Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin/Filichdiș

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Learăgüsiș forms are extremely marked: they're considered archaic and poetic at best, and deliberately "overusing" them is used for evoking certain Ăn Yidiș literary works, or e.g. in neopagan/new-religious-movement material. These forms, including case forms and synthetic verb forms, are best preserved in Munster Irish, but in Ăn Yidiș they were almost completely lost by Proto-Ăn Yidiș times. Ăn Yidiș writers during the Learăgüs 'Awakening' period recreated these forms by cognatizing older Irish or Munster Irish forms.

The Yăhuaș translation of the Tanakh (which was made post-Learăgüs), in a somewhat controversial move, uses Learăgüsiș for the poetic passages that use archaic/archaizing language in Biblical Hebrew (such as Ha'azinu and the Song of the Sea). The translation made the Learăgüsiș register somewhat less marked (and more like a standard suite of archaisms) for the speakers that came after it, however.

Samples (Translations)

From "The Call of Cthulhu"

These Great Old Ones, Castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. They had shape—for did not this star-fashioned image prove it?—but that shape was not made of matter. When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live. But although They no longer lived, They would never really die. They all lay in stone houses in Their great city of R’lyeh, preserved by the spells of mighty Cthulhu for a glorious resurrection when the stars and the earth might once more be ready for Them. But at that time some force from outside must serve to liberate Their bodies. The spells that preserved Them intact likewise prevented Them from making an initial move, and They could only lie awake in the dark and think whilst uncounted millions of years rolled by. They knew all that was occurring in the universe, but Their mode of speech was transmitted thought. Even now They talked in Their tombs. When, after infinities of chaos, the first men came, the Great Old Ones spoke to the sensitive among them by moulding their dreams; for only thus could Their language reach the fleshly minds of mammals.

From the Song of the Sea (Yăhuaș)

אָשִׁ֤ירָה לַּֽיהֹוָה֙ כִּֽי־גָאֹ֣ה גָּאָ֔ה
ס֥וּס וְרֹֽכְב֖וֹ רָמָ֥ה בַיָּֽם:

כּאַנףא ט'השם, מאר טא-בֿוֹאי שע קוֹ קל'וֹר'בֿאר!
טא-כאח שע סזעך אינש אם מיר' איאט, עך אקאס א-°מאַראכּאך.

Canfă d'Ășéym, măr dă-bhuay șe gu głuřvăr!
Dă-chath șe szech dăm mîř îd, ech ăgăs ă-mharăcăch.

עָזִּ֤י וְזִמְרָת֙ יָ֔הּ
וַֽיְהִי־לִ֖י לִֽישׁוּעָ֑ה

שע מא-נערתּ איס מא-כוֹףט ע השם!
טא-בֿי שע אינא °סאיראג טוֹם!

Șe mă-nert îs mă-chufd e Ășéym!
Dă-bhi șe înă shăyrăgh dum!