It outfoxes Google Translate ... words I've entered have come up as , Filipino, Corsican, Catalan, Irish Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, Japanese and Hindi.  However, buried + a date is clearly seen all the way down the bottom of the obelisk.   Knowing the location would help.  Is it Bretagne ?   Or the Crimea?  or some other Conflict Zone possibly ?  Malta is a possibility as their own language is a mixture but mainly derived from Africa, but where is it?