Conlang Card Exchange 2012

I know, I'm a horrible person.

>.>

I'll update this at some point... someday.
  D;

Uxmici kaevo

I enjoy this chant, so I translated it.

The funny thing about chants is that I remember them when I want to sing them for fun, but almost never when I actually need them. ;)  I have panic attacks over ridiculous things, so the few times I remember them they're wonderful tools to get myself back into alignment.  (Something about the rhythm and repetitiveness breaks the panic feedback loop for me.)

They're so useful.

"talēl yahl", the last line, is not really "I am changing".  It's something more like... "I am, changingly"- "My being is change", or even "I am change".  "I am changing" is just "katalēli yahl".  Still, "I am changing" is the easiest English for that spot, so I've left it as the others are ugly.

Order of texts:  Sandic -- Smooth English of Sandic -- Original English
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Uxmici kaevo

kamalēimi béno

kamai hélo

talēl yahl 

Water has birthed (me)

Cleansing powerfully

Acting for healing

I am changing

Born of water

cleansing powerful

healing changing

I am

*image from here.

Ba perad bafac

When I was a child and there was work to be done, a group of us together would sing a song to distract our minds and help the time pass.  This is true even today, though I have no group to sing with.  The old method has been adapted to my ways, and I still sing to myself or hum to myself when I've got something to do.

I was cleaning the house today and simultaneously surfing the web (this is possible, I assure you) when I came across this song on youtube.  It's about six minutes through, and by the time the first playthrough was done, I was singing along in Sandic.  A spontaneous translation!

Anyway, I thought it worth sharing here.  Perhaps one day I will collect all the Sandic songs and make a CD. :)

A note: At first, I was singing "ba reejilian" ("towards the ocean"), but I changed it later to "ba reejil gre" ("until the ocean/to the ocean") because it preserves the original rhyme.  Both work here, I guess.  It's just a matter of personal preference.

Order of texts: Sandic -- Smooth English of Sandic -- Original English

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Ba perad bafac, 

bafac wî bazefa

ba perad bafac

ba réjil gre

lēé ama iab o(lēé)kre

gezo lēé yahl felē

lēé ada iab o(lēé)kre

ba réjil gre

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The river flows,

it flows and grows

the river flows

until the ocean

O mother, carry me

I myself am your child

O father, carry me

until the ocean

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The river is flowing,

flowing and growing

the river is flowing

down to the sea

Mother, carry me

your child I will always be

Father, carry me

down to the sea

* image from here

Féd pa lēeya

I'm not entirely sure where I heard this song yesterday, but it got stuck in my head and I ended up falling back on my flawless method for removing it (or at least rendering its irritating properties ineffective): translation.

"Sleigh ride" by Leroy Anderson and Mitchell Parish is translated below (and is singable, if you dare).  I may record this later; I'm not sure, though, as the only recording device I currently have access to is a camera and it's awkward singing to a little peeping eye.  The audio version might have to wait until I get my new laptop (which should be in a few weeks, hooray).

Perhaps I will translate more carols as the season goes on?

Order of texts: Sandic - Smooth English of Sandic - Original English

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Sandic

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Féd pa lēeya 

ta matenabin lēeya ybra,

kamatenin oahl

otaŵféd ra pa lēeya

iné bataen ba buce

bayum jéjé pal nât

tasnidan aŵ ŵiab ogre

otaŵféd ra pa lēeya

iné bataen ba buce

otaŵféd otaŵféd otaŵféd

iné pa jéjéb otaŵféd

pa úldib jéjéi aŵféd lēeya

otaŵféd otaŵféd otaŵféd

ufe me pa ufe pé

kalēanein lēeya aŵahl

kakantain lēain

gasan aŵ gréin oahl

pa lēeya katéwúin

pal aŵ aŵahl ŵhé

methîan kasein

ba ikuceab otaŵféd

iat kakantain

otaŵféd ra pa lēeya

iné bataen ba buce

then ba ivlú baahl

pal mead ba felokâ grré

sem baahl auzeri faé mohn auzoi

kantabin aŵtekant

otiab aŵmac gre kala ân kant

pal heon karaugin ta makmabin

kalein! red ole!

Lēain aŵahl, erini 

ŵian baneot ahl dék

troukâ aŵ zum úraj

kadamin

wena ma aŵ baahl ân stalob 

makania katema

jégú wenain ta aben

gre kala aŵtelēlét

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Smooth English of Sandic

A trip in the sleigh

I hear the sleigh bells

and they are ringing

let's go in the sled

the weather is nice

outside there is snow falling

our friends are waiting for us

let's go in the sled

the weather is nice

let's go, let's go, let's go,

look, let's go into the snow

we're riding into snowy magic

let's go, let's go, let's go

my hand in yours

we're gliding in the sleigh

singing happily

the sides of our faces* are warm

(we are) happy in the sleigh

we're next to one another like

baby birds in love

let's go along the street

still singing

let's go in the sled

the weather is nice

There is a birthday party

at the place of the farmer "grey"

it is a good end to a good day

we will sing those songs

we like to always sing

at the hearth watching the chestnuts

jump!  they're jumping cooked!

