
The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9)
Baatonum (Bariba)
- N deema yellu handunia kpuro sɔɔ, barum tema ba ra gere mam mam.
- Ma ba seewa ba doona saa sɔ̃ɔ yari yerun di ba batuma deema Sinɛan temɔ ma ba sin yeru kua mi.
- Yera ba geruna ba nɛɛ, too, i de su biriki mura su ye wɔ̃ yu gbera. Ma ba ka biriki ye bana kua yèn sɔ̃ ba ǹ kpenu mɔ. Ma ba kɔntaa kua ben simaa.
- Ba kpam nɛɛ, i de su wuu swĩi kpa su gidambisa bani yèn wii kpiira koo wɔllu girari, kpa su yĩsiru yari kpa su ku yarina handunia kpuro sɔɔ.
- Yera Yinni Gusunɔ u sarama u ka wuu ge ka gidambisa ye mɛɛri ye tɔmba banimɔ mi.
- Ma u nɛɛ, be wee, ba sãa bwese teeru ba maa barum tem gerumɔ ma ba bwisika bu yeni ko. Saa tɛ̃n di gãanu kun bu yinarimɔ bu ka ko ye ba bwisika kpuro.
- Yen sɔ̃, kon sara n da n ben barum burisina kpa bu ku maa nɔɔsina.
- Yera Yinni Gusunɔ u bu yarinasia n toma min di, ba wuu gen bana deri ba da ba pusa tem kpuro sɔɔ.
- Yen sɔ̃na ba wuu ge soka Babɛli, domi miya Yinni Gusunɔ u barum burisina. Min diya u maa tɔmbu kpuro yarinasia ba pusa handunia kpuro sɔɔ.
Source: The Bible in Bariba Language. Bible Society of Benin, 1996.
Contributed by Wolfgang Kuhl
Bariba is a member of the Gur branch of Niger-Congo languages
spoken in Benin and Nigeria by about 560,000 people.
More information about Bariba
http://www.ethnologue.org/language/bba
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bariba_language
Tower of Babel in Gur languages
Bariba,
Frafra,
Hanga,
Konkomba,
Lukpa,
Mampruli,
Moba,
Mossi,
Tammari,
Tampulma,
Wali
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