May 25, 2007 10:23
Today I am a legitimate conlanger. I finally translated the first line of the Babel text.
Pranhaliotarolam kendore mona do lambesi meth do lambetirisi meth.
pr-anha-lio-taro-lam kendo-re do lambe-si meth do lambe-tiri-si meth.
HIST-PAST-SOURCE-say-language world-NOM and language-ACC one and language-DIM-ACC one
"The entire world spoke one language and one dialect."
This corresponds to "And the whole earth was of one language and one speech", the first line of the Babel story from the Bible, which is a traditional text for conlangers to translate. I won't be able to do the rest of the story for a while yet, because it contains lots of other complicated stuff. (Particularly motion verbs, for which I am working on a rather complicated system that will not be done for some time.)
But still, this is a major milestone. In an important sense, I am no longer a n00b.
Yay.
[crossposted to ZBB]
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