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Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku1,547Naja Ni Genaro164Achtu Taksalis39Timumachtikan!370El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos182The Pipil Language of El Salvador179
King, Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku (2012)
1547 occurrences
Chapter 1
Ramírez, Naja Ni Genaro (2004)
164 occurrences
Kwak Naja Nichikitik
Ninesik tik Witzapan tik ne metzti chiknawi ipal ne shiwit 1933, ne ikunew Juana Ramírez wan Catarino Vásquez.
p. 4
Translation
Nutukay Genaro Ramírez Vásquez. Ninesik tik Witzapan tik ne metzti chiknawi ipal ne shiwit 1933, ne ikunew Juana Ramírez wan Catarino Vásquez. Nunan itekiw muchi pal ne kal, wan nuteku itekiw tik ne kojtan. Ne ume ipal Kushkatan.
My name is Genaro Ramirez Vasquez. I was born in Santo Domingo de Guzmán in September, 1933, the son of Juana Ramirez and Catarino Vasquez. My mother was a housewife, and my father worked in the fields. Both were from El Salvador.
Ne ume ipal Kushkatan.
p. 4
Translation
Nutukay Genaro Ramírez Vásquez. Ninesik tik Witzapan tik ne metzti chiknawi ipal ne shiwit 1933, ne ikunew Juana Ramírez wan Catarino Vásquez. Nunan itekiw muchi pal ne kal, wan nuteku itekiw tik ne kojtan. Ne ume ipal Kushkatan.
My name is Genaro Ramirez Vasquez. I was born in Santo Domingo de Guzmán in September, 1933, the son of Juana Ramirez and Catarino Vasquez. My mother was a housewife, and my father worked in the fields. Both were from El Salvador.
Tesu welit katka tawawasuat nan amataketzat, yajika naja maya niwelituya nitaketza Nawat.
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: Nawat
Translation
Since they couldn’t read and write, I only spoke Nawat.
Nipejki niaw ka tamachtiluyan kwak nikpiatuya majtakti shiwit.
p. 4
Translation
Nipejki niaw ka tamachtiluyan kwak nikpiatuya majtakti shiwit. Maya nimumachtij ume taksaya.
I started going to school at the age of ten. I only studied up to second grade.
Iwan ipatiw chupi naka pal nikua tay nimuneki, wan chupi pal nimukwepa nikua senpa kumal.
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: patiw
Translation
Yajika kwak naja nichikitik maya niksajsajsaka kumal pal niknamaka. Iwan ipatiw chupi naka pal nikua tay nimuneki, wan chupi pal nimukwepa nikua senpa kumal.
So when I was a boy I just carried kumals to sell (in the market). What I earned was hardly enough to pay for what I needed and to buy more kumals.
Cárcamo et al., Achtu Taksalis (2023)
39 occurrences
Tamachtilis 1: Ken tinemi?
Tamachtilis 2. Kan muchan?
Tamachtilis 3. Nikneki kukumutzin
Tiawikan ka tiankis pal tikuat!
See in the dictionary: kua
King, Timumachtikan! (2011)
370 occurrences
3 Ini ne tamachtiani
Yaja se siwat.
p. 23 · See in the dictionary: siwat
Translation (Spanish)
Ella es una mujer.
Yaja se takat.
p. 23 · See in the dictionary: takat
Translation (Spanish)
Él es un hombre.
Uni se awakat?
p. 24 · See in the dictionary: awakat
Translation (Spanish)
¿Eso es un aguacate?
Ini se awakat.
p. 24 · See in the dictionary: awakat
Translation (Spanish)
E. Ini se awakat.
Sí. Esto es un aguacate.
Uni se tumat?
p. 24 · See in the dictionary: tumat
Translation (Spanish)
¿Eso es un tomate?
Aráuz, El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos (1960)
182 occurrences
p. 47 · Nahuizalco
p. 48 · Nahuizalco
Ume petat wan se chikiwit.
p. 48 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: petat
Translation (Spanish)
Dos esteras y un canasto
Yey kalat wan nawi kukuat.
p. 48 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: kalat, kuat
Translation (Spanish)
Tres sapos y cuatro culebras
Ume kukunet mawiltiat.
p. 48 · Nahuizalco
Translation (Spanish)
Dos niños están jugando
Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985)
179 occurrences
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Ashan katka se rey kipia se itelpuchtzin.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Once there was a king; he had a son.
Kikuilia ne isapatos de oroj.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
He bought gold shoes for him, he bought gold shoes.
Ne iseltzin kipiat.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: pia
Translation
Ne iseltzin kipiat. Pejki kukuya, pejki kukuya.
They had him there all alone; he began to get sick, he started to get ill.
Kilwia ne inan ma tinakan ne reynaj; kilwia ne inan: Tiut tiyawit tipashaluat nepa ka kujtan Tiut tiawit aber su timuchiwa alegrar chupi.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
His mother -- we mean the queen --, his mother said, "let's go take a walk there in the woods". "Let's go see if you won't cheer up a bit."
Ne reynaj bidaj kimati ka kichijket atender.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: mati
Translation
The queen felt good that he attended them.
Sources and licenses
- Schultze Jena, Leonhard (recop.); King, Alan R. (ed.). Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku: narradores en náhuat Ynes Masin y otros. Edición en línea, enero 2012.
- Ramírez Vásquez, Genaro. Naja Ni Genaro. Edited by Alan R. King. IRIN (Iniciativa para la Recuperación del Idioma Náhuat), 2004; first electronic edition, 2013.
- Cárcamo, Héctor; Guardado, Martín; Domínguez, Ana; Aquino, Celeste; Ordóñez, Gary; Salgado, Hugo. Aprendiendo Náhuat en el Siglo 21: Achtu Taksalis. Edmonton: University of Alberta Library, 2023. https://pressbooks.openeducationalberta.ca/nawatse/. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Adapted by nahuat.com.
- King, Alan R. Timumachtikan! Curso de lengua náhuat para principiantes adultos. 2011.
- Aráuz, Próspero. El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos. San Salvador, El Salvador: Departamento Editorial del Ministerio de Cultura, 1960. Adapted by nahuat.com.
- Campbell, Lyle. The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton Grammar Library 1. Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: Mouton, 1985. Traducción al español de los textos: Mauricio Mixco, en Campbell, El Idioma Pipil (Nahuate) de El Salvador (manuscrito inédito).