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Hyvää yötä rapu.

*faints*

Okay, I'm dizzy now. I tried putting that through Google translate.
Result: Good night crab
I tried to find out which word meant crab.
According to google translate "Hyvää yötä" means good night. If I add "rapu" it's good night crab. But if I only have rapu there, it means search.
Makes. No. Sense.

Now you can practice your Norwegian too

Who's that tiny character on the raft, him who looks like a juvenile delinquent? -- Skilpadde, Google translate works fine for me. Are you sure you had the source language tagged as Finnish?

Oh lol, that's it! I just used the recognize language feature. When I removed "Hyvää yötä", and "rapu" was left alone, the recognize language changed to Maori. I didn't notice. Sorry! Well, I'm glad that was cleared up. Thanks, Krabo! It worked perfectly now.

My pleasure. - Now we know how to say "search" in Maori.

That we do!

That I certainly do.

But seriously, nawww ... It's nice to see Māori on Google Translate, even if it does come up with some messed up sentences sometimes. Still waiting on an audio function for Māori, though. It shouldn't be that hard: it's not a difficult language to pronounce, once you understand the sounds.

Murihiku, isn't there a Polynesian language which consists of vowels only?

I've never heard of any such language, much less a Polynesian one. Couldn't find anything on Google, either.

Neither could I, but I have seen somewhere a short mention of such a language (not necessarily Polynesian).

Hey, Murihiku, I went to Google translate to check what the Maori word for turtle is. It said 'honu'. I thought honu was Hawaiian?

^ Figures.

But yeah, turtle is "honu" in Māori. There are a lot of words that are the same (or very similar) in many different Polynesian languages. I'm not surprised in the least that a marine animal would have the same name in Hawaiian.

And if you're wondering, "I have a turtle" in Māori is "He honu tāku" (literally "a turtle is mine").

Let me know if you find out what it is. That'd be so interesting!