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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:

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:

Nechilwij ne tunal keman yawi muchiwa ne congreso pal naja niajsi. Wan kiunij kichiwket pal nechishmatit ne ishmatijket. Kitaket ka naja niweli nitaketza Nawat wan nusan nitawawasua. Anka yajika ka ne nawi congreso nechilwijket ka yawit nechmakat nutekiw.

She told me the date of the conference so that I would come. And that is how the specialists met me. They saw that I could speak Nawat and write it too. Maybe that is why they told me I would have work in four conferences.

Nechilwij ne tunal keman yawi muchiwa ne congreso pal naja niajsi. Wan kiunij kichiwket pal nechishmatit ne ishmatijket. Kitaket ka naja niweli nitaketza Nawat wan nusan nitawawasua. Anka yajika ka ne nawi congreso nechilwijket ka yawit nechmakat nutekiw.

She told me the date of the conference so that I would come. And that is how the specialists met me. They saw that I could speak Nawat and write it too. Maybe that is why they told me I would have work in four conferences.

So they called me over and I went to talk to him, and he said to me:

— Porque él me dijo que mañana no se va a quedar en casa.

— Te nikmati, te nechilwij. Pero yawi mukwepa ka tajkutunal. Tiweli tiaw tiktajtanilia ka teutak.

— No sé, no me dijo. Pero regresará a mediodía. Puedes ir a preguntarle en la tarde.

— Yaja nechilwij ka te niweli nitaketza iwan aka tik ne ujti. Niawa tel!

— Ella me dijo que no puedo hablar con nadie en el camino. Ya me voy pues!

Kwak tiajsiket ichan ne tapajtiani, yaja nechitak pero inak ka te kiajsik tatka. Inak ka naja te nikukuya, maya nisutawa. Nechmakak se pajti pal nikuni wan nechilwij ma nimukwepa nimuteka nimusewia hasta ma nimumati yek.

Cuando llegamos donde el médico, él me miró pero dijo que no halló nada. Dijo que yo no estaba enfermo, sólo cansado. Me dio una medicina para tomar y me dijo que volviera a acostarme y descansar hasta que me sintiera bien.

— Semaya nechilwij ma nimutali nitajkwilua. Nikishtij ne nuamatzin tik ne nukustalchin wan nipejki nitajkwilua ken muchi.

— Sólo me dijo que me sentara y empezara a escribir. Saqué de mi mochila mi cuaderno y empecé a escribir como los otros.

"I don't know, but they told me my wife is a witch, that I should be careful."

I remember what my grandmother and my grandfather told me.

Today I'm going to tell him that there is an old man here who himself has told me that his mother and his father are there in the arch. (There is a natural rock-arch very near Santo Domingo de Guzmán.)

Nuamikuj ikustuj na nikchiwa kontar cuentos de cosas ke chiwki suceder nin tik nutechan, an nikchij kontar una cosa ke nutatanoy nechiwki kontar Ya nechilwij ka nin tik tutechan kaj de mala suerte kimutiat, kisa se animal ke yejemet kilwiat "Tzuntekumat". Yajika nutatanoy nechchiwki akonsejar kaj te ma ninejnemi tayua porke tamutiat.

My friend likes me to tell him stories about the things that have taken place in my town. Now I'm going to tell him something that my grandfather told me. He told me that in our town unfortunately one can be frightened. There's a creature they call the "skull". So, my grandfather advised me not to walk at night because they terrify you.