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| | #REDIRECT [[Babel]] |
| The '''Babel Text''' is the story of the Tower of Babel, as related in Genesis 11:1-9. Translations of the Babel Text have frequently been used as sample texts to exhibit the basic character of a conlang. Other common sample texts include the [[Our Father|Pater Noster]] and [[The North Wind and the Sun]].
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| The story of Babel, in which all the languages of the world are said to have been created, has been taken as iconic among conlangers; stylized images of the Tower of Babel appear on emblems such as the [[conlang flag]] and the [[FrathWiki]] logo.
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| The use of the Babel Text as a sample text for a new language has sometimes been criticized; being a religious text, the act of translating it into a new conlang may, overtly or covertly, have an effect on its associated conculture.[http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0105a&L=conlang&F=&S=&P=42843]
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| == The Babel Text in English (King James Version) ==
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| And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
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| And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
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| And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
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| And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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| And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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| And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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| Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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| So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the
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| city.
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| Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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| </blockquote>
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| :''Other versions may be found in many places; [http://unboundbible.org/ The Unbound Bible], for example, has several translations of the Bible, in English and in other languages.''
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| == Babel Texts on FrathWiki ==
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| ''This list is incomplete. You can help FrathWiki by adding to it.''
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| * [[Sample_Texts_of_Ch-m-_Tlondor#Babel_Text|Ch-m- Tlondor]]
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| * [[Khangaþyagon_Babel_Text|Khangaþyagon]]
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| * [[Kratal-Rul#Babel_text|Kratal-Rul]]
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