sish, vel, shol

sish = 6
vel = 7
shol = 8
zul = 9
deg = 10

EN: In original Volapük the number for 10 was 'bals' --- adding the plural ending to the word 'bal'. Balapuk doesn't have any plural ending, so I adopted the 'deg' from revised Volapük.

EO: En malnova Volapuk 'dek' estas 'bals' --- 'bal' kaj la plurala 's'. Balapuk ne havas pluralo. 'Deg' devenas el nova Volapük.

DE: In alte Volapük 'bals' bedeutet 'zehn'. Der 's' is die Volapükische Mehrzahl. Balapuk hat keine Mehrzahl. So benutze ich das Wort 'deg' aus neue Volapük.

kil e kil binij sish = 3+3=6
fol e fol binij shol = 4+4=8
lul e tel binij vel = 5+2=7
zul e bal binij lul e lul 9+1=5+5

tsal deg e tsalosh shol = ten kings and eight queens/dek reghoj kaj ok reghinoj/zehn Könige und acht Königinnen
tsal e tsaletosh fol e tsalet bal = the king and four princesses and one prince/la regho kaj kvar reghidinoj kaj unu reghido/Der König und vier Prinzessinnen und ein Prinz

Why doesn't Balapuk have a plural? Just because nouns in English add a plural marker (usually 's') doesn't mean that happens in all languages. Some Asian languages don't and that's why an Asian person, speaking English, might say 'Nissa has a lot of cat.' instead of 'Nissa has a lot of cats.'


And besides, I just thought it would be fun to build a language without a plural marker.

bal, tel, kil.....

Today our 'word of the day' is five words--- the first 5 numbers. All of these numbers are taken directly from Volapük. Where Fr. Schleyer* got them from I don't have any idea.....

We also have the verb 'to be' = binij. The verb ending is -ij, which is pronounced like the 'ee' in feet.


bal = 1
tel = 2
kil = 3
fol = 4
lul = 5

bal e bal binij tel = 1+1=2
tel e kil binij lul = 2+3=5
tel e tel binij fol = 2+2=4
fol e bal binij lul = 4+1=5
tel e bal binij kil = 2+1=3

kat bal e katet lul = one cat and five kittens/unu kato kaj kvin katidoj/Eine Katze und fünf Kätzchen
rat fol e katet fol = four rats and four kittens/kvar ratoj kaj kvar katidoj/vier Ratten und vier Kätzchen

*Father Johann Martin Schleyer was the creator of Volapük.

ratetop

ratetop
EN: rat nest, lit. 'baby rat place'.
EO: rata nesto, 'ratidejo'
DE: Ratte-Nest 'Platz für junge Ratten'

EN: Today's Balapuk word is a constructed word using two of the word-building prefixes. Similar words can be constructed to indicated the nesting or whelping areas of different animals. For example, 'katetop' is the place where my cat had her kittens. A cat will only rarely choose a 'katetop' that her person wants her to use for a 'katetop'.

EO: La hodiawa Balapuka vorto estas kunmetita vorto, kiu uzas du afiksoj. Oni povas konstrui similaj vortoj por la nesto aw ido-loko por bestoj. Ekzemple, 'katetop' estas la loko por mia kato kaj shiajn katidojn.


DE: Die heutige Balapuk-Wort ist ein Wort gebaut mit zwei der Präfixe. Ähnliche Wörter kann man machen, für Nesten von viele Vögel und Tiere. 'Katetop' ist der Platz, wo die Katze und ihre 'Kinder' leben.

-op
EN: suffix that indicates places, like Esperanto -ejo or Volapük -öp, which is from the VO word 'top' which means 'place' (from EN 'topography' I presume.)
EO: sufikso kiel '-ejo'. Devenas el 'top' = loko, ejo.
DE: Suffix für Ort oder Platz, wie Esperanto -ejo. Es kommt aus das Wort 'top' = Ort, Platz.

kat e katet in katetop, rat e ratet in ratetop

rat
EN: rat
EO: rato
DE: Ratte
VO: rat
KO: 쥐 (jwi)
JA: ネズミ (nezumi)
ZH: 大鼠 (dà shǔ)

top
EN: place, location
EO: loko, ejo
DE: Ort, Platz
KO: 장소 (jangso)
JA: 場所 (basho)
ZH: 位置 (wèizhì)

in
EN: in
EO: en
DE: in
VO: in
KO: 에 (e)
JA: で (de)
ZH: 在 (zài)

e
EN: and
EO: kaj
DE: und
VO: e
KO: 및 (mich)
JA: と (to)
ZH: 和 (hé)

Balapuk Word of the Day: katet

katet

EN: English = kitten
EO: Esperanto = katido
DE: Deutsch = Kätzchen
VO: Volapük = katil, katül
KO: 한국어 = 새끼 고양이 (saekki goyangi)
JA: 日本語 = 子ネコ (ko neko)
ZH: 简体中文版 = 小猫 (xiǎomāo)

kat

EN: English = cat
EO: Esperanto = kato
DE: Deutsch = Katze
VO: Volapük = kat
KO: 한국어 = 고양이 (goyangi)
JA: 日本語 = 猫 (neko)
ZH: 简体中文版 = 猫 (māo)

kat e katet, katet e kat = kato kaj katido, katido kaj kato

katet Yeonyi

I really love kittens. So I urgently need a word for kitten in Balapuk. I also have included the word for cat so one can compare.

Looking up the Asian languages I've learned some interesting things. I found the Japanese word for kitten using BabelFish. As always, I double-checked by cut-and-pasting the Japanese word into BabelFish to translate it back to English. The result was 'child cat'. And did you notice that the Chinese for cat is 'Mao'? Poor kitties!

Coming soon in Word of the Day--- a word that means both 'chopstick' and 'fork'. And numbers! And eventually verbs--- but not irregular verbs. (Balapuk verbs all use Metamucil.)

For translation I use:
BabelFish
Traduku for Esperanto
Hong's Hangul Conversion Tools for Korean transliteration
Romanji Translator for Japanese transliteration
Chinese to English Conversion for Chinese translation and transliteration

Balapuk word of the day: tsaletosh

tsaletosh

EN: English = princess
EO: Esperanto = reghidino
DE: Deutsch = Prinzessin
VO: Volapük = jiregason
KO: 한국어 = 공주 (gongju)
JA: 日本語 = 王女 (oujo)
ZH: 简体中文版 = 公主 (gōngzhǔ)

Root word is 'tsal', meaning 'king, emperor, monarch'. The Volapük word for king is 'reg' which has the Evil Letter R in it.

Balapuk word of the day: bel

bel


EN: English = mountain
EO: Esperanto = monto
DE: Deutsch = Berg
VO: Volapük = bel
KO: 한국어 = 산 (san)
JA: 日本語 = 山 (yama)
CN: 简体中文版 = 山 (shān)

EN: bel is also the Volapük word for mountain, derived from the German word Berg. Note that the 'r' in Berg is replaced by 'l'. This was done often in the original form of Volapük, not so much in the modern form.

In Balapook 'r' is always replaced by 'l' because I really hate the letter 'r'.