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Niktaya ne tal pal niktuka ne mil, pal tik nukal muchi nupijpilawan wan nusiwaw te kiseliat mayan. Kiunij panuk sujsul shijshiwit.

I worked the land and grew corn so that my children and wife wouldn’t go hungry. So the years went by.

How I Have Carried Nawat To Many Countries

Yejemet tesu kimatit, ken an tejemet tikmatit, ka nemi se Tiut ka te tikishmatit. Yejemet kishmatit katka tay kitat, ken ne tunal, ne at, ne tal, ne tawial, ne kwajkwawit, ne kojtan: ipal itakwal, ipal ne tapewil, wan ne kwajkwawit pal kisaluat itakil pal tikwat pal te tikseliat mayan.

They didn’t realise, as we now know, that there is a God whom we didn’t know. They recognised the things they could see, such as the sun, the rain, the land, maize, trees, and nature, which provided their food, game, and fruit-bearing trees for food so as not to endure hunger.

Mother Rain, we thank you for making the fruit grow, for you irrigate the land so that the grass will germinate and the trees will grow green and blossom.

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.

Carlita muketzki, muapakak talul wan kitalij ikwajkwach. Mutalij kiuni chiupi cafe iwan se tamal. Kwak tamik takwa, kiski mutalua. Mutaluj hasta ajsik ichan inoya.

Carlita se levantó, se lavó de prisa y se puso la ropa. Se sentó a beber un poco de café con una tortilla. Cuando había comido, salió corriendo. Corrió hasta la casa de su abuela.

— Tesu, nishtunak nimuketza. Kwak nisak wan niktapuj ne nujnuish, nikitak ne horaj: chikwasen wan tajku. Nikmatki ka su te nimuketza talul, yawi nechajwa ne tamachtiani kwak niajsi ka tamachtiluyan, wan sujsul niu-nishpinawa.

— No, tardé en levantarme. Cuando desperté y abrí los ojos, vi la hora: ¡seis y media! ¡Sabía que si no me levantaba de prisa, me iba a regañar la maestra cuando llegaba a la escuela y me daría mucha pena!

Tengo batatas

Tres canastos están en el suelo

Están los zapotes en el suelo?

No, señor, no están en el suelo?

Los pollitos están picoteando el suelo.

The silk-cotton tree came donw, down came the silk-cotton tree and its brances touched the ground.

Shikida nanita!, kilwiat. Talikat masat, wan sanka.

"Look, gramma", they said to her, "we brought a deer", and it was a lie.

When they say there is going to be a big storm, so they say, in the wind that comes by there come men and women in the wind such that they come to carry off ears of corn for them to eat. Thus the milpas were left broken, quite flattened, with many ears of corn disfigured with a look like pustules. Those were the ears of corn that the Chilteopaners took, according to my grandfather and my grandmother.

So he made a trap. In the trap he was able to catch a girl of about eighteen. But at the moment she fell to the ground, immediately the girl changed into a turkey.