Belandrie Meave wrote: ↑30 Jun 2016 04:04
27. At cin’runi dal’ika, ru’haat’miit riduur be Josevh, kurshok-borarur be bui’tsad be Daved. Cin’runi dal’ika’gai Meri.
28. Miitra’jorur slanar at Meri bal ru’sirbur, “Jate tuur, gar megin cuy laamyc’la ru’riye’miit’la! Al’Alor ti gar.”
You said David, Joseph, and Mary were nearly unrecognizable. I think you did great. As for David, if you left the spelling the English way, a Mando'ad would end up pronouncing it pretty much as a Hebrew speaker would (dah-veed), but it's not so different the way you did it that an English speaker can't work it out. Josevh looks perfect to me. The Hebrew spelling is Yosef if I remember correctly, and you transliterated that perfectly into Mando'a. Meri is recognizable as soon as you say it out loud, especially with the context. The Hebrew form of her name is Miryaim, and that transliterates perfectly into Mando'a if you wanted to go that route. Unfortunately it looks like it would mean "clever home" . . . oh well.