Re: OT: Official language post
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 31, 2003, 4:25 |
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Rachel Klippenstein wrote:
> Yes, I highly suspect I'd do better with Gothic than
> Corsican, though of course I can't be certain since
> I've never compared. Old English would help a lot,
> being another ancient Germanic language.
> >
Try this well-known text (I replace thorn with T; "q" is /kw/; "gg" is
/Ng/):
swa nu bidjaiT jus: atta unsar Tu in himinam, weihnai namo Tein. qimai
Tiudinassus Teins. wairTai wilja Teins, swe in himina jah ana airTai. hlaif
unsarana Tana sinteinan gif uns himma daga. jah aflet uns Tatei skulans
sijaima, swaswe jah weis afletam Taim skulam unsaraim. jah ni briggais uns
in fraistubnjai, ak lausei uns ai Tamma ubilin; unte Teina is Tiudangardi
jah mahts jah wulTus in aiwins.
--aiwaggeljo Tairh maTTaiu, 6:9-13
> --- Adam Walker <carrajena@...> wrote: >
> > Well, I chose Gothic precisely because it is another
> > branch since she has studied West and North Germanic
> > langs. And I chose Corsican because it's obsucre
> > and has some interesting spelling conventions.
> >
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