A Collection of Texts in Ushamu


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The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9)

Hoğu si pa tu lauthi hiwi kagaru pi lauthi baka kadani kufula kaɟutzu du tu kaiñatha du. Cheku si pa ki nu lauzi kijura kezagu, tu naikhu si pa ki tzanu kiñufa pi kaizhitza kezagu, d͡zi jauthu si pa ki ja. Difu si pa ki tyelakilu ha tu tu kelaki tyubu ha fau. Hoğu si pa ki kelaki Bai keduɟa, tu hoğu si pa ki kifatzu Bai kangiki.

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

Tju nadu pa ha tu rokhi kagaru. Tetyu si pa kujuna tu kautatzi ki tu laufu kaɟutzu. Ğaiku si pa ki tu tu katjanga tu tu kañaga tu laufu kekhuki. Hu witju si pa ha laufu kaɟutzu tyiru pa lauzi kushamu pi nozha kağuñu kezagu. Tobu si pa d͡za baka tu ğaisu pi tjiku kaungibi kezagu. [??2: khkhkh_verb]u pa. [??2: khkhkh_verb]u pa. [??2: khkhkh_verb]u pa. [??2: khkhkh_verb]u pa. [??2: khkhkh_verb]u pa. [??2: khkhkh_verb]u pa? Tisu pa tu kokhatha keyusa, kaudu pa ki ketzathu, [??2: khkhkh_verb]u pa. Tju yudu si pa ha laufu kaɟutzu, muku si pa d͡za.

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. Before that moment, our ancestors lived in a shadow-world. Then God pressed one button, and words and meanings arrived. The people awoke, and speech filled their mouths like breath for the first time. Where there had been nothing, there were now mountains, rivers and names for everything. Some outsiders claim that our language was not made by God at all, but by a machine. But how could that be? Machines can grind wheat and count money, but they cannot create mountains or ignite the sun. Our language did not evolve; it was created.

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