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Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku964Naja Ni Genaro93Achtu Taksalis23Timumachtikan!284El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos139The Pipil Language of El Salvador151
King, Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku (2012)
964 occurrences
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Ramírez, Naja Ni Genaro (2004)
93 occurrences
Kwak Naja Nichikitik
Tesu welit katka tawawasuat nan amataketzat, yajika naja maya niwelituya nitaketza Nawat.
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: maka2, semaya, yaja, yajika
Translation
Since they couldn’t read and write, I only spoke Nawat.
Nipejki niaw ka tamachtiluyan kwak nikpiatuya majtakti shiwit.
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: machtia
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.
Maya nimumachtij ume taksaya.
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: maka2, semaya
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: maka2, semaya, yaja, yajika
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
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)
23 occurrences
Tamachtilis 3. Nikneki kukumutzin
Tamachtilis 4: Tiawikan ka tiankis!
King, Timumachtikan! (2011)
284 occurrences
2 Ken mutukay?
Yaja itukay Fernando.
p. 21 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation (Spanish)
Él se llama Fernando.
3 Ini ne tamachtiani
4 Tay tikneki?
Aráuz, El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos (1960)
139 occurrences
p. 47 · Nahuizalco
Yaja mawiltia.
p. 47 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation (Spanish)
El juega
Kan tiyaw?
p. 47 · Nahuizalco
Translation (Spanish)
Para dónde vas?
p. 48 · Nahuizalco
Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985)
151 occurrences
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Pejki kukuya, pejki kukuya.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kukua, kukuya
Translation
Ne iseltzin kipiat. Pejki kukuya, pejki kukuya.
They had him there all alone; he began to get sick, he started to get ill.
Kilwia ne inan ma tinakan ne reynaj; kilwia ne inan: Tiut tiyawit tipashaluat nepa ka kujtan Tiut tiawit aber su timuchiwa alegrar chupi.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
His mother -- we mean the queen --, his mother said, "let's go take a walk there in the woods". "Let's go see if you won't cheer up a bit."
Pwes yajket kiwikak.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yawi
Translation
So the went; she took him.
Pwes kilwia ne shuretzin: Ne mutelpuchtzin kukuya kukuya.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kukua, kukuya
Translation
"Well", the old man said, "your little son is sick, he's sick".
Eje, kilwia, kukuya.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kukua, kukuya
Translation
"Yes", she said, "he is sick".
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).