A Collection of Texts in Adod

What follows is a collection of texts intended to illustrate the language in more natural and extended use than the glossed examples found in the grammar.

The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9)

Hohól gig ḍóded lais niity ḍólóf ligk, ngod ṇiihól, ngow tyæhól, tyeeng lód wóṇ tyeeng labuṇuw. Mesæhól gig daaw ṇuuṇ ḍódóf song, wóṇ hauhól gig daaw lichewóṣ gkas sik, ngod c̣iihól, saṣaṭ bamauhól gig daaw shid. Tuhól gig daaw ṭóów guuṣól ṣægónang weleṣ wóṇ ṭóów saṣól ṣægónang weleṣ ṭabe. Hohól gig daaw lægónang nudæsh san, wóṇ hohól gig daaw leetinung nudæsh sebaching.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

A Creation Myth

Kikehij ṭóów lais, ngow gkóhól. C̣óñihól gig liṣ wóṇ lew daaw ḍógked lód. Kasehól gig daaw læṭiduf wóṇ laan ḍógked lææk. Kæn nahiihól gig ḍógkóf laḍód, ngod ḍóóhól ṭóów ḍógkóf lód, gkas laamak, ngod baihól. Ṇewehól gig mid, ngod ṇiihól, wóṇ, ngod tóṇeehól, gkas laasheṇaṣ, ngod fahól. Chubææhij gig ṭóów ḍógkóf lód, betyaihól gig mid.

We are not like other people. Their languages were shaped by struggle and time. They copied the sounds of beasts and birds, and they learned to speak like that. But our language arose in a different way. It was born whole and perfect in a single breath. Our language did not evolve; it was created.

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