The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9)
Gumawana
Yaubada da poyapoya niyadi ikinigonigo tetelina
- E mainao tomota liliudi da poyapoya niyadi tayamo be nakae idi bóbwara tayamo.
- E tutayana tomota situliya sina bomatu dadavina, dúmiya gagaina Sinari goi sibabane. Tuwo amoko goi silokasa.
- Silokasa, sidigo kadi,
‘Tawou, vaega taodugudi paaevaidi be kalabadaabadaidi. Ikavava, tagabudi sikasa.’
Tuwo moitamo nakae siguinuwe. Kidi amo dadavayana goi gurewa paaevaidi geya, tauna adi vaboda moe vaega aiigabudi! Kidi simenti geya, tauna adi bwada moe taa!
- Vaega aiigabudi siwodugudi ikavava, sidigo kadi,
‘Tawou, vaega aigabudiyadi takabīdi, tavapopōidi ida vada taodugūdi asa vau manuna go, vada tayamo maanawena taodūgu ituko ina be ana saku moe yábana goi, e bei yoida gagaina. Nakae taguinūwe, govila bei tasapa.’
- E Yauwe isou ima asayana be nakae vadayana maanawena tomota siiwodugu igitedi.
- Igitedi, idigo kana,
‘Iyaa! Kaga tuwaina bei siguinuwe? Tauyadi boda tayamo be nakae niyadi tayamo. Tauna neta ame vadayana silukavave, e kaga neta latuwodi, itoboinedi siguinuwe.
- Tawou, tasōu niyadi takinigonigōe; tamo tamo niyadi ituli ituli, e bei geya itoboinedita sediyao niyadi siyagoi.’
- Tuwo moitamo Yauwe ikausapesapedi poyapoya liliuna goi, e idi vada be idi kasa geya silukavavedita.
- E amoko goi tomota liliudi niyadi kina Yauwe ikinigonigoe nakae tomota liliudi ikausapesapedi, tauna moe pasina amo asayana sivayou Babeli.
Source: Buki Kimaasabaina. Gumawana Bible. The New Testament and part of the Old Testament of the Holy Bible in the Gumawana language of Papua New Guinea. Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., 2019.
Contributed by Wolfgang Kuhl
Gumawana is a Western Oceanic language spoken in the Amphlett Islands in Milne Bay Province in Papua New Guinea.
More information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumawana_language
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