Help please! I'm new and need a starting point...

So I am in a DND campaign and wanna use Lang Belta just to have my character actually use another language for when he's, you know, speaking another language.

Not full sentences, just a few words.

I stand the problem of being completely unable to find any reference to what the Lang belta word for "Surface" is

Hello, I was wondering if you folk have some ideas for pirate dialogue that I could use. I am trying to create an RP character in the game, Elite: Dangerous, and I need some dialogue response options when attempting to take peoples hard earned credits in order to feed my starving children. I need several dialogue options that can be sent through in-game chat using macros for the different kind of scenarios that might unfold.

The typical loop that repeats itself with potential scenarios:

1. Identify someone in "supercruise" and pull them into normal space.
2. Initial hold up, where they will either:
   1. Comply with my demands and relinquish some of their loot
   2. Attempt to run
      1. They get away
      2. I prevent them from escape. Can either reassert my demands or attempt to destroy them for their insolence.
   3. Attempt to fight
      1. If I'm better than them at combat, either destroy them or give them a chance to survive if they comply
      2. If they are better then me, well it's either I have to now flee the scene or it's GG to them

Another thing that could happen is the entire loop is interrupted at any time by system security intervening.

One more thing to note is that they should probably not be in complete Lang Belta, unless they are phrases being said to myself, as the other player will likely not understand. So need some convincing sounding broken English where appropriate.

I do plan to start learning it myself, I just thought this could be interesting and give me motivation to learn.

I wanted to post this everywhere I could, as the momentum is not exactly fast on this one. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thenacellecompany/the-expanse-collectable-action-figures

Hey all!

I want to translate the sentence ‘This too shall pass’ to belter creole. So far I’ve gotten ‘Xidawang oso gonya pass’ out of a belter translator tool. However, I read that belter creole is a “zero-copula” language, meaning ‘shall’ probably wouldn’t be used. Any experts here who can make an educated guess? An alternative saying with similar meaning could also work potentially.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: chatGPT suggests: Dis too shalowda pass

"I used to say that I had a ship."

"Mi ta tili showxa mi ta tenye kapawu."

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Is this correct or is there a relative pronoun I can use?

Oye! This is my version of Lord's Prayer in lang Belta, i only used existing words, the words i could not find a direct translation i just borrowed from english ("Kingdom", "bread", "sin" and "as" but the correctness of those words in Lang Belta is speculative), "fatna" is derived from the existsing word "matna", "fogif" is a calque based on existing words "fo" and "gif". i Used "kuxaku", which means "space" for "heaven". The word "meyo" ("honor") is used (in verbal form) instead of "sacred /hallowed" This is my first post. I may have made some mistakes, if so, feel free to suggest and correct. Taki taki

Fatna milowda, to ere kuxaku
Milowda wanya imim du meyo nem to
Milowda wanya kingdom to wit milowda
Milowda wanya imim du wanya to
ere kuxaku unte erde
Milowda wanya to gif milowda bread milowda kowl diye
fogif milowda sin milowda
As milowda forgif sin kowmang
Unte na peroba milowda
Amash feri milowda fong peng

Long story short, I have been naming the Outside Kitties outside my house Belter words, and there's this really brave kitten, so I would like to know what Brave means, or some other alternative,

Taki!

A while ago, another post brought up the idea of creating an incubator for Lang Belta on Duolingo in order to make it easier to learn. But the idea didn't make it very far, and other users mentioned maybe an official guide to Lang Belta could someday take its place.

Since we still don't have either of them years later, are there any prospects of an official language guide or an online course sometime in the near future? And if not, would there be potential interest in starting an incubator for Lang Belta on Duolingo?

Wit comedi, showxa mi.

I stream on Twitch.tv, and I wanted a way to distinguish actual human viewers from mere bot accounts. So I am building a app I run locally that I have loaded in my right hand monitor when I stream. It includes a view of my stream on top (but only when live), Twitch chat on the left, and on the right the Botfinder that loads my current viewers and colour codes their names along with displaying some useful symbols.

I just finished rewatching The Expanse and decided to theme my application with a style inspired by the show, and then decided I would try to add some labels that are in Belta. I would like your suggestions and/or corrections on what I should use for each of the labels. I had to coin some of my own words mind you, but perhaps there are already existing terms I didn't find. Any help, criticism or reponse happily received :P

Screenshot

Labels: SEKÁNG REDZHULTA "Scan Results" FIT XITIM "Refresh Video" SHOWXA XITIM "Refresh Chat" SEKÁNG XITIM "Refresh Scan" NAX DE XITIIM "Last Refresh" TENSHAWALA "Viewers" ZAKOWALA "Moderators" BOTING "Bots"

Edit: Note the "LIVE" on the top is incorrect obviously. I just haven't put some code in place to change it back as soon as I am no longer live. This is still a WIP

Tensha: Da kapawu gonya go wit naterash ematim.

