Re: New conlang - Ichwara Prana

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:14:15 +0200, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:

>On Nov 22, 2004, at 12:58 AM, Pascal A. Kramm wrote:
>> I'll give the Babel text below. For the correct pronunciation, please
>> see the pronunciation page:
>> http://www.choton.org/ichwara/pron.html
>> 1 Nun akhilam jagan habta ein bhasha mit gleich giren.
>> 2 Prapathand ost, naraen findata samabhu in Shinar un nidata da.
>> 3 Si wadata zu einandar: "Gam! Makhat ishtaka un pachan es karmanja!"
>>   Si prawechta ishtaka shtat achan un ter shtat lepja.
>> 4 Dan si wadata: "Gam! Wirachat nagari mit udarka bis zu ananta, zu
>>   makhan nama fur wir, sodas wir isan na ardata ubar akhilam achala."
>> 5 Abar HaShem gamta runtar zu awalokan nagari un udarka naraen ista
>>   wirachand.
>> 6 HaShem wadata: "Fals als ein jagat mit ein bhasha si habta awagta
>>   tuan dis, nakimchid si kratun zu tun isia kalpa fur si.
>> 7 Gam! Angat runtar un wikshubhan sis bhasha, sodas si isia na anubhu
>>   einandar.
>> 8 So HaShem ardata si ubar akhilam achala, un si ni-wiracha nagari.
>> 9 Deshalb nagari ista namta Babel, weil da HaShem wikshubhta bhasha
>>   fon akhilam jagan; fon hir HaShem ardata si ubar akhilam achala.
>
>How come you're using the Hebrew euphemism _Hashem_ in your
>German-Sanskrit hybrid conlang?
Well, since the population consists entirely of Hindus and Buddhists, as
you can see on the history page:
  http://www.choton.org/ichwara/history.html
and as such the Bible (and Christian beliefs in general) are totally alien
to them, they just adopted the Jewish bible translation with the names given
in it (Hashem, Jahwe etc.), since that's closer to their own polytheistic
religion. All those names are always regarded as separate entities.
Actually, they'd rather bite off their tongue than speaking of "god", and
the "GD" from the Jewish bible is always reproduced as "Gada" (and only
regarded as one of many entities).

--
Pascal A. Kramm, author of Choton
official Choton homepage:
http://www.choton.org

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