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

From:Rodlox <rodlox@...>
Date:Saturday, October 2, 2004, 1:44
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From: Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
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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.