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Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku770Naja Ni Genaro70Achtu Taksalis16Timumachtikan!128El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos56The Pipil Language of El Salvador49
King, Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku (2012)
770 occurrences
Chapter 1
Ashkan tiksajsakat chikwasenpual kushtal aros.
p. 19
Tiu-talkwit chikwasen sontes kwawit.
Ashkan tiu-talkwit chikwasen shikiwit istaket, chikwasen shikiwit chiltiket; ashkan ne et kutiltiket.
p. 19 · See in the dictionary: chikwasen
Nechnamakilia ka tzunti pesos ne kwawit.
p. 19 · See in the dictionary: kwawit
Chapter 2
Tikichkwat ne tal ipal tiktukat ne ish ne kakawat.
p. 20
Ramírez, Naja Ni Genaro (2004)
70 occurrences
Kwak Naja Nichikitik
Kwak Naja Nichikitik
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation
Childhood
Nipejki niaw ka tamachtiluyan kwak nikpiatuya majtakti shiwit.
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: kwa
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.
Yajika kwak naja nichikitik maya niksajsajsaka kumal pal niknamaka.
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: kwa
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.
Nitamachtia Nawat
Kiunij panuk miak shiwit, wan kwak nikpiatuya 47 shiwit nitekitik tik ne Kalpuli.
p. 6 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation
Kiunij panuk miak shiwit, wan kwak nikpiatuya 47 shiwit nitekitik tik ne Kalpuli. Né ninemik ume shiwit, wan ka tesu nechtashtawat yek, nikiski wan ninakak nitekiti tik ne kojtan.
Many years passed, and when I was 47 years old I worked for the Town Council. I was there for two years, but as it didn’t pay well, I left and went to work in the fields.
Nikpalewia Ne Nawataketzalis
Kiunij panuk, pejki niajsi pal nechishmatit, wan kwak nechishmatket, ne nantzin Vicky de Amaya nechilwij:
p. 8 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation
Panuk ka nechilwijket ma niajsi ka Kulalmumachtiani pal nechishmatit. Kiunij panuk, pejki niajsi pal nechishmatit, wan kwak nechishmatket, ne nantzin Vicky de Amaya nechilwij:
Then they invited me to visit the Students’ Circle. So along I went, and when they met me, Mrs. Vicky de Amaya said to me:
Cárcamo et al., Achtu Taksalis (2023)
16 occurrences
Tamachtilis 3. Nikneki kukumutzin
Tamachtilis 9. Nechkukua nuweyka.
Maka (ma’) shikwa miak kukumutzin!
See in the dictionary: kwa
Teya niunikwa miak kukumutzin nian nakatamal.
King, Timumachtikan! (2011)
128 occurrences
5 Tay kichiwa?
7 Tay horaj timuketza?
Tay horaj tikisa? — Naja nikisa chikwasen horaj.
p. 35 · See in the dictionary: chikwasen
Translation (Spanish)
Tay horaj tikisa? — Naja nikisa chikwasen horaj. Niajsi chikume horaj, wan nitekiti hasta tajkutunal.
¿A qué hora sales? — Salgo a las seis. Llego a las siete, y trabajo hasta mediodía.
Tay horaj timukwepa ka teutak? — Nimukwepa makwil o chikwasen horaj.
p. 35 · See in the dictionary: chikwasen
Translation (Spanish)
¿A qué hora regresas por la tarde? — Regreso a las cinco o las seis.
Tay horaj tikuchi ka tayua? — Nitakwa chikwey horaj wan nimuteka chiknawi horaj, pal nimuketza peyna.
p. 35 · See in the dictionary: takwa
Translation (Spanish)
¿A qué hora te duermes por la noche? — Como a las ocho y me acuesto a las nueve, para levantarme temprano.
8 Nikpia se mistun
Ká kikwa ne et?
p. 38 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation (Spanish)
¿Quién come los frijoles?
Aráuz, El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos (1960)
56 occurrences
p. 47 · Nahuizalco
p. 48 · Nahuizalco
Ume ish wan yey kwakwacho.
p. 48 · Nahuizalco
Translation (Spanish)
Dos ojos y tres cuernos
Nawi piltzinmet takwat.
p. 48 · Nahuizalco
Translation (Spanish)
Cuatro muchachos están comiendo
Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985)
49 occurrences
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Ta kikwa ne takat kishtilia, kishtilia; muchi kishtilia, ta kineki kikwa, muchi kishtilia.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation
Whatever the man ate she took away from him, she took it away, she took everything, whatever he wanted to eat she took away from him.
Ashan nechilwia ne palej asu nikpia se nufinkita, ma niyu iwan, wan ne chijchiltik tzaput ma kikwa ne ujuksik, wan tami ma kimaka wan ne chijchikajtuk pal nikmiktia.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation
"Now the priest told me that if I have a farm that I should go with her that she eat the red custard apples that are ripe, and then I should hit her with the hard ones in order to kill her."
Kinekit kikwat ne nakat, ne ijyak nakat pal ne masat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation
They wanted to eat the meat, the stinking meat of the deer.
Te shikwakan nushulejyu, te shikwakan nushulejyu!, asi le dice.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation
"Don't eat my husband, don't eat my husband!", that's what she said to them.
Muchijki ne kwawit wan kipishki se itakil, se wajkal.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kwawit
Translation
The tree grew and it had a fruit, a gourd.
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).