A Collection of Texts in Ghoy

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)

څيك ݯژ ثيچ ڭچخد زبور خيد بيسد زش چن حوف زش ثنيت۔ لروا ݯژ شپب ڃوف ژخد، حوف دخ ݯژ شپب غل ڃڅ شديڅ اج كغل ژبو، يخف ودز ݯژ شپب مز۔ چوس ݯژ شپب كش ژسپيپپ ار سكگس حوف كش ليپ ار ژسپيپخ سكگس گخڭ۔ څيك ݯژ شپب ژسپيپ لنن نغ، حوف څيك ݯژ شپب مزو لنن تخگ۔

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

جفوڃ اد كش جپ ڭچخ۔ مثڭ ݯژ سپا حوف اڭ چنخد ڃو شپب۔ څخر ݯژ شپب ثيدخد ڃو غشاخ حوف حيخ۔ مر ستغيو ݯژ غيد، بڭ گوغ چند حݯ، اج كغل خڭ سكچ۔ مچر ݯژ حو خيد حوف ݯستوا اج كغل پث غزز۔ چزڭ ݯژ اد چند حݯ، جبت ݯژ حو۔

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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