Babel

The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9)

Kiluba (Luba-Katanga)

  1. Ebiya panopantanda ponsololo padi ludimi lunga? lumo lonka, ne myanda mine mo.
  2. Kabidi kwadi enka nenki, po badi benda lwendo lwa kutunduka, batana dilungu mu ntanda ya Shinadi; ino baikala konka.
  3. Penepo kwivwana bene na bene amba: Twayai tukabumbe matafwadi ne kusoka tusoke'o biyambe, kadi matafwadi o mabwe, ne bitoto nabyo byo ke byakushimika nabyo.
  4. Ebiya ke benena'mba: Twayai twishimikile kibundi kikatakata, kadi ne kiteba, mutwe wakyo utenge ne ku diulu kwine; nankyo twitumbije dijina, kutyina twakakusankena konso konso ku meso a ntanda.
  5. Penepa Yehova watuka amone kibundi'kya ne kiteba kine kyo bashimika bana ba bantu.
  6. Ebiya kwivwana Yehova kanena'mba: Monapo bidi, badi bamo bonka ne ludimi lumo lonka; kine kino'ki e kyo baalula kulonga; ino pano, kutupu kyakwibakankajapo kulonga mo bafwatakakenya kulonga, mhm.
  7. Twayai bidi tutuke tuvutakanye konka ludumi lwabo, amba kebakivwanapo abo bene ne bene mo benenena.
  8. E monka muno mwebasansaninye Yehova, konso konso ku meso a ntanda; ne kuleka baleka'byo kushimika kibundi.
  9. Po pa mwanda o bekinikile dijina dyakyo bu-Babele; mwanda Yehova wavutakenyeko ludimi lwa bonso bapanshi, kadi konkako Yehova webapalakaninya konso konso ku meso a ntanda.

Source: Ngalwilo (Genesis). Mukanda Ukola Wa Mwine Leza. Kipwanino Kya Kala Ne Kipwanino Kipya. La Sainte Bbile en Kiluba. La Société Biblique du Zaïre, Kinshasa, 1980.

Contributed by Wolfgang Kuhl

Luba-Katanga is a Bantu language spoken in the south east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by abouy 1.5 million people.

More information about Luba-Katanga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luba-Katanga_language
http://www.ethnologue.com/language/lub

Tower of Babel in Bantu languages

Bangi, Bemba, Benga, Beti, Bulu, Chichewa, Dawida, Haya, Ibinda, Kamba, Kiga, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kongo, Koti, Kwangali, Kwanyama, Lamba, Lenje, Lingala, Lomwe, Lozi, Luba-Katanga, Luganda, Luragooli, Mbunda, Mpongwe, Ndau, Ndebele, Ndonga, Nkore, Northern Sotho, Nyakyusa, Sango, Sena, Shi, Shona, Soga, Southern Sotho, Sukuma, Swahili, Swati, Taita, Talinga, Tetela, Tonga, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Venda, Xhosa, Yao, Zulu

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