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You, Mother Rain, do not see who is good, and who is evil; you flood all the earth so that the fields and the trees will flourish.

River God, we love you because you bathe us to keep us cool and wash our body clean of soil and we need you to wash our clothes, and to cook our food.

You sustain the flesh on our body because on account of you our body has blood, and flesh, our body is fattened, our bones are hardened.

Yajika, mupanpa ne tuweyka mumati yek ka ne tuelishku nemi tentuk wan tiwelit tikchiwat tay tejemet tiknekit. Yajika timetzilwiat padiush, Teku Sinti.

Therefore, thanks to you our body is content because our stomach is full and we can do what we wish. Therefore we say: thank you, Father Corn.

Padiush, Nan Tal, ka taja tikitak kwak ninesik, tikitak kwak nipejki niweya, kwak nimuchiwki takat. Mupanpa naja niwelik nikchiwa muchi tay niwelik tik ne tunal, ninemik wejwey takapiltzin, nechmunekiket pal nitekitik iwanmet. Panu sujsul tunal wan nimuchiwki chulet, kunij teya akaj nechneki kwak nikukuya, maya nuiknuwan, kenhayuk nechnekit pero ajsi keman teya akaj nechneki, nan nuiknuwan, ajsi se tunal ka naja nimiki, kunij nan nusiwaw nan nupilawan nechnekit, yawit nechmimat ken kimimat ne kupajsul tik ne kupajsultal, maya taja, Tunan Tal, ashta kwak timikit titechneki ka kunij tiktapua mumajmajkul pal titechnamiki. Yajika timetzilwitiat padiush, Tunan Tal!

Thank you, Mother Earth, because you saw when I was born, you saw when I began to grow, when I became an adult. Thanks to you I was able to do everything I did today, I had a long youth, I was needed for work. After many days I grew old, then nobody wants me when I am ill, only my brothers, they still love me but the day will come when nobody wants me, not even my brothers, the day will come when I die, then not even my wife and my children will want me, they will throw me out as they throw out rubbish, only you, Mother Earth, want us even when we die, for then you open your arms to receive us. For that I thank you, Mother Earth!

¿A qué hora te duermes por la noche? — Como a las ocho y me acuesto a las nueve, para levantarme temprano.

Tik nutechan nemit miak kal, se chikitik tiankis, ume yektzin teupan, wan se apan. Nusan nemi se wey tepet.

En mi pueblo hay muchas casas, un pequeño mercado, dos bonitas iglesias, y un río. También hay un cerro (o volcán) grande.

Abuela, ¡sus orejas son grandes!

¡Son grandes para que te oiga bien, nieta mía!

Abuela, ¡sus ojos también son grandes!

Papá, mamá, mis hermanos y yo vivimos en ella.

Cuando yo sea grande, voy a hacer otra como ésta.

Kunij yaja kilwia. Tikpia wey pan?

Then he said, "do you have lots of bread?"

"Oh, there's a lot of bread."