Research and Foreign Language Assistance Thread

[Pax Mundi]

What would be the Latin, Arabic, Russian and Chinese (Mandarin) translations "Union of Terran States"?

States refers to federal polities, if clarification is required.

[Eradicator]

Hey guys.
I will translate your Nation names, City names, Leader names to Old South Arabian, Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Arabic.
I will also Latinise, Turkify, Arabise, Graecise and Indify the above too.

[Ebengar]

Can you change my nation's name into a Turkish version?

[Voxija]

Give me my nation's name in Greek, Latin, Arabic, Turkish, please.

[Ko-oren]

Could you translate my nation's name to Latin and Greek, please?

[Viriam]

I can help with How to Build a conlang, as well as my own Conlang (Viri/Viriamian), and IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Help.

[Mambenga]

I don't suppose we have any liNgala or kiSwahili speakers.

[HUElavia]

I personally speak English and Spanish fluently, and I speak proficiently (B2 Level) of French. Plus, I have a decent knowledge of Cultures of Latin America and some traditions they have.

[Wohlheim]

Guten Abend aus Großbritannien,

What would be the German translation of "Interstellar Dominion of Wohlheim"? The current translation I’ve created is [i]Interstellare Herrschaft der Wohlheim.

Cheers.

[Lillorainen]

Guten Abend aus Großbritannien,

What would be the German translation of "Interstellar Dominion of Wohlheim"? The current translation I’ve created is [i]Interstellare Herrschaft der Wohlheim.

Cheers.

Guten Abend aus Deutschland,

Interstellare Herrschaft already sounds good (you may use the article Die Interstellare Herrschaft - it's not mandatory, but it may sound better), but it would be ... von Wohlheim, or only Wohlheim (like I use Föderation Lillorainen for my own nation), but in no case der. ^^

Cheers!

[Wohlheim]

Guten Abend aus Großbritannien,

What would be the German translation of "Interstellar Dominion of Wohlheim"? The current translation I’ve created is [i]Interstellare Herrschaft der Wohlheim.

Cheers.

Guten Abend aus Deutschland,

Interstellare Herrschaft already sounds good (you may use the article Die Interstellare Herrschaft - it's not mandatory, but it may sound better), but it would be ... von Wohlheim, or only Wohlheim (like I use Föderation Lillorainen for my own nation), but in no case der. ^^

Cheers!

Ah, danke schön!

[Lillorainen]

Guten Abend aus Deutschland,

Interstellare Herrschaft already sounds good (you may use the article Die Interstellare Herrschaft - it's not mandatory, but it may sound better), but it would be ... von Wohlheim, or only Wohlheim (like I use Föderation Lillorainen for my own nation), but in no case der. ^^

Cheers!

Ah, danke schön!

Gern geschehen!

[National Socialist Poland-Lithuania]

I can help with Chinese or Japanese.
OP, if you are reading this, please remove my old nation from the list - I do not want to be associated with it anymore.

[Eradicator]

Give me my nation's name in Greek, Latin, Arabic, Turkish, please.

Boksia (Greek)
Bozium (Latin)
al-Wooqah (Arabic)
Vukistan (Turkish)

[Eradicator]

Could you translate my nation's name to Latin and Greek, please?

Corenium (Latin)
Korithania (Greek)

[Eradicator]

Could an Arabic-speaker please translate my full nation name into Arabic?

The Democratic Federation of New Transeurasia

Literal Translation : al-Itihad ad-Dimukratiyyah Ma Wara al-Urooba al-Jadeed
Arabized nation name: Nafutransawiyyah or al-Transawiyyah or an-Narooba

[Eradicator]

I can help with How to Build a conlang, as well as my own Conlang (Viri/Viriamian), and IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Help.

Hey can you Virize my nation name

[The Islands of Versilia]

Hello,

How exactly could I simplify Latin to make it much easier to utilise both realistically and for roleplaying? I am currently trying to add information on the Versilian language, which is descended from Latin spoken in the early medieval period, specifically around the 600s CE.

If you could provide examples, too, that’d be great.

Thanks.

[Roma and Italia]

Could someone help me with something?

I am trying to make a more Latin name for carabinieri and worked my back to the word Calabrinus "Calabrian"

https://www.etymonline.com/word/carabinieri
https://www.etymonline.com/word/carbine ... sreference

I wanna work my way up with the latin and try to get a translation of sorts for carabinineri.

[Blodrike]

Hello,

How exactly could I simplify Latin to make it much easier to utilise both realistically and for roleplaying? I am currently trying to add information on the Versilian language, which is descended from Latin spoken in the early medieval period, specifically around the 600s CE.

