The Lord's Prayer in different languages
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The Lord's Prayer is a common tool used to compare languages. Since the publication of the Mithridates books, translations of the prayer have often been used for a quick comparison of languages, primarily because most earlier philologists were Christians, and very often priests. Due to missionary activity, one of the first texts to be translated between many languages has historically been the Bible, and so to early scholars the most readily available text in any particular language would most likely be a partial or total translation of the Bible. For example, the only extant text in Gothic, a language crucial in the history of Indo-European languages, is Codex Argenteus, the incomplete Bible translated by Wulfila.
This tradition has been opposed recently from both the angle of religious neutrality and of practicality: the forms used in the Lord's prayer (many commands) are not very representative of common discourse. Philologists and language enthusiasts have proposed other texts such as the Babel text (also part of the Bible) or the story of the North Wind and the Sun. In Soviet language sciences the complete works of Lenin were often used for comparison, as they were translated to most languages in the 20th century.
This list compares the Lord's Prayer in different languages to an English version. Please note that the comparisons are generally not word-by-word translations.
[edit] Greek
[edit] Koine Greek
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[edit] Germanic
[edit] Afrikaans
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[edit] Anglo-Saxon
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[edit] Danish
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[edit] Dutch
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[edit] English
Old English ca. 1000
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Middle English 1384
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1662 Book of Common Prayer
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International Consultation on English Texts
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Late 20thC
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[edit] Faeroese
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[edit] German
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[edit] Gothic
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[edit] Icelandic
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[edit] Low Saxon
[edit] Northern Low Saxon (Germany)
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[edit] Dutch Low Saxon
Achterhoeks (Winterswiek) dial.
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Grunnegs dialect
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West-Veluws (Putten) dial.
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West-Veluws (Nunspeet) dial.
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[edit] Pennsylvania German
Writing System 1
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Writing System 2
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[edit] Plautdietsch
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[edit] Luxembourgish
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[edit] Norn
Orkney Norn
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Shetland Norn
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[edit] Norwegian
1978 edition Bokmål
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1978 edition Nynorsk
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[edit] Old Norse
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[edit] Scots
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[edit] Swedish
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[edit] Uncategorized Germanic Origin
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[edit] Romance
[edit] French
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[edit] Italian
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[edit] Sicilian
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[edit] Latin
Standard Latin form
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[edit] Portuguese
Catholic
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Protestant
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English
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[edit] Romanian
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[edit] Catalan
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[edit] Spanish
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[edit] Slavic
[edit] Belarusian
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[edit] Bulgarian
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[edit] Church Slavonic
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[edit] Croatian
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[edit] Czech
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[edit] Lower Sorbian
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[edit] Macedonian
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[edit] Polish
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[edit] Russian
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[edit] Serbian
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[edit] Slovak
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[edit] Slovenian
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[edit] Ukrainian
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[edit] Upper Sorbian
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[edit] Celtic
[edit] Irish
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[edit] Welsh
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[edit] Baltic
[edit] Lithuanian
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[edit] Indic
[edit] Bengali
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[edit] Hindi
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[edit] Urdu
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[edit] Dravidian
[edit] Malayalam
സ്വര്ഗ്ഗസ്ഥനായ ഞങ്ങളുടെ പിതാവേ, അങ്ങയുടെ നാമം പൂജിതമാകണമേ, അങ്ങയുടെ രാജ്യം വരേണമേ, അങ്ങയുടെ തിരുമനസ്സു, സ്വര്ഗ്ഗത്തിലെ പോലെ ഭൂമിയിലുമാകണമേ, അന്നന്നു വേണ്ട ആഹാരം ഇന്നു ഞങ്ങള്ക്കു തരേണമേ, ഞങ്ങളോടു തെറ്റു ചെയ്തവരോടു ഞങ്ങള് ക്ഷമിച്ചതു പോലെ ഞങ്ങളുടെ തെറ്റുകള് ഞങ്ങളോടും ക്ഷമിക്കേണമേ, ഞങ്ങളെ പ്രലോഭനത്തില് ഉള്പ്പെടുത്തരുതേ, തിന്മയില് നിന്നും ഞങ്ങളെ കാത്തുരക്ഷിക്കണമേ, [എന്തുകൊണ്ടെന്നാല് രാജ്യം, ശക്തി, മഹത്വം അങ്ങയുടേതാകുന്നു,] ആമേന് |
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--Antony 11:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Uralic
[edit] Estonian
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[edit] Finnish
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[edit] Hungarian
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[edit] Võro (South Estonian)
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[edit] Chinese
[edit] Chinese
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[edit] Taiwanese
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[edit] Malayo-Polynesian
[edit] Indonesian
Protestant
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Catholic
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[edit] Tagalog
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[edit] Semitic
[edit] Maltese
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[edit] Aramaic
Galilea-Arameic
Written in English phonetic spelling. The letters é and ó are pronounced like long sounds (ay and ow), A is pronounced as AH and CH is pronounced like a Spanish J. |
Syrian-Arameic
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[edit] Hebrew
From Delitzsch New Testament Translation
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[edit] Armenian
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[edit] Georgian
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[edit] Azeri
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[edit] Udi
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[edit] Korean
Protestant
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Catholic
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English
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[edit] Japanese
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[edit] Auxiliary languages
[edit] Esperanto
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[edit] Interlingua
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[edit] Quenya
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