The Universal Translator Assistant Project Bible

The Klingon Language Version of the World English Bible

using the technology of today to bring the theories of yesterday to the languages of tomorrow

(note: passages should be in the form: BOOK Chapter [Verse [End-verse] ] )

WHY a Klingon Bible? What is the Klingon Language Version? (pdf brochure)

NEW: KLV as a user module of SwordSearcher!

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I heard someone is translating the Bible into Klingon - Is that you?

The short answer is no.

The slightly longer answer is not exactly...:

As part of the UTA project, I have created the Klingon Language Version (not a translation) of the World English Bible
The KLV is available online here, and as a module of the Sword Project
and as a user module of SwordSearcher
The KLV is available for the Berean BerBible program (click here for screenshots). (Just run this WEB + KLV installer http://berbible.sourceforge.net/download/BbKlvInstall.exe)
The Klingon Language Institute is working on a serious translation.
I have been involved in the KLI effort - here is some of my work, Psalm 117 and other things)

I realize, on some level that boils down to a yes, so, okay, I have produced a Bible translation using Klingon.

Read below ( Theory Behind the UTA ) and you'll learn that working with the WEB translation of the Bible (http://www.ebible.org/bible/WEB/webfaq.htm ) got me interested in doing mock translations into various Science Fiction languages.

The UTA project uses a pretty simpleminded translation process - eventually I do intend to use the work I've done on the Universal Translator Assistant tool for doing translations. However, the UTA tool in its current form is more for demonstration than translations. It is useful for for entertainment value, not linguistic purity. The translations it generates resemble a pidgin Klingon; a Klingon vocabulary mixed with English grammar. It would not be surprising (if there REALLY were Klingons) for such a dialect to exist in an environment where there was lively human-Klingon commerce.

Since the translation table used is rigid (one English word to one Klingon word) there are often laughable confusions. For example "lie" is currently translated as "nep," to tell a falsehood. This works for Psalm 119:69 "The proud have smeared a lie upon me. ..." But it is wrong in Psalm 23:2 -"he makes me lie down in green pastures"). Going by probabilities, this may change soon - looks like "to lie down" is the more likely meaning in the WEB translation.

The Klingon Language Version is NOW available as a module for the Sword Project open Bible platform: Click Here to download. See the Crosswire Bible Society's Sword Project to learn how to use this together with many serious Biblical tools.

For screen shots of the KLV in the Sword Project, click here.

NEW!! KLV for the BerBible!! I've created a KLV module for use with Berean Bible http://berbible.sourceforge.net

To use, install any version of BerBible, then unzip this file in the BerBible directory.

Click here for screen shots of KLV in BerBible.

As a service of the UTA project, I am providing lookup for the Klingon Language Version (KLV), WEB, KJV, Vulgate (Latin) and Douay Bible translations. In addition, you may "translate" texts into Klingon, Vulcan, Bajoran, Romulan and Esperanto:

(note: passages should be in the form: BOOK Chapter [Verse [End-verse] ] )

Klingon/English Lexicon used

note: Douay book titles are different in some cases. Eg Isaias for Isaiah, Jonas for Jonah.

Translate WEB version into Klingon, Romulan, Vulcan or Esperanto

(note: passage should be in the form: BOOK Chapter [Verse [End-verse] ] - )

Bible Software

A while back, I acquired a machine-readable copy of the WEB Bible translation (http://www.ebible.org/bible/WEB/webfaq.htm ) and was doing a number of text processing things with it. Here are some programs to use if you'd like to use the WEB Bible (Douay or King James, now):

ftp://members.aol.com/JPKlingon/scroll.zip - Visual Basic for Win 3.1 or Win9x WEB ONLY
ftp://members.aol.com/JPKlingon/webship.zip - command mode for Win9x/NT machines ; includes source and executables for reading WEB, KJV, Douay and Vulgate.
ftp://members.aol.com/joeland54/webship.zip - command mode for DOS machines WEB and KJV ONLY
You'll need a KJV or WEB (or both) file for this software. Move the file into the directory from which you run WEBible or KJBible. Unzip it and type "WEBible SPLIT", or "KJBible SPLIT". This generates the web.dir or kjv.dir directory with the needed Biblical files
- http://www.ebible.org/bible/web/webgbf.zip - download the GBF format of the WEB translation here
- http://www.ebible.org/bible/kjv/kjvgbf.zip - download the GBF format of the KJV translation here
- http://www.geocities.com/mrklingon/drv.zip - GBF format of the Douay translation - already split. Unzip it in the directory you run drbible.exe in.
- http://www.geocities.com/mrklingon/bible/vul.zip - GBF format of the Vulgate - already split. Unzip it in the directory you run latbible.exe in.

new!A Latin version of the book of the prophet Joel! This links to a parsing program at Notre Dame.

