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translations:babel_tower [2021/09/01 13:44] – morgoth | translations:babel_tower [2022/11/28 19:27] – [Translation in Nûrlâm] morgoth | ||
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====== Babel' | ====== Babel' | ||
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The text is cited from "New King James" Bible version (1982): | The text is cited from "New King James" Bible version (1982): | ||
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* Explicit [[: | * Explicit [[: | ||
* The [[: | * The [[: | ||
- | * Verb–Subject–Object (VSO) word order (except state: "to be" + adjective/ | + | * Verb--Subject--Object (VSO) word order (except state: "to be" + adjective/ |
* singular form of pronouns is used for plural pronouns too | * singular form of pronouns is used for plural pronouns too | ||
- | * lack of plural form in Nûrlâm will suit well biblical pluralization of the name Elohim | + | * lack of plural form in Nûrlâm will suit well the biblical pluralization of the name Elohim |
Resulting translation: | Resulting translation: | ||
+ | ^ Lug Bâbilob | ||
^ Line ^ Nûrlâm ^ Gloss, back translation and comments ^ | ^ Line ^ Nûrlâm ^ Gloss, back translation and comments ^ | ||
- | ^ Lug Bâbilob | ||
| 1 | Zil brusuzâ uzgûk ash lâmish agh ash gashnurmish | Now have-PST-3SG land=all one language-ACC and one speak-NZ.ABSTR-ACC | | | 1 | Zil brusuzâ uzgûk ash lâmish agh ash gashnurmish | Now have-PST-3SG land=all one language-ACC and one speak-NZ.ABSTR-ACC | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | Now all the lands had one language and one speech. | | ||
| 2 | Agh ghugshuzâ kusn mûlurmtabish ghânshah zamash tagimbuz ash uzgokish uzgumor Shinârob agh tafulguz zîgin | And happen-PST-3SG.SBJ during road-ABSTR=3.GEN-ACC East=ELA that 3=find-PST one flatland-ACC land-DEF=INE Shinar-GEN and 3=dwell-PST that.place | | | 2 | Agh ghugshuzâ kusn mûlurmtabish ghânshah zamash tagimbuz ash uzgokish uzgumor Shinârob agh tafulguz zîgin | And happen-PST-3SG.SBJ during road-ABSTR=3.GEN-ACC East=ELA that 3=find-PST one flatland-ACC land-DEF=INE Shinar-GEN and 3=dwell-PST that.place | | ||
- | | ::: | ::: | And it happened during their journey from East that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they dwelled there | | + | | ::: | ::: | And it happened during their journey from East that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they dwelled there. | |
- | | 3 | Zîgil tagashnuz ash iskûr, " | + | | 3 | Zîgil tagashnuz ash iskûr, " |
| ::: | ::: | Then they said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them carefully." | | ::: | ::: | Then they said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them carefully." | ||
- | | 4 | Agh tagashnuz, " | + | | 4 | Agh tagashnuz, " |
| ::: | ::: | And they said, "Come, let us build (by) ourselves a city, and a tower whose roof is in the sky; let's make a name for ourselves, for us to be not scattered abroad over the face of the all the lands." | | ::: | ::: | And they said, "Come, let us build (by) ourselves a city, and a tower whose roof is in the sky; let's make a name for ourselves, for us to be not scattered abroad over the face of the all the lands." | ||
- | | 5 | Ap poshuzâ | + | | 5 | Ap dhutuzâ |
| ::: | ::: | But Jehovah descended to see city and the tower which sons of men had built. | | | ::: | ::: | But Jehovah descended to see city and the tower which sons of men had built. | | ||
| 6 | Agh gashnuzâ Yahuah, " | | 6 | Agh gashnuzâ Yahuah, " | ||
- | | ::: | ::: | And Jehovah said, "Truly humans are one and they all have one language, and this is what they began to do; hence(forth) nothing will be possible (for them) of what they are going to do" | | + | | ::: | ::: | And Jehovah said, "Truly humans are one and they all have one language, and this is what they began to do; hence(forth) nothing will be possible (for them) of what they are going to do." | |
- | | 7 | Skât, gâkh poshut | + | | 7 | Skât, gâkh dhutat |
| ::: | ::: | Come, let's descend and there confuse their language, so that they will not be able to understand speech of one another' | | ::: | ::: | Come, let's descend and there confuse their language, so that they will not be able to understand speech of one another' | ||
- | | 8 | Zârz bûsnuzâtul Yahuah | + | | 8 | Zârz bûsnuzâtul Yahuah |
| ::: | ::: | So Jehovah scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the lands, and they stopped to build city. | | | ::: | ::: | So Jehovah scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the lands, and they stopped to build city. | | ||
- | | 9 | Zîgilah kulâ Bâbil îztabish, | + | | 9 | Zîgilah kulâ Bâbil îztabish, |
| ::: | ::: | Thenceforth Babel is it's name,((any other translation would be much longer and/or require to put Babel into some grammatical case, which I wanted to avoid, as this name occurs only once in the text)) because of Jehovah, who messed the language of all the lands; and scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth from there. | | | ::: | ::: | Thenceforth Babel is it's name,((any other translation would be much longer and/or require to put Babel into some grammatical case, which I wanted to avoid, as this name occurs only once in the text)) because of Jehovah, who messed the language of all the lands; and scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth from there. | | ||
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This translation is not the only one correct, as there may be variations | This translation is not the only one correct, as there may be variations |