Re: Jesus translation exercise (was: Re: slowness...)

jesse stephen bangs wrote:
>
> > << In Ajuk:
> > "Vel Ajuk upotami Jesusaj, ot erot upoti nomapaj!"  (replace "nomapaj"
> > with "nomipaj" if you are female, or "nomepaj" or "nom'paj" in informal
> > speech.) >>
>
DOH! My translation was wrong. "Vel Ajuk upotami khinot Jesusaj, ot erot
upoti khinot nomapaj!" shoulbe be what it ways. <smacks own head>

> The Yivríndi had never heard of Jesus, either, but since I've done a lot
> of Biblical passages as translation excercises, I already have a name for
> him.  Here's the three related Yivril languages:
The average Ajuk speaker wouln't have heard of Jesus, but some of them
would have, the educated and the rather few Christians amongst them.

--
Robert

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