We are happy,

money seems to mean little to us right now

our family is gathered here

eating (together)

the beauty of what we are doing is such that a picture

might be painted by some painter!

these beautiful memories

we will have for eternity.

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Original English

Sleigh Ride

Just hear those sleigh bells jingling 

Ring ting tingling too. 

Come on, it's lovely weather 

For a sleigh ride together with you.

Outside the snow is falling 

And friends are calling 'Yoo-hoo.'

Come on, it's lovely weather 

For a sleigh ride together with you.

Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up, 

Let's go, Let's look at the show, 

We're riding in a wonderland of snow.

Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up, 

It's grand, Just holding your hand, 

We're gliding along with a song 

Of a wintry fairy land.

Our cheeks are nice and rosy 

And comfy cozy are we 

We're snuggled up together 

Like two birds of a feather would be.

Let's take that road before us 

And sing a chorus or two 

Come on, it's lovely weather 

For a sleigh ride together with you.

There's a birthday party 

At the home of Farmer Gray 

It'll be the perfect ending a perfect day 

We'll be singing the songs 

We love to sing without a single stop, 

At the fireplace while we watch 

The chestnuts pop. 

Pop pop pop. 

There's a happy feeling 

Nothing in the world can buy, 

When they pass around the chocolate 

And the pumpkin pie 

It'll nearly be like a picture print 

By Currier and Ives 

These wonderful things are the things 

We remember all through our lives.

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* Sandic has no word for "cheek", so I used here the word "gas", "side of the face".
** Picture from here.

Happy Thanksgiving. :)

I am an impatient kind of person when it comes to learning.  If I am being taught something and I feel that my progress is too slow or that the material is being dumbed down for me, I'll go off on my own and try to find a more efficient way.

I'm impatient to the point that it is very difficult for me to accept instruction from others.  I tend to teach myself things that I want to know, not only because of the personal satisfaction I get out of guiding my own learning, but also because I am uneasy about being thought ignorant due to a lack of knowledge. :)

it's silly, of course, but this is the way I am.

After an incident this week in which someone was trying to show me something and I wanted to barrel ahead, I sat down with a calligraphy pen and scrawled this down.

Order of texts: Sandic - Gloss of Sandic - Smooth English of Sandic

Otefialēr ân san otoma fian

gezotob oteneot temra felē

skra man san op fian

lēé ta katiadin, otegre felē.

sugg-I-allow that knowledge should-they-do to.me

child-like-acc sugg-I-not fear-really I

because doings knowledge theirs to.me

O.you.pl the actv-help-adj-pl, sugg-I-wait I.

May I be accepting of instruction

and not be afraid of others thinking me less

because of the teaching that I recieve

O helpers, may I be accepting/patient.

I'm horrible.

Uploaded this to Reddit, completely forgot to post it here. >.>

This is Baljek, folks.

It liiiiiiiiiiiives (in a limited form and is only good so far for a handful of predetermined things)!

The script on the left is not mine.  It's one I found on omniglot.  That was part of the challenge I was doing- we had to pick and use another person's script.

The one to the right, though, is Baljek's own script.

Jia pérao baljekat!

:)  A little while ago I found a challenge on /r/conlang in which a person is supposed to develop a conlang to a "workable" point.  the goal is to have the conlang sufficiently developed by November 10th to translate the first paragraph of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

I decided that I'd put on my "challenge accepted" face and give it a shot!  My monster of choice is Baljek, Sandic's up-until-recently hardly-known cousin-language.

The Wytn equivalent of English's hybridness, Baljek has a Weyr substrate and a large number of Badis-language borrowings in the vocabulary.  The result of the crossbreeding of old Weyr and old Badis is Baljek, which sounds and looks quite a bit different than its southern cousin.

I present below the first six or seven McGuffey Reader exercises, which I've been using to help me flesh out the language's grammar.

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Lesson I.

Lé kola
Lé kola te daen.
Lé kola so daen.
Lé kola daen.

Lesson II.
Lé meka.  Lé samer.
Lé meka daél to samer?
Lé meka daél to samer.
Lé meka te daél to samer.
Lé meka so daél to samer.

Lesson III.
Lé hîsa daél to ufei éka?
Lé gal alét hîsat.
Da daél pa ufei éka.

Lesson IV.
Lé tali ran daél to "box".
Lé nibo te daen dé "box".
Lé tal damal en?

Lesson V.
Jia pérao!  Raba jia pérao.  Anat jia pérao.
Jia pérao!  Egat alét rab.
Ana émal uj rabat?

VI.
Ana émal uj rabat.
Jia peerao! Egat é élét.
Ana émal res lî rabat.
Jia péén fiat l'iares rabat.


VIII.
Ned so aél l'atan ian lé tal.


-- On a side note, who thought it was a good idea to skip from "Can Ana catch Rab?" to "Ned has fed the chicken?"  What??  Simple verbs to complex past tenses??  Brain-breaker, that one!  I had only just puzzled out how I wanted to handle "let me ____" :p

Anyway, I can now use complex future and past tenses in Baljek!  Hopefully the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will get done this weekend before the deadline. :)