A Collection of Texts in Chuboki

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)

Jimu mæ bau feela ja wau bau dudi dai maugi gó le ditidæja gó. Jinitimu kii ja bau dæna, le jmu kii fóó mówabæfa dógu dee fóó maubu, kæbæ fijuchamu kii we. Jmu kii duu mæ bæjajoga læ we jkæ bubó le duu mæ bæjajoga læ we jaukæ bubó leñæ. Jimu kii bæjajoga nojau mæna, le jimu kii mimaadabæ nojau mibotibi.

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

Ló jægóóbakæ duu mæ feela ji. Dodausmu mafo le miñi mæ bau maugi kii. Jagɔiñmu kii mæ bau muda mæ mæ mebuugófó le mæ kauni. Je dafaañmu bau mubóki, kæ ma jkæ bau maugi duu, dee kóó fubæfó jaaso. Jabichimu to dai le dónuli dee kóó manamusi demó. Ló jimatimu bau maugi duu, fanojmu to.

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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