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Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985)

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Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976

Ne piltzintzin kenemej takata, yaja nakak de rey.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
The little boy, since now he was a man, became the king, he became king.

El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976

Yaja kitajtan se konsejoj wan kimakaket, kimakat se konsejoj.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
He asked for advice and it was given to him, they gave him advice.
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: yaja
Translation
Finally the deer dried up and she, the skull, was going to die all alone there in the canyon.
Yawi ne Tantepuslamat, ja yaja inan, ne brujaj Tantepuslamat.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
The witch (the "iron-toothed-old-woman") came. It's she who is her mother, the witch "iron-toothed-old-woman".
Kinilwia ne Nanawatzin, se chimpe: Shinechwikakan ne idamuj nulama, yaja ja kikwa ne takwal.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Kinilwia ne Nanawatzin, se chimpe: Shinechwikakan ne idamuj nulama, yaja ja kikwa ne takwal. Pwes shinechwikakan.
The Nanahuatzin, the youngest child, said to them, "take me; my grandmother's fellow, he's the one who eats the food; so take me!".
Tesu, tesu ja masat, sino ne idamuj ne inlama, ja yaja kimiktijket, wan kiwikaket ne nakat pal kikwa ne inlama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
No, that was not deer, but rather their grandmother's fellow. It was him that they killed, and they took the meat so that their grandmother would eat it.

Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975

Keman inat yejemet ka yawi panu urakan, segun yejemet inat ka tik ne ejekat panu ne witzet hombres wan siwatket al aire con tal de que witzet kwikat elut pal yejemet kiwikat, kunij ne mijmil nakak bien quebrado, bien aplastado, varias mazorcas desfigurado en un aspecto de como buba, yajane mazorcas kwikat ne Chiltiupanekos sekun nutatanoy wan nu noyaj kichiwket kontar.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
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.
Kunij yaja kichiwki se trampaj, tik ne trampaj welik kikutamima se siwapil como de diesiocho años, peroj ne siwapil al mumentuj ke wetzki talchi inmediatamente mukwepki se chumpipi.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
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.
Yaja (ne) tay kichiwki contestar, kaj siwapil?
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Yaja (ne) tay kichiwki contestar, kaj siwapil? Tesu kitztuk, lo ke si ya kiajsik en campo libre se chumpipi.
What he answered was that he had not seen a girl. What he had found on open ground was a turkey.
Kunij yaja kitzki wan kwikak ka ichan, wan kilwij isiwaw ma kimiktij wan kichiwki se komidaj wan kikwajket.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Then he caught it and took it home and told his wife to kill it and make the food, and they ate it.
Al ratito tikwini,kan (kwak)(keman) tikwinik yaja kita ka maya kimak bueltaj en la buelta ke kimaka muciwket elevar wan muchiwket desaparecer.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Soon it thrundered. When it thundered he saw that it just turned around. In the turn that it made it raised and disappeared.

El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975

An trece de julio y dia de San Antonio nin ninemi nuchan tisennemit a la par wan se nuamikuj, witz wejka, yaja kineki kikaki kwentos tay tik nutechan kikchiwtuk suceder.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Today, the 13th of July and St. Anthony's day, I am here in my house together with my friend who comes from far away. He likes to hear stories about what has taken place in my town.
An niyaw nikchij kontar ka nin nemi se chulet ke yaja propio yaja nechilwijtuk ka inan ne iteku né tik arkuj nemit.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
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.)
Yajika keman yaja mayana , ina isel, "por el ultimo nikmai kan nemi nuteku, kan nemi nunan."
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
So when he was hungry, he said to himself, "finally I know where my father is, where my mother is".
Kunij yaja kilwia.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Kunij yaja kilwia. Tikpia wey pan?
Then he said, "do you have lots of bread?"
Kunij ne inan kalaki, mientras ne inan kalaki kalwika mas pan, yaja pejki kikwa ne tortaj kimakatuk inan.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Then his mother went inside. While his mother was going in to bring more bread, he began to eat the sandwich his mother had given him.
Desde luego ka nin tik numataw ojonbron plastas pal toroj witz, yaja nikwaj tesu pan.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Therefore, here in my bag are big cowpies; that's what I ate, not bread.
Pero keman niyaw nimukwepa niyawi niyaw nikajwa ne nunan tayika yaja nechmakatuk.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
But when I go back there, I'm going to chew out my mother for what she has given me.
Yaj propio ne chulet nechiwtuk kontar, yaja itukay Lorenso López kipiatuya ume ipilawan.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
The old man himself has told me this. His name was Lorenzo López. He had two sons.
Kilwia los dos pipil "taja timayordomoj, pero maya taja mumanuj mas vivo yaja alvolario".
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
He said to the two boys, "you are a steward, but only you. Your brother is smarter; he is a wizard.
Yaja oficio yaw anwelit.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
These are your professions; go and learn them."
Al fin keman yaja kineki miki ka mayana wan te kipia kishtia se espejuj tay oraj takipini.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Finally, when he wanted to die because he was hungry and because he had nothing, he got out a mirror while it was lightning.
Tatawilua wan ne espejuj, pero né tesu yaja idestino te keman kimiktij.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
He shined with his mirror, but that was not to be his fate; he never killed him.

La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975

Keman yaja yawi katka derechoj ne kayej, yaj kiski iishpan Siwanawal.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
When he was going down the street the Siguanaba (a siren-like supernatural being in the form of a woman) came out in front of him.
Ya klaroj kitak kaj witz ne siwat, pero en ese rato yaja kishmatki, kitak yaja se siwat itukay Lionaj.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
He saw clearly that the woman was coming but at that time he recognized her, (thinking that) he saw a woman named Leonarda.
Kunij yaja kinutzki.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Then he spoke to her.
Se me afigura, kilwij yaja.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Se me afigura, kilwij yaja. Tesu tiLionaj.
"It seems to me", he said, "you are not Leonarda".
Kunij inak yaja: Ini tesu yek, ini nukujkul, pero nikchiwki jregar, porke nikilpij.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Then he said, "this is not good". "This is a spook." "But I messed her up because I tied her up."
Kunij yaja algo mumutij.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Then he was a little scared.
Naja nechchiwki kontar nutatanoy, kaj esas cosas, pwes keman yaja joven kikaktuk kaj kichiwtuk suseder tik techan.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
My grandfather told me these things that when he was young he heard happen in this town.

El Sipitillo · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975

Kaj kichij konvenir kichiju kanar nusan, ashta kimaka tutunik keman kinmutia, yajne (yaja ne) kilwiat Sipitiyuj.
El Sipitillo · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975 · See in the dictionary: yaja
Translation
Whoever it pays, can come out ahead, also. He even gives a fever to those he frightens. That one is called "the Sipitillo".

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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).