Bahasan

BABELU Tecsto en te Lenguo Bahasan

1. En ate vacto, omne homaruo bolea unil lenguo, va omne populo poteia vedi omnan otrin.

2. Lacen cin c'idea, ke c'em renaes safarea Magro, lor efnea un qanje platno en te lando di Xinor, va lor sedielea tam.

3. Te renaes jedingea, "Nos vol facti briqos, va baeci lori bonim". Lor jaldin habea briqos cu usli c'em pietro, va lor poteia usli niento c'em mortro.

4. Lor jedingea, "Nos vol buini un xahiro sam, cun un toruno qanie acroxo vol aetenzi laexa oe C'elesdo. Nos vol facti un namo fro nosamos sam, va naem biani itromloraes tram te lando".

5. Jaldin Deuso venea doexa oe visdi te xahiro dan toruno ke te renaes esea buinoa.

6. Deuso dictea, "Aewa, populo opri c'em unil, va omne usli unil lenguo. Sidieno lor esi foa ise cinto. Jaldin, nulinto vol prifendi lori da foa pane ke lor plani cu fa!"

7. "Soim, lezu itri doexa dan fusdi lorie lenguo soim ke lor poti naem vedi c'ipril."

8. En ise vojo, te Adonae jisifea lori disin da tam, tram te lando. Omne opro stapea epim te xahiro.

9. Poslim, ate loco esea xiamea Babelu au "Fusdeo," causin cin esea ate loca qam Deuso fusdea lenguo, va isim jisifea renaes surim te surfac'io dit tiero.

Note: The above is a slightly modified version of "Project Bahasan" as it stood in 1991 -- a previously unpublished vocabulary project exploring the use of a world-wide vocabulary for an international auxiliary language. Some Bahasan words follow (with data on sources; + means "others as well"; / means "to some degree"). While the grammar here is rather incidental to the vocabulary aspect, note that many common nouns end in -o, persons in -ae, basic verbs in -i, past tense in -ea, adjectives in -e; derived adverbs in -im, prepositions in -n or -m, etc.

English	Bahasan
a	un Afrikaans/ Romance
across	tram Latinate
afterwards	poslim Russ +
all	omne TABLE
and	dan Indonesian/Malay
, and	va Turkish Vietnamese Uzbek Persian +15
is/are	esi IE (Indo-European)
as	c'em Russ
away	disin Remorphemization
Babel	Babelu (Ends in -u, common for proper nouns)
bake	baeci Swedish/ Indonesian/ +++
because	causin
become	biani Mandarin/
brick	briqo French +
build	buini Arabic/ Hebrew/ +10
but	lacen Arabic Uyghur Swahili Hindi +15
called	xiamea semi-a-priori (Ital. Port.)
came	venea Latinate
can	poti Latinate
city/town	xahiro Gujarati Turkish Hindi Uzbek +15
clay	niento Mandarin Chinese
confuse	fusdi "part a priori"
confusion	fusdeo noun from verb in -eo
could (modal)	poteia
decided	jedingea Generalized-Chinese
do	fa Latinate Tongan Samoan
down	doexa semi-a-priori
each-other	c'ipril semi-Latinate
earth	tiero Latinate
else	otrin TABLE
everyone	omnan TABLE
for	fro English
found	efnea a priori
from	da Italian, ++
go	itri semi-a-priori
God	Dueso IE/ Nepali Maya
have	habi Latinate, German
happen	c'idi "part a priori"
heaven	c'elesdo Latinate
here	sam TABLE word
human-beings	renaes Chinese/
humanity	homaruo Latinate ++
in	en Corsican Afrikaans Spanish Sranan/ + 20
it	cin Bantu/
journey(v.)	safari Swahili Arab Urdu + 20
land	lando Afrikaans German +10
language	lenguo Latinate +++
let's	lezu semi-a-priori
Lord	Adonae Hebrew/Greek
make	facti Latinate ++
mortar	mortro English Catalan ++
name(noun)	namo Burmese Japanese Indonesian Hindi +20
not	naem Hungarian + IE
nothing	nulinto TABLE
of	di Achenese, Latinate ++
on	epim semi-a-priori, Greek
one	unil semi-a-priori, Latinate
or	au Arabic Swahili +
other	otre Spanish TABLE word
ourselves	nosamos Latinate
over	surim Latinate
people	populo Latinate Bislama ++
place	loco Latinate +
plain	platno semi-a-priori
plan	plano Latinate Azeri Swazi Bicol Russ +++
prevent	prifendi Remorphemized
reach	aetenzi Remorphemized
say	dicti Latinate
scattered	jisifea a priori
see	visdi IE
settled	sedielea IE
Shinar	Xinor (-or is a possible proper noun ending)
so	soim English// Japanese//
soon	jaldin Gujarati Hindi + Assyrian/ +
speak	boli Hindi Marathi Bengali +10
stone	pietro Greek Romanian Italian Hindi/ Urdu/ +
stopped	stapea English
surface	surfac'io Latinate ++
text	tecsto Afrikaans Finnish Kazak+ 20
that (conj.)	ke Latinate
that (dem.)	ate IE, TABLE word
the	te Tahitian Zoque Maori + IE/
their	lorie Turk/ +
them	lori Turk/ +
there	tam Assyrian Polish Russian Gujarati++
they	lor Turkish Italian, +
thing	cinto Rwandan, Nyanja, other Bantu+
this	ise TABLE
thus	isim TABLE
time	vacta Azeri Bosnian Arabic/ Indo. Swahili Turk+
to (infinitive marker)	cu Swahili +other Bantu
to (toward)	oe a priori
today	sidieno Remorphemization
top	acroxo Remorphemization
tower	toruno Dutch Finnish Hungarian Romanian ++
understand	vedi Sanskrit +
up	laexa a priori
use	usli Latinate
wanderers	itromloros Remorphemization
was	esea IE
way	vojo semi-Latinate
we	nos IE
well	laebono a priori
west	magro Arab/ Swahili/ +
what	qe Nepali Nkore-Kiga +15 IE/
whatever	pane Greek/
where	qam TABLE
whose	qanie TABLE
wide	qanje Chinese// Spanish//
will (modal)	vol Latinate, Engl.
with	cun Latinate
work(noun)	opro Latinate
yes	aewa Egyptian Arabic, Amharic +

Submitted by: Leo J. Moser, acadon@inreach.com Leo@Acadon.com

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