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translations:babel_tower [2021/08/29 15:14] – [Translation in Nûrlâm] morgoth | translations:babel_tower [2023/09/07 19:38] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1 | ||
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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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To add [[: | To add [[: | ||
- | * Explicit [[: | + | |
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* The [[: | * The [[: | ||
- | * Verb–Subject–Object (VSO) word order | + | * Verb--Subject--Object (VSO) word order (except state: "to be" + adjective/ |
- | * all modifiers are placed **after** the words they describe, including prepositions becoming postpositions | + | |
* 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 the biblical pluralization of the name Elohim | ||
Resulting translation: | Resulting translation: | ||
- | ^ Line ^ Nûrlâm ^ Gloss and comments ^ | + | ^ Lug Bâbilob |
- | | 1 | | Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. | | + | ^ Line ^ Nûrlâm ^ Gloss, back translation |
- | | 2 | | | | + | | 1 | Zil brusuzâ uzgûk ash lâmish agh ash gashnurmish |
- | | 3 | | | | + | | ::: | ::: | Now all the lands had one language and one speech. | |
- | | 4 | | | | + | | 2 | Agh ghugshuzâ kusn mûlurmtabish ghânshah zamash tagimbuz ash uzgokish uzgumor Shinârob agh tafulguz zîgin |
- | | 5 | | | | + | | ::: | ::: | And it happened during their journey from East that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they dwelled there. |
- | | 6 | | | | + | | 3 | Zîgil tagashnuz ash iskûr, " |
- | | 7 | | | | + | | ::: | ::: | Then they said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them carefully." |
- | | 8 | | | | + | | 4 | Agh tagashnuz, " |
- | | 9 | | | | + | | ::: | ::: | 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 dhutuzâ Yahuah honat goish agh lugumish amash tumbuzû nond tarkob.((" | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | But Jehovah descended to see city and the tower which sons of men had built. | ||
+ | | 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." | ||
+ | | 7 | Skât, gâkh dhutat agh zîgin girzat lâmtabish, zârz tanarpâshub zâbrut gashnurmish ashob iskob" | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 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 planarz zîginah thakumti uzgumobûk, agh tapuzguz tumbut goish | So scatter-PST-3SG-them Jehovah broad-ADV there-ELA face-DEF=over land-DEF-GEN=all, | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 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, taitaga Yahuahirzi amash girzuzâ lâmumish uzgumobûk zîgin; agh bûsnuzâtul planarz thakumti uzgumobûk zîginah | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 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. | ||
+ | This translation is not the only one correct, as there may be variations |