgeous Video, can anyone identify the language?

[Dorothy J Heydt]

Okay, the Astronomy Picture of the Day post for 12 June 2018 is a
splendid sequence of astronomical bodies/collections of bodies in
size order.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

It starts with Luna and goes on to cover up to possible
multiverses.

Gorgeous stuff.

Now what I want to know is, what language (other than English)
are the captions in? There are a number of loanwords, but what's
the core language?? I can't identify it, and it's very annoying
not to know.

Seems to have -i as a noun ending.

I await enlightenment. Perhaps I should put this on rasf.fandom
too, only I suspect everyone who still reads that group reads
this one too.

[Quadibloc]

I went to the URL you provided, and I was unable to see any captions on the video.

There are cases - Moon (Luna) and Earth (Terra) - where Latin words appear on the
computer-generated labels in front of the bodies, but I'm rather sure that's not
what you are referring to.

I'll try and follow the video to YouTube, and see if I can select an option to see
subtitles, maybe I'll find what you have seen. (The captions may have disappeared
due to a correction at the APOD site.)

John Savard

[Quadibloc]

Post by Quadibloc
I'll try and follow the video to YouTube, and see if I can select an option to see
subtitles, maybe I'll find what you have seen. (The captions may have disappeared
due to a correction at the APOD site.)

On YouTube,

I face an _embarras du richesse_. Apparently captions for this video were
created in a number of different languages, so I can't tell which one you saw.

John Savard

[Quadibloc]

Post by Quadibloc
I face an _embarras du richesse_. Apparently captions for this video were
created in a number of different languages, so I can't tell which one you saw.

Aferdita (Venusi)?

Turned on subitles, got one that wasn't in the list giving acknowledgements in
the description.

Got the first language in alphabetical order.

Albanian.

That is a language which you quite reasonably might not have been able to
recognize.

John Savard

[David Johnston]

Post by Dorothy J Heydt
Okay, the Astronomy Picture of the Day post for 12 June 2018 is a
splendid sequence of astronomical bodies/collections of bodies in
size order.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
It starts with Luna and goes on to cover up to possible
multiverses.
Gorgeous stuff.
Now what I want to know is, what language (other than English)
are the captions in?

You probably have the Albanian captions on. You can change them by clicking on the cog symbol at the bottom.

[Dorothy J Heydt]

Post by David Johnston

Post by Dorothy J Heydt
Okay, the Astronomy Picture of the Day post for 12 June 2018 is a
splendid sequence of astronomical bodies/collections of bodies in
size order.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
It starts with Luna and goes on to cover up to possible
multiverses.
Gorgeous stuff.
Now what I want to know is, what language (other than English)
are the captions in?

You probably have the Albanian captions on. You can change them by
clicking on the cog symbol at the bottom.

Aha. I didn't even notice the cog symbol. Albanian; wow.

Thanks.

[Steve Coltrin]

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Post by Dorothy J Heydt
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Now what I want to know is, what language (other than English)
are the captions in?

Albanian, according to the popup text I get when I turn the captions on.

[Dorothy J Heydt]

Post by Steve Coltrin
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Post by Dorothy J Heydt
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Now what I want to know is, what language (other than English)
are the captions in?

Albanian, according to the popup text I get when I turn the captions on.

And I just googled "Albanian language" and the entry confirmed
what I vaguely remembered from fifty-some years ago: Albanian is
an Indo-European language constituting its own language family.

[mimus99]

Post by Dorothy J Heydt
Okay, the Astronomy Picture of the Day post for 12 June 2018 is a
splendid sequence of astronomical bodies/collections of bodies in
size order.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
It starts with Luna and goes on to cover up to possible
multiverses.
Gorgeous stuff.
Now what I want to know is, what language (other than English)
are the captions in? There are a number of loanwords, but what's
the core language?? I can't identify it, and it's very annoying
not to know.
Seems to have -i as a noun ending.
I await enlightenment. Perhaps I should put this on rasf.fandom
too, only I suspect everyone who still reads that group reads
this one too.

Seems to have multiple-language captioning, listed on the YT details-page.

Check out

Bit of a jump from star-cloud to galaxy there at the end.

[Dorothy J Heydt]

Post by mimus99

Post by Dorothy J Heydt
Okay, the Astronomy Picture of the Day post for 12 June 2018 is a
splendid sequence of astronomical bodies/collections of bodies in
size order.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
It starts with Luna and goes on to cover up to possible
multiverses.
Gorgeous stuff.
Now what I want to know is, what language (other than English)
are the captions in? There are a number of loanwords, but what's
the core language?? I can't identify it, and it's very annoying
not to know.
Seems to have -i as a noun ending.
I await enlightenment. Perhaps I should put this on rasf.fandom
too, only I suspect everyone who still reads that group reads
this one too.

Seems to have multiple-language captioning, listed on the YT details-page.

Yes; the language was identified a while upthread as the first
(in alphabetical order) of many languages available to the makers:
Albanian.

Albanian turns out to be the only language in the Albanian
sub-family of Indo-European languages.

[Quadibloc]

Post by Dorothy J Heydt
Albanian turns out to be the only language in the Albanian
sub-family of Indo-European languages.

Given that the three dialects of Albanian, Skchip, Gheg, and Tosk, aren't mutually
intelligible, Albanian shouldn't feel too lonely.

John Savard