> Siyo!
> Perhaps an alternate to the macron in all media except
> the webpage you post, say a' e' i'..., or maybe a|
> e|... Whatever you think looks best.
> Clint
>
>
> --- Patrick Jarrett <seraph@...> wrote:
> > Well, many of you know me for sporatic posting and
> > mathematical oddities in my language. Today I bring
> > you the Babel Text in Durin, my language. I did not
> > break it down yet, I just wrote up the translation.
> > I plan to break it down later this week to check my
> > translation. As for pronunciation, all consonants
> > carry the normal english sound except j, which is
> > the french j. Vowels with long marks carry the hard
> > sound, every vowel except O has a long and short
> > sound in Durin. O is always long. I apologize if
> > some os are missing their long mark.
> >
> > Without further adieu,
> >
> > Now the whole world had one language and a common
> > speech.
> >
> > -Haa rinlita daranslodul masma nontrosama wa osama
> > tharama.
> >
> >
> >
> > As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar
> > and settled there.
> >
> > -Doakerta losadul ilkmasma, neta heladul ranOma
> > Shinarnaman wa neta ninasodul manoma.
> >
> >
> >
> > They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks
> > and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead
> > of stone, and tar for mortar.
> >
> > -Neta lunadas hurmur tlapomur, "Dlesa, rishta orahis
> > dlapor and paronoladas nema." Neta jaldalodul
> > dlapoma palamnoro, wa kejalma betan lakoma.
> >
> >
> >
> > Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a
> > city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so
> > that we may make a name for ourselves and not be
> > scattered over the face of the whole earth."
> >
> > -Sko neta lunadul, "Dlesa, rishta abdahis sepradma
> > rishnornamor, era kepal dong feladas charma, ka dong
> > rishrowapro yulanma urol rishnormur des ka
> > balrishslodas dreadul dolhama rinlinoro daranoro.
> >
> >
> >
> > But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower
> > that the men were building.
> >
> > -Tla Banata nurdlesadul luanamas sepradma wa kepalta
> > abdadul akesa.
> >
> >
> >
> > The Lord said, "If as one people speaking the same
> > language they have begun to do this, then nothing
> > they plan to do will be impossible for them.
> >
> > -Banata lunadul, "At domasta tralorta nonekan
> > alasnontrosama neta turadun tumas deng, skonaol dong
> > neta feradas tumas hasoep balharoma galama urol
> > nemur.
> >
> >
> >
> > Come, let us go down and confuse their language so
> > they will not understand each other."
> >
> > -Dlesa, rishta nurpohis wa jufu netoroma nontrosama
> > ka neta baldalnpaek hurmama tlapoma.
> >
> >
> >
> > So the Lord scattered them from there over all the
> > earth, and they stopped building the city.
> >
> > -Ka Banata dreadul nema manonameta brinamre
> > daranamre, wa neta hestadul abdakan sepradma.
> >
> >
> >
> > That is why it was called Babel -- because there the
> > Lord confused the language of the whole world. From
> > there the Lord scattered them over the face of the
> > whole earth.
> >
> > -Indaslodas ardama keta daldanodul Babelma - slonam
> > manovod, Banata jufudul nontrosama rinlinoro
> > daranoro. Manonameta Banata dreadul dolhama brinoro
> > daranoro.
> >
> >
>
>
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