User:ABAlphaBeta/Nura Language

Nura (pğanda nura) is a spurious language, fabricated by a person of Moroccan-origin in Spain, seemingly creating a creole of Arabic and Spanish.

History
The first presentation of the purported Nura language was in a Youtube video by a poster under the username Yunik Hamoudan, in which he claims that he is bringing to light a language spoken only by his family from an undisclosed island or village off the coast of Africa, and that this was a surviving fragment of African Latin; further supplying vocabulary. He reveals that he is going against his family who wish to keep the language unknown, a conceit he would later continue to affirm until his disappearance. He refused to provide any sources, and around the same time tried to add a language page to Wikipedia (as a true language, lacking any references however) which was refused. He also created a crossword puzzle revealing even more vocabulary. After contacting the Youtuber I Love Languages to make a further video on Nura in 2020, many sceptics turned to both videos asking for proof, leading him to create a Telegram and join a dedicated server on Discord to discuss the language, where sceptics and people interested in Nura as a real language alike discussed it until he left the server and disappeared, leading to the conclusion it was probably a hoax, later echoed in a Reddit post on r/linguistics.

Orthography
The orthography was invented by Hamoudan, the language being entirely oral before his intervention according to him. It consisted of unusual letters such as ç /tʃ/, ğ /ɣ/ and ģ /ʒ/.

Location
On the Wikipedia page, it was claimed that there were 100 speakers spread over Spain, Aquitaine, Holland and Morocco. Later, this was contradicted by Hamoudan's statements that there were only a handful of speakers from his own family in Spain.

Vocabulary
Most of the vocabulary comes from the sources mentioned above and from personal comments supplied by Hamoudan on social media. It draws inspiration from Latin, Spanish, French, Arabic, Berber, Hebrew, Basque, English and Vandalic. Hamoudan later admitted to having invented certain words the language did not possess, such as wren 'Eurasian wren', an animal non-native to Africa.


 * {| class="wikitable"

! gloss !! Nura
 * sister || ağmanu
 * head || caputa
 * dog || can
 * cat || cata
 * }
 * dog || can
 * cat || cata
 * }
 * }