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 > 9. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. > 9. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
  
-The first attempt to translate the story of Babel's Tower was made by Diego T. Guimarães (aka Ya'qūb 'Abd Al-Jabbār) for [[https://www.omniglot.com/babel/neoblackspeech.htm|Omniglot site]] in Shadowlandian dialect (using early Nûrlâm prototype, Un4given's Orc analysis at [[http://blackspeech.ru/board/viewtopic.php?id=160|Black Speech School forum]]).+The first attempt to translate the story of Babel's Tower was made by Diego T. Guimarães (aka Ya'qūb 'Abd Al-Jabbār) for [[https://www.omniglot.com/babel/neoblackspeech.htm|Omniglot site]] in Shadowlandian dialect (using early Nûrlâm prototype).
  
 ===== Translation in Nûrlâm ===== ===== Translation in Nûrlâm =====
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   * all modifiers are placed **after** the words they describe, including prepositions becoming postpositions, but except number "ash" = "one" and conjunctions   * all modifiers are placed **after** the words they describe, including prepositions becoming postpositions, but except number "ash" = "one" and conjunctions
   * Explicit [[:case_accusative|accusative case]] ending //-ish// except when followed by postpositions   * Explicit [[:case_accusative|accusative case]] ending //-ish// except when followed by postpositions
-  * The [[:verb_to_be|verb "to be"]] is always present, including the present tense+  * The [[:verb_to_be|verb "to be"]] is never omitted, including in present tense
   * Verb--Subject--Object (VSO) word order (except state: "to be" + adjective/participle)   * Verb--Subject--Object (VSO) word order (except state: "to be" + adjective/participle)
   * singular form of pronouns is used for plural pronouns too   * singular form of pronouns is used for plural pronouns too
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