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Jesus Prayer in Various Languages – LeoWong

LeoWong
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I've started a Java applet that shows the Jesus Prayer ("Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner") in various languages: English, Spanish, Italian, German, and French:

Jesus Prayer

I would appreciate help in adding versions in other languages.

Leo
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Miami Brice

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Here it is in my native language, Tsalagi (Cherokee):

Unelanvhi Tsisa Galonedv, Unelanvhi Uwetsi, uha adadolisdi nahna asgani nasgiyai ayv.

Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son, have mercy on sinner like me.

(had to slightly change it as some words have no equal in Tsalagi)

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Originally posted by Miami Brice:
Here it is in my native language, Tsalagi (Cherokee):

Unelanvhi Tsisa Galonedv, Unelanvhi Uwetsi, uha adadolisdi nahna asgani nasgiyai ayv.

Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son, have mercy on sinner like me.

(had to slightly change it as some words have no equal in Tsalagi)


Thank you very much. I've added it.

Leo

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np, glad to help
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LeoWong
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quote:
Originally posted by Miami Brice:
Unelanvhi Tsisa Galonedv, Unelanvhi Uwetsi, uha adadolisdi nahna asgani nasgiyai ayv.

I notice that there's Unicode for Cherokee. I would love to put the Jesus Prayer in a Cherokee font, but how many people would be able to see it?

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Miami Brice

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I notice that there's Unicode for Cherokee. I would love to put the Jesus Prayer in a Cherokee font, but how many people would be able to see it?
Almost none ;c) Cherkoee is actually written in two different ways. The most common way (today) is as I provided using the English alphabet. I can read and write that fluently. Not so common today is using the Cherokee alphabet, I have a lot of difficulty reading/writing it myself.
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Originally posted by Miami Brice:
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Cherkoee is actually written in two different ways. The most common way (today) is as I provided using the English alphabet. I can read and write that fluently. Not so common today is using the Cherokee alphabet, I have a lot of difficulty reading/writing it myself.

I might still ask you to give me the separate letters (U-ne-la-nv-hi, etc.?) to see how they might appear, in say, Arial Unicode MS (if I have it).

Leo
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Miami Brice

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I will be happy to write it out (may take ma a couple of days) and send it off to you via snail mail, but I haven't the foggiest on how to do it on the computer.
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Originally posted by Miami Brice:
I will be happy to write it out (may take ma a couple of days) and send it off to you via snail mail, but I haven't the foggiest on how to do it on the computer.

One possibility is to give me the Unicode numbers from

Cherokee

but first let me see if I have Arial Unicode MS at home. At work I would only see little boxes.

Of course, it would be a treasure to have it your handwriting. I'll give you my address if it comes to that.

Thanks,
Leo
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I have Arial Unicode MS at home, but it doesn't seem to want to show me Cherokee ;-(

Leo
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Miami Brice

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No, all it should show is little boxes unless you have the cherokee font actually installed. I tried that once a long time ago, but the font wasn't too compatible with more current keyboards.
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Originally posted by Miami Brice:
No, all it should show is little boxes unless you have the cherokee font actually installed. I tried that once a long time ago, but the font wasn't too compatible with more current keyboards.

I thought Arial Unicode MS had most of Unicode covered, but there seem to be significant gaps.

Leo

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to be significant gaps.
I wouldn't call it a significant gap. What is the world up to now? 6 Billon or more people? There are only around 700,000 Cherokee people in the world, and only a small percentage of these will be able to read and write the Cherokee language using the Cherokee alphabet. The majority of Cherokee read and write the language using the English alphabet as I did for you.

[This message has been edited by Miami Brice (edited May 13, 2004).]

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Originally posted by Miami Brice:
[B] [QUOTE]to be significant gaps.

To me, one would be significant. Thanks very much, Miami.

Leo


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Today, Holy Thursday, speaking in these tongues:

English, French, German, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Cherokee,
Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Serbian, Vietnamese, Slovak, Old Church
Slavonic, Russian, Hebrew, Hawaiian, Greek, Polish, Czech, Maori,
Swahili, Albanian, Portuguese, Plautdietsch, Romanian, Haitian,
Japanese, Tagalog, Danish, Icelandic, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Norse

Jesus Prayer in Several Languages

Would be nice to add a few more for Pentecost.

Leo
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[This message has been edited by LeoWong (edited May 20, 2004).]

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was going to give ya Maori, but it seems you already have it..
(freaky how close hawaiian is).

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Originally posted by klumsy:
was going to give ya Maori, but it seems you already have it..
(freaky how close hawaiian is).



My Maori could very well be wrong. Will you please check it?

Leo
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LeoWong
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Originally posted by LeoWong:
My Maori could very well be wrong. Will you please check it?

Leo
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You don't have to look at the applet:

E te Ariki Ihi Karaiti, et te Tama a te Atua,
kia aroha ki ahau, te tangata hara.

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Add a couple more versions:

Jesus Prayer: Choose Font

Jesus Prayer: Choose Language and Font

Will not work with MS JVM or early Sun JVM.

Leo
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