| Site | Vônánà  |
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| Language | Vônánà |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Translator | Curlyjimsam |
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| Introduction | This wasn't really a serious project, and I was just playing around to see if I could make a language that was very dependent on vowels. The finished version has 24, and only twelve consonants. Consonants are pronounced as in English ( is pronounced as /sh/). Vowel pronunciation is complicated, see the website for more details. As I've said, this wasn't really a serious project and I've only been working on it for twelve hours total INCLUDING substantial breaks. There may be mistakes, and I hope to correct them as soon as possible. The name Vônánà means simply 'language'. |
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| Verse 1 | Vônánà nà bî â vè kàtù. |
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| Verse 2 | Íltà a tulá â pé. Ô kîkà â íltàì (we íltà a vônî ině). |
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| Verse 3 | Ô vôn â ûm ô á bî â: Be atú î bobô a ûm be po kákù î ô. Ô kúl â bobô a vŷ bibî a ûm lě mŷ pîi. |
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| Verse 4 | Ûm ô á mè â: Be mab î mabè kè ù a ûm be mab î wélâkù ù. Wélâkù kùlù î ùs mabì. Mémé íltà a kôkô î ô ûm ô mèlo î si. |
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| Verse 5 | Mo Bì kîkà â mabè kè a ûm o tǒ â wélâkù kě íltà a mab â mé. |
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| Verse 6 | Ûm Bì á â: Te ô múl mé àtú tîà mé tŷ, mŷ ô vôn mé vônánà nà ětú, ô múl î àtú î vê. |
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| Verse 7 | O á â: ba múlàtùs î vônánà tô ô mémé ô vèlè î si. |
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| Verse 8 | Ûm Bì mèlo â ô dimè vínu, ûm ô múl â si mab tútàtú â mabè kè a. |
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| Verse 9 | Mémé o ísà mé Babèl, kâtê ka Bì múlàtùs â vônánà tô íltà a. Ka Bì mèlo â íltà a dimè vínu. |
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| Interlinear Translation 1 | Language one exist past-tense in world. |
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| Translation 2 | Person plural move past-tense east. They come-to past-tense country (where person plural call ině). |
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| Translation 3 | They talk past-tense and they say past-tense: We make future-tense brick plural and we bake thoroughly future-tense them. They use past-tense brick plural instead-of stone plural and tar as mortar. |
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| Translation 4 | And they say also past-tense: We build future-tense house indefinite-article many plural and we build future-tense tower indefinite-article. Tower reach future-tense to heaven. So person plural remember future-tense us and we disperse future-tense negative-particle. |
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| Translation 5 | But God come-to past-tense house many plural and he see past-tense tower that person plural build past-tense progressive-aspect. |
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| Translation 6 | And God say past-tense: If they can progressive-aspect do now progressive-aspect this, as they speak progressive-aspect language one just, they be-able-to future-tense do future-tense anything. |
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| Translation 7 | He say past-tense: I confuse future-tense language of them so they understand future-tense negative particle. |
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| Translation 8 | And God scatter past-tense them across planet, and they can past-tense negative-particle build anymore past-tense house many plural. |
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| Translation 9 | So it be-called progressive-aspect Babèl, because there God confuse past-tense language of person plural. There God scatter past-tense person plural across planet. |
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| English Paraphrase 1 | One language existed in the world. |
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| Paraphrase 2 | The people moved eastwards. They came to the country that people call Shinar. |
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| Paraphrase 3 | They talked and they said, We will make bricks and we will bake them thoroughly. They used bricks instead of stones and tar as mortar. |
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| Paraphrase 4 | And they said also, We will build a city and we will build a tower. The tower will reach to Heaven. So people will remember us and we will not be dispersed. |
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| Paraphrase 5 | But God came to the city and he saw the tower that the people were building. |
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| Paraphrase 6 | And God said, If they can do this now, as they speak just one language, they will be able to do anything. |
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| Paraphrase 7 | He said, I will confuse their language so they do not understand each other. |
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| Paraphrase 8 | And God scattered them across the planet, and they could no longer build the city. |
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| Paraphrase 9 | And so it is called Babel, because there God confused the language of the people. There God scattered the people across the planet. |
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| Submitted By | Curlyjimsam |
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| Date Submitted | Sunday, September 26, 2004 |
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| Updated By | Curlyjimsam |
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| Date Edited | Thursday, October 14, 2004 |
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| Description Of Update | Corrections to introduction |
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| Date To Headline | Monday, September 27, 2004 |
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