A Collection of Texts in Osaka

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)

Qe huqe tutu hin sensin saki kan kantun kasa kon tin koqususa kon. Sinqunsin tutu ti kasa kanqinsantin, qe kita tutu ti qeha kankinkanhun qitu kusa, tuse hihaqi tutu ti ko. Qunsen tutu ti son kisu sonhinkintuntan qati takuki tin son kisu quka qati sonhinkintun takuki siteta. Huqe tutu ti konhinkintun kahiqa kenhan, tin huqe tutu ti kenqansintin kahiqa kantankinsun.

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

Qe kinqinhan qasun son su sensin. Tankonkun tutu kankin tin kunkun sasa ti. Hankinsun tutu ti situ satakihi tin suntin. Qe santantun tutu kunqon qati konsankan kasa son qitu konsin kequti. Qe qikiti tutu hu kan tin kinsinkin qitu hantun kinkuntantin. Sakequ tusin kasa son, hakita tutu hu.

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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