En Prisipiyo, En Djudezmo (was: Re: Another question about language naming)

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:44:58 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> Steg Belsky wrote:
> >  "en prisipiyo kreo el dyo
> >   alos syelos i ala tyera..."
> >      ~ beginning of a Ladino bible-translation
> So, does Ladino use _a_ for *all* accusatives, then?
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I'm not sure about spoken Ladino (Djudezmo), but from what i've seen of
stilted Bible-translation Ladino, it does.  It may be an influence from
the Hebrew direct-object particle _et_ used in the original of the quote
above:

en prisipiyo (en principio) = b-reishit = in the beginning,
kreo (creó) = bara = created
el dyo (Dios) = eloqim = God
alos syelos (los cielos, el cielo) = et ha-shamayim = the heavens
i ala tyera (y la tierra) = v-et ha-aretz = and the earth

Notice how the Ladino translation follows the Hebrew exactly, with a 1:1
correspondence between particles, except for the _el_ in _el dyo_.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "we are BAJC."