A Collection of Texts in Kenicha

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)

Ni ti nana chachi chechi tu nucha niti chaki to to ke keche ti ke ninachate. Ti tanatichi nuta te nani kaki to, ni ti kicha nuta tinate kenichane tu nani teni, tika ti kukokuku nuta chu. Ti kucha nuta nona te te nachi konotaka ti nona te te kite konotaka nineke. Ti nana nuta konotaka nakuka kata, ti ti nana nuta nineticha nakuka chanuchachu.

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

Ni kanukoku na nona niche chechi. Ti chanichati kecha ti kono keche to nuta cha. Ti chakenane nuta kita to ninaneki ti chine cha. Ni ti tenekena kichi kenicha to keche to nona cha tu nani nechicha tichechi. Ni ti kutokanu nuta niti ti kakiteki tu nani tukata nechanike. Ti kakutunu na keche to nona cha, ti netaticha nuta.

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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