Sulekhï

reï zhelb kel beïbl
(the story of Babel)

1 geb reï golth segelï a leï bamog lothï yel leï hoïng kolï.
(Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.)

2 geb zul threï ïlo govu kathï, geb skuvravu leï shet fel shinar, yel blugyavu mesharï.
(As the men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.)

3 geb hoïvavu bel thleï inqyeno-bin, "stil mukavu thleï akhuro yel stil vekhavu yamï ba."
(They said to each other, "Let's make bricks and bake them well.")

4 krel geb hoïvavu, "stil bahïvu leï vizhul mel threï inqyeno-nin, sel leï lïrzh zil shrilu bel reï zhestïyan. zil mob ïsavu threï inqyeno-nin, yel hab mavu kalïshe rel threï tergo."
(Then they said, "Let's build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches toward Heaven, so we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the Earth.")

5 kal geb agerah oru ïltï mel zhu reï vizhul yel reï lïrzh, vïr mavu bahe suel threï ïlo.
(But God came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.)

6 yel geb agerah hoïvu, "ob zhavauvu rïzh suel hoïvh kel leï bamog lothï, krel mob zoth zhe suel ba tazhu."
(And God said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan cannot be done.")

7 "stil maravu ïltï, yel gelyavu reï bamog-bin, shel hab razhdavu threï inqyeno-bin.
("Let's go down and confuse their language so that they will not understand each other.")

8 geb shel agerah kalïshu ba rel threï tergo, yel threï ïlo geb khulgorvu reï vizhul-bin.
(So God scattered them all over the Earth, and they abandoned the city.)

9 rïzh mu nem ïsu beïbl - mel geb agerah gelyu mesharï reï bamog golthï, yel geb agerah kalïshu ba rel threï tergo.
(Which is why it is called Babel - because there God confused the language of the whole world. From there God scattered them over the face of the Earth.)

This is the story of Babel in Sulekhï, my first artificial language. To the Sulekhï (I'm creating a culture to accompany the tongue, not vice versa), God (or Agerah, as they call Him) is not one entity, but the supernatural as a whole. In other words, they don't view God as an individual but as an assembly of everything. Thus, God has no gender in Sulekhï (where Earthers consider God male) and is referred to in the third person without gender specification. (However, that certainly does not make God an it!)

agerah mu sel gyï eteï (God is with you all.)

David Dynes
cZaR@Mail.USA.com
https://cZaR16.homepage.com

Jeffrey.Henning.com

Free Web Surveys

This Scattered Tongues site belongs to Jeffrey Henning.
Next Page | Skip It | Next 5 | Prev | Random
Want to join? Stop by HQ, then!