Attention: The ship will soon be on the float.

Our post asking the community’s opinion about the protest beginning tonight resulted in a resounding call to go dark for at least 48 hours. We’ll turn off our transponder and Epstein drive and make like a hole in the water space.

The Expanse Discord is the place to be to help decide when we should come back online. There will be widebeam announcements when we have a decision to make or something changed.

The Discord is also a good place for having the Expanse conversations we’ll be missing out here.

Given all the free time you’re suddenly about to gain, I can’t help recommending trying out some Lang Belta. We’ve got a section on Discord all about learning it, and the little Memrise course is a fun place to start. I hope to get to say oye to a few new people this week!

Or, if you end up starting a reread or a rewatch, it’ll be good to hear your thoughts.

If there’s anything you’d like to ask or say before we go dark, this is your moment. No untagged spoilers, please!

Oye!

Check this out! Just found a Memrise course for Belta Creole. It seems on-point from what I’ve seen. I’m still totally new to the language and I plan on learning it with hand gestures for sake of another form of communication.

Im gut, keyá?

http://www.memrise.com/course/1476694/

Thanks to photos taken at an exhibit by u/isonomist, we've got a shot of a nifty backpack.

It reads,

MEDIBELTA (This looks more like a company name than a word to me, but interested in discussing)

KIT FO FOWSH MEDI

BERA FO YUSH XÍXITIM

We're discussing over on discord, but here's what's up so far:

And this is interesting!

• We have a term for "first aid" now (this looks like a typo on fosh as in fosh wowk ["practice"]).
• kit ("kit") appears to be new
• I'm reading the second line as "Only for [immediate/emergency/etc?] use", which would indicate
  • yush ("use" [n.]) — new!
  • xíxitim — a new and fun construction! Reduplication of xi ("this" prefix) as an intensifier on xitim ("now") is super interesting. ?immediate and ?emergency came to mind, thoughts? u/kmactane and Frin on Discord note that it brings dédeya ("over there," Spanish allí/allá) to mind in terms of its construction.

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Here's a cropped (to avoid spoilers) panel showing our new "best friend":

A cropped panel from a comic book, showing the top of a speech bubble: \"Our felorawala on Ganymede ran some numbers. Right mix of organics, maybe we can…\"

According to the comics' author Andy Diggle (Twitter, 20-01-2023), it means botanist.

Yam seng!

I would love to know how to translate two things for the Paschal season...

1. The Paschal Greeting (which I know in Klingon and would love to know in Lang Belta too.)

How do you say, "Christ is risen!" "He's risen indeed!"

??

Also... 2) The Jesus Prayer.

How do you say, "Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner."

I've found "sinner", it's in the PDF cheat sheet, but there's nothing anywhere about God, Lord, Christ, or the rest that I've found. I did find one person translate Jesus as "Dzhesush." I'm not sure about that though or where they got it. I only find one reference using it.

Thanks!

I've been looking and for the life of me, I can't seem to find a word for Fly. I feel like this would be a pretty common verb in the Expanse so I am sure I am just missing it.

Title says all, i'm not quite sure how you'd translate that, i'm struggling with the word order I was thinking "bitnesh kopeng-ong" or maybe "bitnesh ong-kopeng"

Lame post, but I'm trying to find a way to day dream or ideation, aspiration, something like that.

Is there a word for that? Merry Xmas pampa

I’m trying to translate “the ending has not yet been written”. So far I have “da ent na ye finyish {written}”. My questions: how does the passive work? How is the verb “write” translated? Taki!

I've been having a lot of fun writing Belter-themed jams lately. Anyone here interested in writing some with me?

I'm down for any form of teamwork I think. Whether you want to write music, write lyrics, sing, or even just critique what I'm working on and help me with song direction.

Ke showxa, Beltalowda?

after finishing the Memrise Course, I have two questions (that come to mind - I bet there's more, but one post at a time, keyá?)

Imim/Imalowda: Why is it "Lik imim showxa..." and not "Lik imalowda showxa..." ?

Maliwala/Malilowda: Kids are obviously maliwala, but wouldn't malilowda make more sense as a composition?

Kowmang *da* setara *da* mali fo wamang: I get that, and I get that there's an exception for tightly coupled expressions like "Kepelésh *wa* imbobo ** rowm. I'm not at all sure how to handle possessions - "Xidawang Tumang *wa* Kopeng *?* mi" ?

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Oh, so it's three questions after all. I hope that's ok, too :) Thanks for any help in advance - it's greatly appreciated.

Not sure if this has been asked before but how would one say "is the new" as in "X is the new Y" "Orange is the new Black" etc.

Would it be "X im da Y nuva"?