Patimatli ali Alice tu Vãsilia ti Ciudii
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Aromanian

By Lewis Carroll, translated into Aromanian by Mariana Bara

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“Cata nclo,” dzãsi Cãtusha sh featsi cu ndreptulu cicioru deanvãrliga, “bãneadzã unu Capelaru: iara cata ncoa,” featsi cu alantu cicioru, “bãneazã unu Ljepuru di Martsu. Du-ti vizita iu vrei: doilji suntu mintits di minti.”		“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw around, “lives a Hatter: and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.”
“Ama io nu voiu s’negu la inshi mintits,” bãgã oarã Alice.		“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, nu pots altã turlii,” dzãsi Cãtusha: “tuts himu mintits di minti aua. Io hiu zurlã. Tini hii zurlã.”		“Oh, you ca’n’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“Di iu shtii cã hiu zurlã?” dzãsi Alice.		“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“Prindi s’hii,” dzãsi Cãtusha, “altã soie nu-ari s’yineai aua.”		“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn't have come here.”
Cumu s’nu ti hãrseascã aestã carti tsi ari hãrsitã ahãntea bãrni di njits, tu tutã dunjaua!		How can anyone not enjoy this book, which has been a pleasure to so many generations of children the world over?
Tora u avemu ti prota oarã tu limba armãneascã. Limba nã easti arhundã sh axi ti apridutseri, ti atsea va s’aflats aua, tu patimatli ali Alice, unã pirifanã dizvãrteari, unã bunã furnjii ti anvitsari, ama sh ti adutseari aminti zboarã di zãmani.		Now for the first time we have Alice in the Aromanian language. Aromanian, also known as Macedo-Romanian or Vlach, is an Eastern Romance language which shares many features with modern Romanian, though while Romanian has been influenced by the Slavic languages, Aromanian has been more influenced by Greek. Our language is rich and fit for translation, and readers of Aromanian will find here, in Alice’s adventures, a good opportunity for learning and recalling old words.
Alice, unã fiticã di shapti anj, cunoashti psãnu lumea di anvãrliga sh ma multu ditu muabetsli fapti cu sotslji ditu carti: unu ljepuru, una cãtushi icã matsã, una broascã cu casã. Ea lj tinjiseashti, lã azburashti prãxitã, fronimã, mintimenã.		Alice, a little seven-year-old girl, has an imperfect know­ledge of the surrounding world, and she augments and improves it through the dialogues she has with her friends in the book: a rabbit, a cat, a tortoise. She shows respect to them, speaks politely – she is well educated and on her way to becoming wise.
Autorlu easti genialu Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), tsi ari anvitsatã Oxford, deapoa fu profesoru Oxford di matematicã sh di logicã, unlu di atselji di prota cãdrãgeadz di portreti tu Europã, nica ditu 1856. Ari alãsatã tsintsi albumi di caduri sh multi cãrtsã. Alice tu Vãsilia ti Ciudii easti naima cunuscuta.		The author was the genius Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898). He studied at Oxford, afterwards lecturing in mathematics and logic there. He was one of the early portrait photographers in Europe, beginning in 1856. He left us five albums of photos and many books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland being the best-known.
Editsia di tora fu andreaptã ti yiurtia, tu 2015, a 150-loru anj di la prota tipuseari.		The present edition was prepared for the 2015 celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first publication of the book.
Hãristusescu aua a lingvistului Michael Everson ti agiutorlu tsi nj deadi, cã avu angãtanu textulu sh featsi copusu s’akicãseascã limba armãneascã.		I thank here to the linguist and publisher Michael Everson for his precious help, for his care for the text, and for his effort to understand the Aromanian language.
Hãristusescu ditu inimã ali dadi, Elena Stere, ti multili ndriptãri sh urnimii ti limba armãneascã tsi u ngrãpsescu.		I thank also from my heart to my mother, Elena Stere, for her corrections and counsel in the Aromanian language I am writing.
—Mariana Bara Bucureshti 2015		—Mariana Bara Bucharest 2015