Billy Budd

The Third Language Creation Conference has now come to an end. They probably will be posting the lectures and events from the conference at conlang dot org, after the videos become available. One of the pieces on display there was a page I’d translated into Tapissary from the story Billy Budd. This page begins Chapter Eight. The first two sentences in the English original follow below, and I read them in Tapissary on the audio file. The conference contained a wide variety of projects by language inventors, and is well worth the time to check out.

Listen to first line in Tapissary here:

English

The lieutenants and other commissioned gentlemen forming Captain Vere’s staff it is not necessary here to particularize, nor needs it to make any mention of any of the warrant officers. But among the petty officers was one who, having much to do with the story, may as well be forthwith introduced.

Tapissary

Ze lyëtnañw na droushca comisyiiñou mitralic_adaµw cölibad capiten Vere’n staf o isis néséser htar la parcyëlëriz, nor beshzohon o mëzca ebar meniiñ y’ebar y’ze mañda wazifiwr. Mas bain ze pëti wazifiwr, hi pyeñ é oñ shë, xazad metr fer tis psö yistwar, miñ oubiñ byiñ psa forth’tis vosttou.