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Dwemeris Translation Project

I am working on trying to translate the Dwemeris passage on the stone in Calcelmo's Tower. So far, I haven't gotten anywhere. I'm writing up a text file though, which is in the form of an essay written by one of my characters, who went through the College of Winterhold in Skyrim, so I'm using him for scholarly, linguistic essays in the world of Tamriel. In it, I offer up my own personal reconstruction of the sound system used by the Dwemer, although I haven't written out in the essay which sounds map to which orthographic characters. But it's mostly straight forward. What I plan to do, is use the assumption that the Dwemeris passage and the Falmer passage are the same, just written in different languages, and translate line by line, since we have a partial translation of the Falmer passage here on the UESP (not done by me). However, at the point I'm at, I will have to extract the texture for the stone to be able to get a good look at each line. I know the lines for the Dwemeris, thanks to IP Address 118.82.150.60 posting where each line ends in the Talk page for the Dwemer Alphabet. But until I get my hands on that texture, I won't know a thing about the Falmer, and if the lines don't match up well enough, there's a chance that this project will be scrapped.

Dwemeris Phonology

           Bilabial        Labiodental     Alveolar        Postalveolar    Palatal         Velar   Glottal
Plosive         b               t  d                                                            k  ɡ    ʔ       
Affricate                       θ               tʃ                              
Fricative       m               f       z                       x               
Nasal                           n                       ŋ               
Approximant                                     l                                       
Rhotic                          r                                       

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