Hello!
   Thank you all very much for answering my questions.
I've put the answers to good use and have finally finished
my first translation.  It only took me four months... :)
I've discovered how useful translation exercises are.  Not
only did I come up with all sorts of vocabulary, but
discovered my grammar lacked such important things as the
passive voice, and adverbs.  Anyway, I hope Yahoo! doesn't
mangle the accents too badly and happy reading.
---Etak
P.S. For the person who was wondering about my name, I
don't remember who, Etak is actually my name Kate spelt
backwards.  I like to think it makes my name sound unique
and interesting.  There are probably quite a few Kates
floating around in cyberspace but no Etaks that I know of.


-----The Babel Text-----
   Words that are implied rather than actually written in
the Tarnese translation are written in square brackets.  At
the end of each verse I've included the text translated
back into normal English from the Tarnese.

Pábelàzh    Kanzhúwd
[The] Babel Passage [of text]

1.   Enzébàzh andàzh kérdawngàwg ténzedàwgéda telàwg
   [The] land all    language    speech-and   one
túladèrg.
had.

All the land had one language and one speech.

2.   Píl tanàl síbòw tágàrzímùwgow,    pàzenérgàwg
     As  East  from  [they] journeyed, [a] plain
tárnàl Shìnarnàv   shám tázùmow      ná  pázhàl
land   [of] Shinar in   [they] found and there
túlabòrgow.
[they] dwelt.

As they journeyed from the East, they found a plain in the
land of Shinar and they dwelt there.

3.   Télèrg  ná  sàwmégerg    kéndez
     One     and [the] others [of the] people
tágànázher, 'Éwla, tázhèduv kobègoy,       ná  ólor
said,       'Come, bricks   [let us] make, and them
pàrdázoymá kózìboy.'        Óz tázhèduv kázab  kúw
completely [let us] burn.'  So bricks   stones for
túlàder,    ná  tàmengab kòndáwluzh kúw túlàder.
[they] had, and mud      mortar     for [they] had.

One and the others of the people said, 'Come, let us make
bricks and burn them completely.'  So they had bricks for
stones and mud for mortar.

4.   Tágànázher, 'Éwla, síwgulùv, ná  kamígùv
    [They] said, 'Come, [a] city, and [a] tower
idùm  léndemàl olín òyn tazìvíygòwd ázhagèndewd
which heaven   up   to  reaches     ourselves
kúw kovòwgoy,       ná  angélùv  ázhagèndewd kúw
for [let us] build, and [a] name ourselves   for
kobègew,       kiynèwzhey enzébàl    méndil
[let us] make, because    [the] land across
sheyvélègewn.'
[we might be] scattered.'

They said, 'Come, let us build a city, and a tower that
reaches up to heaven for ourselves, and let us make a name
for ourselves because we might be scattered across the
land.'

5.   Ádonìyv síwgulùv kamígùvéda, ílan  kénderg
  [The] Lord city     tower-and,  which [the] people
túlavòwdow,    amvòw távedòrb lámènílew.
were building, down  came     to see.

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the
people were building.

6.   Ádonìyv tágànazhèrg, 'Kolàmén, kéndel télel
  [The] Lord said,        'Behold,  people one
túlagáy,    ná  kérdawngàwg télàwg túladér;
[they] are, and language    one    [they] have;
ná  toynùv tabínàrzher  píloy.  Suwnèl tíga
and this   [they] begin to do.  Now    anything
tiléngabòwv óbor kúw tól tàgawd,  idùm
impossible  them for not will be, which
luwzùygoy               pegòvíla.'
[they] would be able to imagine.'

The Lord said, 'Behold, they are one people and they have
one language; and they begin to do this.  Now nothing will
be impossible for them which they could imagine.

7.   'Éwla, pázhàl amvòw konàrb      ná  kérdawngàwg
     'Come, there  down  [let me] go and language
ózhor     kodùlénzèyd      óz kendèrg télèrg mála
[of] them [let me] confuse so person  one    not
ténzedàwg        sàwmégèz    tól tazúygàwd
[the] speech[of] another     not is able
kòrgíla.'
to understand.'

'Come, let me go down there and confuse their language so
one person cannot understand the speech of another.

8.   Óz Ádonìyv    ólor pázhàl síbòw enzébàl    méndil
     So [the] Lord them there  from  [the] land across
távelégèrg ná  síwgulùv   támer          távòwgow.
scattered  and [the] city [they] stopped building.

So the Lord scattered them from there across the land and
they stopped building the city.

9.   Ulíngàzh Páybelàl sógibàb toynàb kúw túlangélèrg,
  [The] place Babel    reason  this   for was called,
kiynèwzhey Ádonìyv    kérdawngàwg    kéndez
because    [the] Lord [the] language [of the] people
ández pazhàl tádulénzèrg.  Ádonìyv    ólor pazhàl
all   there  confused.     [The] Lord them there
síbòw enzébàl    méndil távelégòrb.
from  [the] land across scattered.

The place was called Babel for this reason, because the
Lord confused the language of the all people there.  The
Lord scattered them from there across the land.


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