Only one word survives that is directly identified as being from the language of the Gaya confederacy.
A few words have survived to the modern day.
About 100 words of the Gulidjan language have survived.
Sophocles wrote a satyr play Cedalion, of which a few words survive.
The word also survived in Romania, where the generic term for a machine gun is mitralieră.
Like any other new dialect that has passed over the continent in the last four centuries, a vowel here or a word there may survive.
The word survives also in songs such as "There is a tavern in the town".
There is no performance history for these fragments, and neither words nor music have survived.
He might indeed die here, but at least his words would survive him and become tools which wiser men could use.
Fortunately, his words survived in our memories and recording devices.
