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Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku2,175Naja Ni Genaro224Achtu Taksalis75Timumachtikan!575El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos287The Pipil Language of El Salvador219
King, Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku (2012)
2175 occurrences
Chapter 1
Ramírez, Naja Ni Genaro (2004)
224 occurrences
Kwak Naja Nichikitik
Ninesik tik Witzapan tik ne metzti chiknawi ipal ne shiwit 1933, ne ikunew Juana Ramírez wan Catarino Vásquez.
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: eltiw, ikaw, kujkul, kunet, kunpa, pipi, teku, wan
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: kojtan, nan, eltiw, ikaw, kujkul, kunet, kunpa, pipi, teku, wan
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.
Ne ume ipal Kushkatan.
p. 4
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.
Tesu welit katka tawawasuat nan amataketzat, yajika naja maya niwelituya nitaketza Nawat.
p. 4 · See in the dictionary: nan, nan2, nian
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.
Cárcamo et al., Achtu Taksalis (2023)
75 occurrences
Tamachtilis 1: Ken tinemi?
Tamachtilis 2. Kan muchan?
King, Timumachtikan! (2011)
575 occurrences
1 Yek tunal!
2 Ken mutukay?
3 Ini ne tamachtiani
Fernando se tamachtiani nusan.
p. 23 · See in the dictionary: nusan
Translation (Spanish)
Fernando es un profesor también.
Aráuz, El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos (1960)
287 occurrences
p. 47 · Nahuizalco
Kan nemi ne kunet?
p. 47 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: kan, kua, talia
Translation (Spanish)
Dónde está el niño?
Kan tiyaw?
p. 47 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: kan, kua, talia
Translation (Spanish)
Para dónde vas?
Kan tiwitz cho (sic)?
p. 47 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: kan, kua, talia
Translation (Spanish)
De dónde vienes?
Ka techan.
p. 47 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: techan
Translation (Spanish)
Para el pueblo
Ka kojtan.
p. 47 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: kojtan
Translation (Spanish)
Para el monte
Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985)
219 occurrences
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Ashan katka se rey kipia se itelpuchtzin.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: ashan
Translation
Once there was a king; he had a son.
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 · See in the dictionary: nan, kojtan, ina
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."
Nepa ka se llanura, ajsiket chan se anciano, chan se shuretzin.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: chan, techan
Translation
There on the plain they arrived at an old man's house, a little old man.
Ma mawilti wan mas pipiltzitzin, yu muchiwa alegrar.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: eltiw, ikaw, kujkul, kunet, kunpa, pipi, teku, wan
Translation
"Let him play with other boys, he'll cheer up."
Kalikat ne yey pipiltzitzin se inmijmichintzitzin, wan ne seyuk kalika se itapajsul ne wilutzin mareño.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: eltiw, ikaw, kujkul, kunet, kunpa, pipi, teku, wan
Translation
The three boys brought some little fish, and the other brought a nest of the mareño bird.
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).