Re: OT: Official language post

[radZ@r/: mIlz rot]

> 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.
 My father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name...  (Note: my only
Germanic language
experiance is German and English).  I'm write, am I not?  What clued me in,
first, was the Tein, which looked like an accusative pronoun to me, and the
"in himinam" in Heaven.  I'd like to see another example, maybe OE, see if I
can
recognize it.  I wasn't expecting to be able to do that one.

Jake