A Collection of Texts in Tak

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)

Dañik sed qooqurr qaud laaneq gijeq dirr tekh hogkoq rtaaq kin sukhausoq rtaaq. Gokhauduk sed hud tejeq taiñeq rtiig, kin rrotuk sed hud rtekhageq tiq huud tejeq gkardeq huud tekh, rrardat narraardik sed hud rdot. Rdekik sed hud rrutujurr gkauquk kheñ hod kin rrutujurr gekhik kheñ ñiqel hod. Dañik sed hud rrutujoq rtateq qegiis, kin dañik sed hud ñarriteq ñilijeq qegiis.

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

Lunauluk kerr hod qooqurr qirr. Rdaluquk sed khedeq kin rdiiqeq hogkurr hud. Hatakhik sed hud gkaurdurr hogkojurrikh kin dugurrikh. Dog rtartedik sed ñekhik rtakeq hogkoq hod tejeq sañeq rrañ huud tekh. Lakhoquk sed kheel dirr kin toñuuq tejeq ñañateq hes huud tekh. Rdarriinik sed kerr hogkoq hod, khañunuk sed kheel.

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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