A Collection of Texts in Chash

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)

Rduñ hirt mengerd fud gwoch saisherd firt ñef nashiqu shud ñef ñaniñiqu. Ñaquiigk hirt gquig rdigk rtarterd, shud ñi hirt gquig pungiigwiqu faumeñ fokof rdors gkijiqu fokof, ponaibb rrihors hirt gquig rdag. Rdort hirt gquig bbart marnij bbirs gquim gquihugwiqu shud bbart habij bbirs gquim gquihugwiqu singwog. Rduñ hirt gquig gquihugwiqu rsawub rneliqu, shud rduñ hirt gquig hudobiqu rsawub gkatujiqu.

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

Bohod dij bbart mengiqu faup. Negwe hirt gwigkiqu shud rrarsiqu gquig nasherd. Rtigab hirt gquig jebbaugkiqu shud rrafiqu gulerd. Ñauqu figkaa hirt ñiñ charserd bbart nasherd rdors daiwiqu fingwof fohof. Kadirt hirt gquig firt shud finarsert rdors tedoquiqu fiikugqu fokof. Filigk hirt dij bbart nasherd, rriñegqu hirt gquig.

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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