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Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku706Naja Ni Genaro91Achtu Taksalis33Timumachtikan!292El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos129The Pipil Language of El Salvador56
King, Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku (2012)
706 occurrences
Chapter 1
Ika, tiu -tiktait pal tiktukat ne tunalmil.
p. 17
Shiktamuta ne tasul ipal tikcha arar ipal tiktuka ne tawial ne tunalmil.
p. 17
Ashkan tiu-tiktait pal tiktukat et.
p. 17
Musta tiktuka isel et.
p. 17
Tiktukat ne shupanmil keman ne tal waktuk, ipal keman wetzki ne at takati ne tawial.
p. 18
Ramírez, Naja Ni Genaro (2004)
91 occurrences
Kwak Naja Nichikitik
Kwak Naja Nichikitik
p. 4
Translation
Childhood
Ninesik tik Witzapan tik ne metzti chiknawi ipal ne shiwit 1933, ne ikunew Juana Ramírez wan Catarino Vásquez.
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: Nawat, tajtani, tik
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.
Nunan itekiw muchi pal ne kal, wan nuteku itekiw tik ne kojtan.
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: Nawat, tajtani, tik
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.
Yajika kwak naja nichikitik maya niksajsajsaka kumal pal niknamaka.
p. 4
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: Nawat, tajtani, tik
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.
Cárcamo et al., Achtu Taksalis (2023)
33 occurrences
Tamachtilis 2. Kan muchan?
Tamachtilis 3. Nikneki kukumutzin
King, Timumachtikan! (2011)
292 occurrences
4 Tay tikneki?
Tay tikneki?
p. 27 · See in the dictionary: neki
Translation (Spanish)
¿Qué quiere (usted)?
Tikneki et?
p. 27 · See in the dictionary: neki
Translation (Spanish)
¿Quiere frijoles?
Tikneki tamal?
p. 27 · See in the dictionary: neki
Translation (Spanish)
¿Quiere tortillas?
Tikneki yey?
p. 27 · See in the dictionary: neki
Translation (Spanish)
Keski? Tikneki yey?
¿Cuántas? ¿Quiere tres?
Tay tikneki?
p. 28 · See in the dictionary: neki
Translation (Spanish)
¿Qué quieres?
Aráuz, El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos (1960)
129 occurrences
p. 48 · Nahuizalco
p. 49 · Nahuizalco
Tikmati kanka nemi ne shunpe?
p. 49 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: mati
Translation (Spanish)
Sabes dónde está el sombrero?
Ka nemi ijtik tik ne kumit (sic)?
p. 49 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: Nawat, tajtani, tik
Translation (Spanish)
Quién está sobre la olla?
Keshki shuchit tikpia taja?
p. 49 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: pia
Translation (Spanish)
Cuántas flores tiene Ud?
Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985)
56 occurrences
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
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: chiltik
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."
Tik ne witztal yajki.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: Nawat, tajtani, tik
Translation
Tik ne witztal yajki. Ustuwetzi. Ran! Mutamuta ne ustut.
Into the thorns it went; it fell in the ravine -- "rann" -- it threw itself into the ravine.
Al fin de tanto, wakik ne masat, wan yaja, ne tzuntekumat, yawia miki ka iseltzin tik ne kebrada.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: Nawat, tajtani, tik
Translation
Finally the deer dried up and she, the skull, was going to die all alone there in the canyon.
Pak ka tik (sic) tzinkal kitalij.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: Nawat, tajtani, tik
Translation
Kitalij ka nepa. Pak ka tik (sic) tzinkal kitalij.
She put it over there, in the corner of the house she placed it.
Kabal tapanik ka tajku tayua, ma tikinakan ne "medianoche", tikaki tajku tayua.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kaki
Translation
Then it split open in the middle of the night, let's say at midnight; you hear it at midnight.
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).