| Site | Lûá  |
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| Translation Image | (Click to pop-up hosted image) |
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| Language | Lûá |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Translator | Fen Yik |
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| Introduction | Lûá is a fictional language with 12 segmental phonemes and six phonemic tones. Each word belongs to an element (air, water, earth, or spirit), which is reflected in the initial consonant (or lack thereof). Place names were translated based on R. D. Hitchcock's interpretations. |
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| Verse 1 | Maà naé-môá lûú möá, ôò lûá aò, ôò fhuà-hâú aò. |
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| Verse 2 | Âù raì rhüó rhôó rhüú-îá-rïé, uà lâè nëá maà nïá Naé-fhâò-raì-ëì, uà raú-mäí maà naé-nôó. |
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| Verse 3 | Raì löá "Ïà-êà-uà hâà raú näò-raú, ïá uà" rhêé rài. Haò fhaà uà-uà laè näò, uà fhaà näò-raú, uà-uà laè luà-roó-nöò, uà fhaà mëì-luà-müò. |
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| Verse 4 | Raì löá "Ïà-êà-uà hâà raú maù-mäí lií mäí-nûó luù rhôá rhêé ôá. Ïà-êà-uà hâà raú hêì lûú îà, hüá fhaà ïà-êà-uà äù räà rhôú-rhôú rhêé naé-môá lûú möá." |
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| Verse 5 | Ëá-raú uà rhêé-rhëà hüá fhaà fhâò maù-mäí lií mäí-nûó luù rêí-raì raú. |
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| Verse 6 | Ëá-raú uà löá "Uà fhaà ôò raì, uà laè ôò lûá, raá-nëè fhaà raá-ôò lûú uà. Âù-nëè, uà rëé raá raá-môá luù uà fhöá-nöò raá. |
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| Verse 7 | Ïà-êà hâà rhêé-rhëà, roó-hêá löá uà, hüá fhaà ôò raì äù höà-hôù löá lûú raì-hôó. |
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| Verse 8 | Ëá-raú uà roó rhôú-rhôú raì rhôó naé-nôó rhêé naé-môá lûú möá, raì mäò raú maù-mäí. |
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| Verse 9 | Ëá-raú uà löá Naé-hêá fhaà hêì lûú naé-nôó, hié fhaà Ëá-raú uà roó-hêá lûá lûú möá maà naé-nôó. Ëá-raú uà roó rhôú-rhôú raì rhêé naé-môá lûú möá, rhôó naé-nôó. |
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| Interlinear Translation 1 | Being-at every-place (associative particle) world, one language existence, one word-way existence. |
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| Translation 2 | Time people journey going-from sun-rise-direction, they finding plain being-at land Person-sleep-looking-place, they make-home being-at that-place. |
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| Translation 3 | People speech "We(inclusive, + 3rd person) (imperative particle) making making-stone, burning it" going-to people. Result being they having stone, it being making-stone, they having solidity-rendering-liquid, it being black-liquid-earth. |
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| Translation 4 | People speech "We(inclusive, + 3rd person) (imperative particle) making house-group and tallness-house (relative particle) top going-to sky. We(inclusive, + 3rd person) (imperative particle) making name (associative particle) self, purpose being we(inclusive, + 3rd person) not (passive particle) scattering going-to every-place (associative particle) world." |
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| Translation 5 | Making-power He going-down purpose being seeing house-group and tallness-house (relative particle) people-children making. |
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| Translation 6 | Making-power He speech "They being one people, they having one language, this-doing being first-doing (associative particle) them. This-time, they ability doing every-doing (relative particle) they solidity-thought doing. |
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| Translation 7 | We(inclusive) (imperative particle) going-down, rendering-disorder speech them, purpose being one person not hearing-knowledge speech (associative particle) other-person. |
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| Translation 8 | Making-power He rendering scattering people going-from that-place going-to every-place (associative particle) world, people stop making house-group. |
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| Translation 9 | Making-power He speech Disorder-place being name (associative particle) that-place, reason being Making-power He rendering-disorder language (associative particle) world being-at that-place. Making-power He rendering scattering people going-to every-place (associative particle) world, going-from that-place. |
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| Submitted By | Fen Yik |
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| Date Submitted | Saturday, March 27, 2004 |
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| Updated By | Fen Yik |
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| Date Edited | Monday, March 07, 2005 |
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| Description Of Update | Minor edits; cleaned up intro & translations |
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| Date To Headline | Monday, March 07, 2005 |
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