A Collection of Texts in Tsash

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)

Ngos shik jautz fafet nauneng tañ jautz shube hongiñ tyeke kol wos tzegise kol. Ngos changaid hug nu jautz lotye, wos ngos tyel hug kiñ fawege bigiñ tzag kiñ fưgơ, setyoñ ngos mubing hug tzoch. Ngos tzid hug fetyaibet baid tash kưtz kes chal shun wos fetyaibet baid tash num kes chal shun gifil. Ngos shik hug fetyaibe jelus ñige, wos ngos shik hug hunơchơ jelus dibise.

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

Lefitz tyeng baid fafet haitzeng. Ngos ñishin jaume wos tyaife hug tyuñ jautz tyeket. Ngos tzajuf hug tafadet wos deñet tyuñ jautz tzaibet. Kak ngos chumưty jautz tzashe, tzen gaig wid baid tyuñ jautz tyeke, tzag kiñ tinge tautyeng. Ngos tyowoty bin hong wos shatzif tzag kiñ namaime jơkưñ. Ngos tyidan tyeng baid jautz tyeke, ngos wofid bin.

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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