Loglan 95
Loglan 95
0L9 Loglan-95
1L9 Nao viu la Ter, le lengu pa nera, e nu lentaa go kumtu.
1L9|1 {paragraph} Throughout the Earth, the language was one, and
1L9|2 (was) spoken universally.
2L9a I, pa vetci le piplo, nia lepo pei kamla lo lesta, ga lepo pei
2L9b canviu ne leplai je le mela Cinar, landi, ice pei spalii ta.
2L9|1 And, (it) happened-to the people, during the-event-(that) they
2L9|2 came-from the east, the-event-(that) they chance-saw a plain in
2L9|3 the Shinar land, and they resided there.
3L9a I pei nu cikpoa cutse li, Kamla! I ea mu briku madzo, e siskao
3L9b zanduo bei lu. I pei plizo ke lo briku sea lo troku ki lo gredeu
3L9c sea lo trokydjicti.
3L9|1 And they reciprocally said "Come! Let us make bricks, and
3L9|2 thoroughly bake them." And they used both brick for stone and
3L9|3 grease-dirt for stone-join-material.
4L9a I hue pei, Hoi kamla! I ea mu balci ne sitci dii mu, e ne
4L9b ganynurbai jio legai ganpea fa tectco lo skati gui, imoi mu fa
4L9c gramao lemu namci enoi nu kubpetri ba le fasli je la Ter.
4L9|1 And they said, "O come! Let us build a city for us, and a tower
4L9|2 such-that its high-point will stretch-touch the sky,
4L9|3 with-the-motive-that we shall make-great our name, and-not be
4L9|4 scattered (by)-anyone (over) the face of the Earth."
5L9a Inao la Gan, pa damkaa moi lepo vizka le sitci ce ganynurbai ji
5L9b nu balci lo humnytciha.
5L9|1 And {paragraph} God came-down in-order-to see the city and tower
5L9|2 that were built by the human-offspring.
6L9a I hue la Gan, Hoi bleka! I lo humnu na nera, e lentaa le ne
6L9b lengu. I uo hei napa sackao ti, ice no, fa fu litnu hei, ga
6L9c supo durzo raba ji nu danza hei.
6L9|1 And God said, "O look! The humans are-now one, and speak the
6L9|2 one language. And {annoyance} they have begun-to-do this, and
6L9|3 (it) will not be prevented (unto) them, any-instance-of doing
6L9|4 everything wanted-by them.
7L9a Kamla! I ea mu damgoi, ice mu va rodmao lehei lengu inukou no,
7L9b hei fa nu cikpoa siodja lopo lentaa.
7L9|1 Come! Let us go-down, and there break-apart their language,
7L9|2 with-the-consequence-that they will not reciprocally understand
7L9|3 events-of speech."
8L9a Nao, Inumoi la Gan, vavu kubpetri le piplo le fasli je la Ter,
8L9b ice pei stise lepo balci le sitci.
8L9|1 {Paragraph} Therefore God away-from-there scattered the people
8L9|2 (over) the face of the Earth, and they ceased building the city.
9L9a Inurau sei nu namci liu Babel, irau la Gan, va rodmao le lengu
9L9b je lo pira je la Ter, iceci la Gan, vavu kubpetri pei viu le
9L9c fasli je la Ter.
9L9|1 For this reason, it (the city) is called "Babel", because God
9L9|2 there broke-apart the language of all of the Earth, and God from
9L9|3 there scattered them throughout the face of the Earth.
:L9a "Loglan of the 90's", translated by Kirk Sattley after on-line
:L9b discussions with R.A.McIvor, A.Leith, and other Loglanists.
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Congratulations to Jeffery Henning for setting up the Babel text
database. And thanks to John Cowan for posting the Loglan76 version of
the translation. That inspired some of us to produce a translation into
current Loglan, which I submit herewith, in second draft.
I've used the suggested ..a, ..b, ... convention for multi-line verses,
and have used the vertical bar '|' for numbering the comment lines
(because '|' will sort after all lower-case letters in ASCII). The
comments are hyper-literal English back-translations of the Loglan.
[Note: The commas in the written Loglan below represent true phonemic
segments -- namely, pauses. The other puctuation marks (periods and
exclamation marks) are there only to help readers track the
correspondence of the English and Loglan sentences.]
Kirk Sattley
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