If you could provide examples, too, that’d be great.

Thanks.

Eliminate all the noun cases/declensions. For example, in Latin "god" is deus if the noun is a subject, but deo if it's an object. This has been dropped in most modern Latin-derived languages. As an IC explanation for your lore, you could say Versilian evolved parallel to other Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) that also underwent a simplification. This may be the idea you're looking for.

[The Islands of Versilia]

Hello,

How exactly could I simplify Latin to make it much easier to utilise both realistically and for roleplaying? I am currently trying to add information on the Versilian language, which is descended from Latin spoken in the early medieval period, specifically around the 600s CE.

If you could provide examples, too, that’d be great.

Thanks.

Eliminate all the noun cases/declensions. For example, in Latin "god" is deus if the noun is a subject, but deo if it's an object. This has been dropped in most modern Latin-derived languages. As an IC explanation for your lore, you could say Versilian evolved parallel to other Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) that also underwent a simplification. This may be the idea you're looking for.

That’s excellent, thank you.

[Da Zhonghua Minguo]

Hello, I can help with Chinese and Japanese.

[Grand Indochina]

I would like to help as a specialist for the Vietnamese language.

Can someone translate these words into German, Russian and Gothic :

“The land where the elves ruled” and “The peninsula surrounds by mist”.

If possible, can you shorten the words so that it may sounds like a a name ?

Thank you !

[Arevastan]

I would like to help as a specialist for the Vietnamese language.

Can someone translate these words into German, Russian and Gothic :

“The land where the elves ruled” and “The peninsula surrounds by mist”.

If possible, can you shorten the words so that it may sounds like a a name ?

Thank you !

Russian:

Земля где эльфы царствовали (zemlya gde el'fy tsarstvovali) - "The land where the elves ruled"

I'm not sure you can really shorten it to that effect, but Былое господство эльфов (byloye gospodstvo el'fov) "Bygone Realm of the Elves" is as close as I can get.

Туманный полуостров (tumannyy poluostrov) - "Misty Peninsula"

As close to a name as possible.

Gothic:

Albireiki - elven kingdom

Fruma albireiki - former kingdom of the elves

Albigardi - "Elven Court," by analogy with þiudangardi "kingdom." Sounds kinda sexy, if I may say. It may not have any connotations of a ruined kingdom, but it sounds cool.

Niblahalbauja - "Mist Peninsula" (note that we do not know the word for "fog" in Gothic, so nibls is a reconstruction)

Unfortunately, our Indo-European languages are poor when it comes to phrasing sentences as single words, unlike many Native American languages.

[Lillorainen]

I would like to help as a specialist for the Vietnamese language.

Can someone translate these words into German, Russian and Gothic :

“The land where the elves ruled” and “The peninsula surrounds by mist”.

If possible, can you shorten the words so that it may sounds like a a name ?

Thank you !

Russian:

Земля где эльфы царствовали (zemlya gde el'fy tsarstvovali) - "The land where the elves ruled"

I'm not sure you can really shorten it to that effect, but Былое господство эльфов (byloye gospodstvo el'fov) "Bygone Realm of the Elves" is as close as I can get.

Туманный полуостров (tumannyy poluostrov) - "Misty Peninsula"

As close to a name as possible.

Gothic:

Albireiki - elven kingdom

Fruma albireiki - former kingdom of the elves

Albigardi - "Elven Court," by analogy with þiudangardi "kingdom." Sounds kinda sexy, if I may say. It may not have any connotations of a ruined kingdom, but it sounds cool.

Niblahalbauja - "Mist Peninsula" (note that we do not know the word for "fog" in Gothic, so nibls is a reconstruction)

Unfortunately, our Indo-European languages are poor when it comes to phrasing sentences as single words, unlike many Native American languages.

Based on Arevastan's way to translate and shorten the name, and since you've asked for German as well, "The land where the elves ruled", literally translated, Das Land, in dem die Elfen regierten, could be shortened as Elfenreich (realm of the elves), or Elfenkönigreich (kingdom of the elves), maybe also with Das ehemalige ... (The Former ...) before it, depending on what you think suits better. In lieu of that, you might also use Das vergangene Elfen(könig)reich, to give it a more mystical sound.
For "Misty peninsula", Nebelige Halbinsel would work fine, maybe even Nebelhalbinsel - I'd personally go with the latter, for it more sounds like a name. German does have quite an advantage when it comes to creating compound words and names, compared to other Indo-European languages.