Ai muze rozhy!

Posted by Philip Newton on 1:38 5/18/02

In reply to: Ai tana rozhy! posted by Philip Newton on 17:19 4/12/02

OK, I suppose I was even more bored, so I had a go at re-writing the web server statistics in Viminian. (And now I'm trying for message #400 ;)

It's probably a really bad attempt, since I only changed the phonology and a small part of the grammar (and made no attempt to account for differences in vocabulary or idiom). Still, you might be interested ;). Stats for my server are available in Latin-1 and in Latin-2 (Latin-2 is recommended if you browser can display it). The language files are also available for download from http://shavian.org/verdurian/analog/analog-howto.html, in case you want Viminian (or Verdurian) in your own web server statistics.

Basically, I made the following changes to the Verdurian:

• Changed all ls to ws
• Changed all î to et
• Changed genitive to de + dative (and dative without preposition, which occurred only in a couple of cases, to ad + dative)
• Changed some other sounds if they came from certain Cadhinor sounds:
  • dh to s when derived from Cadhinor TH: ledhise, ledhad --> wesise, wesad (< LETHA); didha --> disa (< DITHAS)
  • dh to z when derived from Cadhinor DH: mudhe --> muze (< MUSCEDHES); frodhac --> frozac (< FROHES + DHAIKOS); dhol --> zow (< DHOULOS); dham --> zam (< DHAMIR)
  • zh to zhd when derived from Cadhinor CT: bezhia, bezhantau --> bezhdia, bezhdantau (< BECTIA)
  • ö to u when derived from Cadhinor UE: römniru --> rumniru (< RUEMA + NIRUS)

These sound changes are from the reference on Verdurian dialects.

At first, I had changed all the ls to ws, which caused funny effects because I had left some of the HTTP status codes untranslated -- "Service temporariwy unavaiwabwe" sounded rather Elmer Fudd to me :)

Enjoy!

Filipo Petrei Lebdaney