Research and Foreign Language Assistance Thread

[Kilhosz]

I can help with Tsukiese if you telegram me to help with Tsukiese to English or another language.
But for Basic Words, Numbers, And colors see this:
https://dreamfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Li ... iese_words

This thread is more about your availability to help with translating to actual languages, not conlangs; most other people have no need to translate text to a different nation's conlang.

[The Islands of Versilia]

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[Third Asopia]

Hello

I require assistance in translating the name of my nation - Hangao - into Hakka Chinese and English, hoping that both parts of the word have different meanings, which would relate to one another in some way.

Hangao is based off of these historic states: The Kongsi or 'Company' Republics.

While I can't help you in Hakka, I can help you in English. However, I didn't see anything related to Hangao in the thread you said. Well if it is based in these states, then the name could be 含，韩 or汉 for 'Han'. For 'Gao' it could be 高or告. I prefer 含高 since it reflects a nation/kingdom that is cherished by many and it is like a high place or something.

[The Islands of Versilia]

Hello,

I’m curious about how the surname "Reynes" might be like Latinised, like the following: Amerigo = Americus. It’s for a place name.

[Lillorainen]

Hello,

I’m curious about how the surname "Reynes" might be like Latinised, like the following: Amerigo = Americus. It’s for a place name.

Oii,

Maybe "Renesius" or "Renasius" (or -ia/-iana for a place name), or something along those lines?

I've found a place called Reynès in Southern France, but sadly, no Latin name, so I made the above up myself ...

[The Islands of Versilia]

Hello,

I’m curious about how the surname "Reynes" might be like Latinised, like the following: Amerigo = Americus. It’s for a place name.

Oii,

Maybe "Renesius" or "Renasius" (or -ia/-iana for a place name), or something along those lines?

I've found a place called Reynès in Southern France, but sadly, no Latin name, so I made the above up myself ...

Thanks. I’m currently trying to come up with a solid name for an alternate Bermuda, and since it was originally named after a Spanish explorer, I simply looked into English surnames of the same(ish) time period and planned to latinise them.

It doesn’t roll off the tongue well, admittedly. Two many syllables in my opinion, I guess. I’ll have to keep thinking of names.

Thanks for your help either way, though

[Lillorainen]

Oii,

Maybe "Renesius" or "Renasius" (or -ia/-iana for a place name), or something along those lines?

I've found a place called Reynès in Southern France, but sadly, no Latin name, so I made the above up myself ...

Thanks. I’m currently trying to come up with a solid name for an alternate Bermuda, and since it was originally named after a Spanish explorer, I simply looked into English surnames of the same(ish) time period and planned to latinise them.

It doesn’t roll off the tongue well, admittedly. Two many syllables in my opinion, I guess. I’ll have to keep thinking of names.

Thanks for your help either way, though

Yeah, it probably doesn't roll off well ... if you had a list of further English explorers' names you might wish to use at hand, maybe there'd be one amongst them, whose Latinized name might roll off easier?

In any case, no problem.

[Estado Novo Portugues]

As I was reading about the Julian Assange arrest, I came across this quote which I thought would be a quite fitting motto for one of my puppets, when translated into Latin:

The hand of democracy squeezes the throat of freedom.

Does anybody know how to say squeeze/constrict/strangle, and throat/neck in Latin? Would the rest of the sentence be like this?

Manus democratiae XXX XXX libertatis (subject + possessive + verb + object + possessive)

[Lahnland]

Questions:

What might a translation of "Totalism" be in German? Gehamt is "total" in German, I believe, so would it be "Gehamtismus"?

[Lillorainen]

Questions:

What might a translation of "Totalism" be in German? Gehamt is "total" in German, I believe, so would it be "Gehamtismus"?

If you refer to the political concept, then Totalitarismus ("totalitarianism") would be the correct term. Such technical terms with a Greek or Latin origin are usually either the same, or something along the same lines, in German - the word components aren't translated.
(For the records - 'total' would be gesamt.)

[Lahnland]

Questions:

What might a translation of "Totalism" be in German? Gehamt is "total" in German, I believe, so would it be "Gehamtismus"?

If you refer to the political concept, then Totalitarismus ("totalitarianism") would be the correct term. Such technical terms with a Greek or Latin origin are usually either the same, or something along the same lines, in German - the word components aren't translated.
(For the records - 'total' would be gesamt.)

Ah, alright. Danke.

[Shiruku]

Could someone please translate "As One We Rise" into Japanese & Chinese

[Diarcesia]

Can 多林国 in Chinese be used to mean "Country of Many Forests"?

