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Ramírez, Naja Ni Genaro (2004)
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Kwak Naja Nichikitik
Yajika kwak naja nichikitik maya niksajsajsaka kumal pal niknamaka.
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: kumal
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.
Iwan ipatiw chupi naka pal nikua tay nimuneki, wan chupi pal nimukwepa nikua senpa kumal.
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: kumal
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.
Ken Nikwikatuk Ne Nawataketzalis Ka Miak Tal
Tik ne kenka shiwit niajki ka Honduras; tik ne shiwit 1993 niajki ka Meshikal (ninemik tik ne Estado Campeche); tik ne shiwit 1994 niajki ka Kojtemalan (nikwikak kukunet mijtutianit ipal ne Tenpitzak); tik ne shiwit chiknawi makwil niajki senpa ka Meshikal (ninemik tik ne Provinsiaj Tlashkala, ne timunamijket iwan tawawatianit tik taketzalis Metzali); wan tik ne shiwit 2000 niajki ka Paraway.
p. 14
Translation
That year I went to Honduras; in 1993 I went to Mexico (I was in the state of Campeche); in 1994 I went to Guatemala (I accompanied a junior Tempisque dance group); in 1995 I went to Mexico again (I was in the province of Tlashkala, where we met native-language-speaking craftsmen); and in 2000 I went to Paraguay.
Ñol Tit
Wan Taja, Ñol Tit, timetztajtanit ma te shitechajkawa, ka su taja tesu tinemi tuwan kunij tesu tiwelit tikishkat ne taiwan ipal ne tamal.
p. 30 · See in the dictionary: tamal
Translation
We ask you, Lord Fire, not to abandon us, because if you are not with us then we shall not be able to cook the food that accompanies our tortillas.
Kenka ne tamal, su te tinemiskia taja, taiwan tikuksitiskiat?
p. 30 · See in the dictionary: tamal
Translation
And as for the tortilla, if it were not for you, how would we make it?
Ini Nutechan Witzapan
Ini nutechan Witzapan, te niweli nikelkawa, wan ne tu-Apantepet kan nitemu nimaltia.
p. 44
Translation
This is my village, Witzapan, I cannot forget it, and our stream the Apantepet where I used to go bathing.
Tik nutechan muchiwat kujkumit, kumal pal tiknamakat, iwan tikuat tutakwal wan uksejseyuk ipal titakwat.
p. 44 · See in the dictionary: kumal
Translation
In my village we make pottery, kumals are for sale, and we come to buy our food and other things too.
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).