Re: Babel text in da Wial suin Basa: 'De ina Babel suin Tuam'

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From: Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 1:30 AM
Subject: Babel text in da Wial suin Basa: 'De ina Babel suin Tuam'


> Hi!
 hi.

> 'Da Wial suin Basa' ('language of the world') in the preliminary name
> of my new conlang (project name S9).  It is quite ad-hoc, so don't hit
> me.
 wasn't going to.

>  And it is very normal for a conlang of mine... :-)
>
> http://www.theiling.de/projects/s9/
>
> It's IE, Germanic, a descendant for modern High German with a lot of
> influence of a whole bunch of other languages, especially
> East-Westfalian Low German, Africaans, Mandarin Chinese and
> Indonesian.  And occasionally several others.
>
> It is yet unclear how da Wial suin Basa has exactly emerged, since
> only one text has yet been recovered.  The scientists are currently
> trying to find more texts and, more importantly, their sources.
> Probably time-machines are involved, since it seems to be a descendant
> of modern High German although modern High German is now!?
 what is the more important question in my mind, is "where were these/this
text found?"  given that many of its sources seem to be from east of the
Great Rift Valley.

 :)


>
> So here's the first text with a word-to-word English translation.
>
> Since articles are very similar to pronouns in da Wial suin Basa, the
> interlinears always give the pronoun.  This is handy since pronouns
> can encode more number and case information in English.
 ahh, okay.

 *reads*

 cool language.