For the past couple years I've been working (sporadically) on a project to be able to produce a high-quality aligned parallel Bible in all languages for which there's a freely-available translation. What sets this project apart from others is that any language pairs can be chosen, and a nicely-typeset book is automatically generated. Here are the languages that I currently have:
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Chinese (simplified)
- Chinese (traditional)
- Croatian
- Czech (2 translations)
- Danish
- Dutch
- English (4 translations: KJV, ASV, WEB, and BBE)
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek (LXX, TR, and WH)
- Hebrew (BHS, WLC, and modern)
- Hungarian
- Italian (2 translations)
- Latin
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Syriac (NT)
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
This gives over 400 possible pairings. Adding additional languages or translations is pretty easy.
Below is a sample text. The printed version is not highlighted like the images below.
If you try to read any of the above text samples, you'll receive the gift of knowledge.
(but don't give it away)
Update: I'm delighted that several of you have made an effort to decipher the message. Here's another sample that might help out:
Second Update: Some of you have mentioned that the above languages are difficult. So I'm adding another pair of languages that are considerably easier to decipher:
:-P
Update: I'm delighted that several of you have made an effort to decipher the message. Here's another sample that might help out:
Second Update: Some of you have mentioned that the above languages are difficult. So I'm adding another pair of languages that are considerably easier to decipher:
:-P
15 comments:
Huh? Could you enlighten me in English please? MOM
I figured out what verses you used. I guess that's a start for figuring out what knowledge we're supposed to find.
The texts look very beautiful, btw. Too bad none of them are in the roman script.
Thank goodness Matt remembers enough of his Russian to decipher it.
Also, which German translation?
Latin script (and especially English) would have been too easy :-)
FM: I went with the Luther (1912), but I can easily add the Luther (1514), the Schlachter (1951), or the Elberfelder (1871 or 1905).
Good thing Avram knows Hebrew on sight better than I do!
I can't help but notice that Neo-Melanesian hasn't made the list yet.
Ahhh, Neo-Melanesian -- such a great language. Anytime I read something in Bislama (or its sister language Neo-Melanesian/Tok Pisin), it brightens my day.
I need to post a blog article about how awesome that language is.
Sadly, no digital version.
Neo-Melanesian??? Why not Klingon?
"Here's another sample that might help out." Just how is adding two more unrecognizable languages to the other four I found incomprehensible going to help me any? And people complain about understanding Isaiah.
That said, I commend you for having such a mind that understands such things, including languages and translations that I have never heard of. (LOLCats is particularly enjoyable, by the way, and would make a very fun code language. Thanks for that reference.)
Klingon, indeed. Sadly, with my experience with the internet, it would probably translate that one faster than it did some of these other ones when der Meister was trying to decipher this message. Though I would hope that's not so.
It's all Greek to me.
Just how is adding two more unrecognizable languages to the other four I found incomprehensible going to help me any?
You watch out or I'll add another language pair ;-)
Speaking of Klingon, I just came across this article: How the Washington Shakespeare Company came to offer Shakespeare in Klingon.
Now. You've. Seen. Everything.
There's a second update to the post, now.
To quote Dylan Thomas "Easy for Leonardo, maybe."
:-P indeed.
Do you do Parseltongue?
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