Re: OT: Official language post
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 31, 2003, 16:02 |
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Rachel K. wrote:
> --- Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:
>
> > Try this well-known text
>
> The Lord's Prayer is not a good test for me: I've
> inspected it in a wide variety of languages; I even
> have a sort of collection.
I was afraid of that. Well then, here's another:
>
> >(I replace thorn with T;
> > "q" is /kw/; "gg" is
> > /Ng/; "hv" is a single character in Gothic):
jah usgaggandin imma us skipa suns gamotida imma manna us aurohjom in ahmin
unhrainjamma.
(snip several verses)
unte qaT imma: usgagg, ahma unhrainja, us Tamma mann!
jah frah ina: hva hamo Tein? jah qaT du imma: namo mein laigaion, unte
managai sijum.
(snip a verse)
wasuh Tan jainar hairda sweine haldana at Tamma fairgunja.
--aiwaggeljo Tairh Marku, V: 2, 8-9, 11 (no fair peeking!)