[Spellyans] Translating the Bible into Cornish

[Ken MacKinnon]

A Nicholas ker,

I have tried to access the internet address for your paper on tranaslation.  However without success.  If this contains a copy of your paper and this is in readily transmissible form as an e-mail attachment I would very much like to read it.

gans gweytyans - an Ken ken

(Prof) Ken MacKinnon,
Ivy Cottage, Ferintosh,
The Black Isle, by Dingwall,
Ross-shire  IV7 8HX
Tel: 01349 - 863460
E-mail: kenmackinnon at enterprise.net


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: nicholas williams 
  To: Standard Cornish discussion list 
  Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 6:07 PM
  Subject: [Spellyans] Translating the Bible into Cornish


  Earlier today I gave a short paper at an international conference on translation in Trinity College, Dublin. 


  The title of the conference was "Translation Right or Wrong".
  see http://www.tcd.ie/langs-lits-cultures/postgraduate/literary_translation/conference2009.php


  My paper was on translating the scriptures into Cornish. 
  All the examples of the right and the wrong way to translate the Bible into Cornish were
  taken from published portions of the scriptures, most notably the two available
  versions of the New Testament.


  I also pointed out that Nance's word  *Bybel was probably not correctly formed, being borrowed from Breton Bibl.
  If the word had been borrowed from Middle English, it would appear
  in Cornish as *Bybla; cf. Irish Bíobla.
  If, as is more likely, it had been borrowed after the Reformation,
  the word would appear in Cornish as *Beybel; cf. Welsh Beibl.


  In which case, the title THE HOLY BIBLE is best rendered in the revived language as AN BEYBEL SANS.


  Nicholas




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