The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9)
Ɔtɛtɛla (Tetela)
Luudu l'Etangelu
- Antu tshe wa la kete waki la oteketa wame ndu aui wuhu otoi.
- Lam'akawatatshokaka utsha lene atuhutoka unya, vo wakatushula usui lu kete ya Shinare, ku vo wakatudjase loko.
- Vo wakatanela vati: Nyeso, tutshi atafadi, tâtshumbi ololo. Atafadi ako wakakiti dihuli dia ave l'ulimu awo. Vo waki la nombe lu dihuli dia potopoto.
- Ku vo wakati ntu vai: Tuyahikeli usumba, ndu luudu l'etangelu layukuma ote alo pulu ndu l'ulungu. Tuyali la lukumu, tutukudiangana la kete tshe.
- Ku Latuyalaka akahulo dia ndjenda usumba ako la luudu l'etangelu lakahiki antu.
- Ndi akati ati: Mete, antu ane weko wudja otoi, ndu vo tshe nteketaka oteketa wame. Lam'atatelawo ntsha okone, nduku dikambu diayeya mbashimba lu akambu wayuwusanguya ntsha.
- Tutshu, tuhulo, tutufutanya oteketa awo, vo watukukana lam'ateketawo.
- Osoku Latuyalaka akâdianganya etali lu beke tshe dia kete, ku vo wakakimo mpika usumba ako.
- Lu dikambu diako mbakawole usumba ako vati: Babele (kitshimudi ati: Nfutanya), ne dia uma laawo mbakafutanya Latuyalaka oteketa wakawateketaka lu kete tshe. Ndu uma leko kakâdianganya Latuyalaka lu kete tshe.
Source: Etatelu (Genesis). Bible K'ekila. Afundelu W‘ekila Wa Daka Di'edjedja La Daka Di'uyuyu. La Bible en Otetela. La Societé Biblique du Zaire, Kinshasa, 1992.
Contributed by Wolfgang Kuhl
Tetela is a Bantu language spoken in northern Kasai-Oriental Province
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by about 750,000 people.
More information about Tetela
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetela_language
http://www.ethnologue.com/language/tll
Tower of Babel in Bantu languages
Bemba,
Beti,
Bulu,
Chichewa,
Dawida,
Haya,
Kamba,
Kiga,
Kikuyu,
Kinyarwanda,
Kirundi,
Kongo,
Koti,
Kwanyama,
Lamba,
Lingala,
Lozi,
Luba-Katanga,
Luganda,
Luragooli,
Mbunda,
Mpongwe,
Ndebele,
Ndonga,
Nkore,
Northern Sotho,
Nyakyusa,
Sango,
Sena,
Shona,
Soga,
Southern Sotho,
Sukuma,
Swahili,
Swati,
Tetela,
Tonga,
Tsonga,
Tswana,
Tumbuka,
Venda,
Xhosa,
Yao,
Zulu
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