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KLV Update history:

I'll try to note revision history here as things are done to the KLV

2/22/2005 - large vocabulary update
3/22/2005 - tI' yotlh -> tI yotlh
3/22/2005 - live -> yIn
3/27/2005 - added possessives as root word; i.e. name's becomes name (pong) added some vocabulary
5/19/2005 - corrected "chutghachmey" to "chut" for law. (a error in my Klingon dictionary software led to "chut" being tagged as a verb, so I nominalized it to chutghach and made it a plural. all unnecessary since "chut was a noun already: "law").
5/23 - "meditated", "ja''eghqa'ta'" "report to oneself again," from Hebrew "hagah" to murmur, talk to oneself
"meditated", "ja''eghqa'ta'" "report to oneself again"
```
       "meditates", "ja''eghqa'taH"
       "meditation", "ja''eghqa'ghach"
```

6/5 - "prosper", "chep"

       "prospers", "cheptaH"
       "prospered", "chepta'"
       "prosperity", "mIp"
       "prosperous", "mIp"

- 6/11 - "chaff", "yub"
- 6/25 - "ease", "leSchu'"
```
       "perish", "chIlqu'"
```

- 6/26 -"shout", "jach"

            "shouting", "jachtaH"
            "shouts", "jach"
            "shouted", "jachta'"
            "lands", "puHmey"
            "gladness", "tIvtaHghach"
            "pasture", "tI yotlh"
            "loving", "muSHa'taH"
            "kindness", "pung"
            "endure", "SIQ"
            "endures", "SIQtaH"
            "faithfulness", "voqtaHghach"
            "generations", "DISmey"

7/03 "your", "lIj" <-correct spelling

7/05

    "sang", "bomta'"
            "sing", "bom"
            "sings", "bom"
            "singing", "bomtaH"

12/8

       "ceasing", "mevtaH"
            "ceased", "mevta'"

12/12

"impossible", "DuHHa'" 
            "possible", "DuH"

12/15

"preserve", "pol"
        "preserved", "polta'"
        "preserves", "poltaH"

1/14/2006

        "saint", "le' ghot"
        "saints", "le' ghotpu'"

02/17

	 "move", "vIH"
	 "moved", "vIHta'"
	 "moves", "vIHtaH"
	 "moving", "vIHtaH"
	 "remove", "teq"
	 "removed", "teqta'"
	 "removing", "teqtaH"
	 "removes", "teqtaH"

02/23

	 "glad", "Quchqu'"
	 "glad", "Quchqu'taHghach"
	 "bodies", "porghmey"
	 "body", "porgh"
	 "tongue", "jat"
	 "tongues", "jatmey"

04/19

         "tens", "wa'maHmey"
         "thousands", "SaDmey"

04/30

	"bone", "Hom"
	"tooth", "Ho'"
	"teeth", "Ho'Du'"

05/17

        "secretly", "peghDaq"
        "secrets", "peghmey"

06/16

	"dishonor", "quvHa'"
	"dishonored", "quvHa'ta'"
	"dishonors", "quvHa'taH"

06/30

	"apart", "mob"  corrected "moB" to "mob"

09/13
```
	"friend", "jup"
	"friends", "juppu'"
```

10/15

    "finger", "nItlh"
	"fingers", "nItlhDu'"
	"stars", "Hovmey"

11/04

    "hands", "ghopDu'" (corrected from error "ghopmey")

01/05/2007

    corrected mouth, mouths (both were mapped to mouths:nujDu'.)
     "mouth", "nuj"
     "mouths", "nujDu'"

01/24

    "revive", "yInmoHqa'"
    "revives", "yInmoHqa'taH"
    "revived", "yInmoHqa'ta'"
    "reviving", "yInmoHqa'taH"

02/10

    "concern", "SaH"
    "concerned", "SaHpu'"
    "concerning", "SaHtaH"
    "concerning", "SaHtaH"
    "concerns", "SaHta'"
    "fulfill", "rIn"
    "fulfilling", "rIntaH"
    "fulfills", "rInta'"
    "fulfilled", "rInpu'"


05/15
	corrected spelling of bIQ'a'

06/30
	"hate, "muS"
	"hating", "muStaH"
	"hated", "muSta'"


08/19
 "keeps", "poltaH"

11/15
 "'a", "though" (correction)

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The Klingon Language Version of the World English Bible

The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author.The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by the University of Minnesota.

The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author.
The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by the University of Minnesota.