the Tower of Babel in Kur, with glosses
From: | azathoth500 <azathoth500@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 22:00 |
A couple things before you read this. First, since Kur romanization
uses multiple diacritics, and not everyone here can see unicode, an
accented vowel followed by ~ would have had the ~ under the accent.
And as for the diacritics themselves, a tilde indicates a nasalized
vowel, an acute accent the high tone, and a grave accent the low tone.
1. Tsès gzèziùt zákzèt zágàt kà~ zúkòt kãaòt.
2. Bàzslupd slyz bokislyga zókom, hizod gzèzid Zhinárá pekuk slim, zát
higabud ti.
3. Hizákd slum, "Slàtz, hàzúktz soktu, zát hàzúz hzè~zè slu." Zát
tetsísly úktòt dzúdtes kà~ zútiàt gajuá.
4. Zát hikzád, "Slàtz, hàzsokz zem gebuk kà~ wáesak, hitsès wáit watan
sa, zát hàzkugóky zu, hù~ kuhokzáty gzèziùt zákzèt zu.
5. Zát hizuslàt Hòzwáan, hizuhàt gebuk kà~ wáesak, hikusakd slyzètu zókes.
6. Zát hizuzàk Hòzwáan, "Hàty, tetsísly zókòt gàtòt slim, tsès slum
zákzèt zágàt. Zát tsès záét úktes sle. Zát hàztsès zétu, hàkuzà~àtd
slim, hàzúktd slim.
7. Slàtz, hàzátz, zát hàzèpz kzètak sle dzu, zát hù~ hàzgókd kzètak sle slim.
8. Zát hizuhakzát tiga gugpot gzèziá slu Hòzwáan, zát hibzàtd sokak gebá.
9. Zát jetsès Babelan blathan sa, hàzá hizuzèp kzètak gzèziá kãaá, zát
hizuhakzát gugpot gzèziá kãaá slu Hòzwáan.
1. was land-DAT NOM-language NOM-one and word-NOM.PL same-NOM.PL
2. PERF-migrate-3rd.pl as east-ABL person-NOM.PL, AOR-find-3rd.pl
land-LOC Shinar-GEN.WEAK plain-ACC they, then AOR-settle-3rd.pl there.
3. AOR-say-3rd.pl them-DAT, "Come-1st.pl, FTR-make-1st.pl
brick-ACC.PL, then FTR-burn-1st.pl done them-ACC." Then were
brick-NOM.PL stone-GEN.WEAK and bitumen-NOM mortar-GEN.WEAK.
4. Then AOR-say-3rd.pl, "Come-1st.pl, FTR-build-1st us-DAT city-ACC
and tower-ACC, SUBJ-be-3rd sky-LOC top-NOM its, then
FTR-APL-know-indef us-ACC, not APL-scatter-indef land-LOC whole-LOC
us-ACC.
5. Then AOR-3rd-come ONGUR-NOM, SUBJ-3rd-see city-ACC and tower-ACC,
AOR-APL-build-3rd.pl children-NOM person-GEN.PL
6. Then AOR-3rd-say ONGUR-NOM, "See-indef, are-3rd person-NOM.WEAK.PL
one-NOM.PL they, is them-DAT language-NOM one-NOM. Then is
beginning-NOM doing-GEN.PL their. Then FTR-is all-NOM.PL,
FTR-plan-3rd.pl they, FTR-do-3rd.pl they.
7. Come-1st.pl, FTR-go-1st.pl, then FTR-confuse-1st.pl language-ACC
their these-NOM, then not FTR-know-3rd.pl language-ACC their they.
8. Then 3rd-scatter there-ABL surface-TRM earth-GEN them-ACC
ONGUR-NOM, then AOR-stop-3rd.pl building-ACC city-GEN.
9. Then STAT-is Babel-NOM.WEAK name-NOM its, because AOR-3rd-confuse
language-ACC land-GEN whole-GEN, then AOR-3rd-scatter surface-TRM
land-GEN whole-GEN them-ACC ONGUR-NOM.