[Dawetid]

Can 多林国 in Chinese be used to mean "Country of Many Forests"?

Yes. To be honest 多林 already sounds like a name.

[Diarcesia]

Can 多林国 in Chinese be used to mean "Country of Many Forests"?

Yes. To be honest 多林 already sounds like a name.

Thanks!

[Cisplata]

Any native Spanish speakers here? These are the lyrics I'd like to use for my national anthem, and I want to make sure they're grammatically correct. This is the music, by the way.

Spanish lyrics	English translation
Estrofa I Cisplata, ¡oh Patria querida! La nuestra gloriosa nación que está fuerte y llena de vida. Cantamos por ti tu canción. Cantamos tu heroíca historia que el sangre del pueblo escribió. Y siempre en nuestra memoria, cada que ser libre murió.	1st Verse Cisplata, oh beloved Fatherland! Our glorious nation that is strong and full of life. For thee we sing thy song. We sing thy heroic history that is written by the people's blood. And each one who died to be free is in our memory forever.
Coro ¡Cisplatinos, vencemos! Ver el rojo amanecer. Tú, república de los libres, ¡juramos a te defender! Cantamos la gloria de una brava nación. ¡Un milenio de victoria, de paz, de poder, de unión!	Chorus Cisplatines, let us win! See the red dawn. We swear to defend thee, thou republic of the free people! We sing the glory of a mighty nation. A thousand years of victory, of peace, of power, of unity!
Estrofa II Unión, igualdad, socialismo: el genio de Marx y Lenín. Nunca más el cruel despotismo contra que luchamos sin fin. Tus hijos no temen la guerra, la valiente batalla final. Y todos los pueblos en la Tierra se unen en la Internacional.	2nd Verse Union, equality, socialism: the genius of Marx and Lenin. Never again the cruel tyranny against which we endlessly fight. Thy sons are not afraid of war, the valiant final battle. And all the peoples on Earth unite in the Internationale.
Coro ¡Cisplatinos, vencemos! Ver el rojo amanecer. Tú, república de los libres, ¡juramos a te defender! Cantamos la gloria de una brava nación. ¡Un milenio de victoria, de paz, de poder, de unión!	Chorus Cisplatines, let us win! See the red dawn. We swear to defend thee, thou republic of the free people! We sing the glory of a mighty nation. A thousand years of victory, of peace, of power, of unity!

[Dawetid]

In Polish, what is the difference between "zakazany" and "zbanowany"?

[The Brytish Isles]

Would "Cīvicārum Factione" translate into something akin to "Citizens’ Party"? I translated "Conservative party" into Latin via google translate, found the genitive plural of "civicus" and slapped it on there. It’s an alternative name for one of my IC political parties, which bases a lot of its aesthetics on Imperial Roman and Ancient Greek aesthetics.

[Great Nortend]

Factione is an ablative. You want the nominative, Factio. Civicus is an adjective, not a noun. You want civitas, which means inter alia 'citizens of a country'. Civitatis Factio would seem best to me.

[The Brytish Isles]

Factione is an ablative. You want the nominative, Factio. Civicus is an adjective, not a noun. You want civitas, which means inter alia 'citizens of a country'. Civitatis Factio would seem best to me.

Thank you

[National Socialist Poland-Lithuania]

Is there a Lithuanian cognate of the Polish „wódz”?

[Great Vesperia]

What would/might be the Latin, French and Spanish translations of "Great Vesperian Empire"? Vesperia is an alternate name for Canada, which means land of the evening star AFAIK.

[The Ponyic Islands]

I could help with Dutch/Flemish. Note: I'm from Flanders, so I'm less capable of answering questions about the Walloon/Dutch (NL) culture.

[Estado Novo Portugues]

What would/might be the Latin, French and Spanish translations of "Great Vesperian Empire"? Vesperia is an alternate name for Canada, which means land of the evening star AFAIK.

French: Grand-Empire de Vespérie

Spanish: Gran Imperio de Vesperia or Imperio Grande de Vesperia. Gran and grande both mean "great", but it's gran if it comes before the noun, or grande if it comes after.

[Great Vesperia]

What would/might be the Latin, French and Spanish translations of "Great Vesperian Empire"? Vesperia is an alternate name for Canada, which means land of the evening star AFAIK.

French: Grand-Empire de Vespérie

Spanish: Gran Imperio de Vesperia or Imperio Grande de Vesperia. Gran and grande both mean "great", but it's gran if it comes before the noun, or grande if it comes after.

Thanks.