A Collection of Texts in Tes

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)

Mygöf ṭʉs jʉf ṇun lʉm pyl was jʉf zaṇ ṣan ñaf doṣ höṇ bböwyṇ doṣ. Todifof ṭʉs si fyn chʉṣ jʉl ğoṇ, höṇ tḥichof ṭʉs si fathʉ zʉṣ pyl chʉṣ ṭen, ğasiṇ maṇuẓof ṭʉs si ẓem. Tḥegof ṭʉs si kawynṇʉtḥom gof jʉṣ höṇ kawyn nʉdḍom gof jʉṣ ṭanas. Mygöf ṭʉs si kawyn ḍethös thos, höṇ mygöf ṭʉs si gkino ḍethös chʉzhef.

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

Ṭoḍebbof ṇan jʉṣ ṇun ly. Ğadḍijof ṭʉs ṭu höṇ dʉ jʉl ñaf si. Dḍʉṣofof ṭʉs si jʉl tif tḥabam höṇ faf. Ṇʉṣ chogegkof ṭʉs jʉf ṭeṣ, bbyṣ khathof jʉl ñaf jʉṣ, pyl chʉṣ zes bun. Thakhabof ṭʉs tḥys ṣan höṇ hanöl pyl chʉṣ zhagken nʉs. Shizuddof ṭʉs ṇan jʉl ñaf jʉṣ, vithökhöf ṭʉs tḥys.

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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