A Collection of Texts in Bazh

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)

Hid faaɹ ngun kauthim chee waaɹ shik sil ngaad tzing tyirs ngaad shimaɹ. Wartid rzikh tziy waaɹ sirn, tyirs good rzikh woɹ yañ khurrord ɹuf woɹ raw, khufim hurrid rzikh tyoom. Kud rzikh rtin biwooj shipoochim rzizis tyirs rtin birdaaj shipoochim rzizis hajum. Hid rzikh shipooch fafaib ɹaw, tyirs hid rzikh tikakh fafaib fiyuug.

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

Rzangauj khirz rtin noz kauthim. Rtiwed sars tyirs rtaal faaɹ tzingim rzikh. Burdood rzikh faaɹ tanim rruzhomim tyirs shunim. Rrig rnirnaud waaɹ barz, keert soj waaɹ tzing rtin, ɹuf woɹ waul gerd. Chitzaad ruf shik tyirs ɹirrern ɹuf woɹ tzech bufaag. Nakhiid khirz waaɹ tzing rtin, ñibod ruf.

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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