Re: OT: Official language post

Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> 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
I know no "ancient Germanic", but this'd be the Pater Noster.

                                                        Andreas