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Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku69Naja Ni Genaro2Achtu Taksalis13Timumachtikan!25El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos23The Pipil Language of El Salvador16
King, Tajtaketza pal Ijtzalku (2012)
69 occurrences
Chapter 3
Chapter 6
Ramírez, Naja Ni Genaro (2004)
2 occurrences
Ne Tiut Apan
Tiut Apan, taja timetznekit sujsul ka taja titechaltia pal te timitunit, wan pal te mutema iwan tal tuweyka wan timetzmunekit pal tikpakat tukwajkwach, pal tikmanat tay yawi mukwa.
p. 26 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation
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.
Ne Tzikat Wan Ne Tzilintuk
Ne tzikat, kan nemi ukse takwalmet ka weli kikwa, kunij tesu kisa kitemua itakwal; kunij kichia ma tayuakisa pal pewa kisa kitemua itakwal.
p. 38 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation
The ant, when there are other animals about that can eat it, does not go out to look for food. It waits until nightfall to start going out to look for its food.
Cárcamo et al., Achtu Taksalis (2023)
13 occurrences
Tamachtilis 3. Nikneki kukumutzin
Tamachtilis 9. Nechkukua nuweyka.
Maka (ma’) shikwa miak kukumutzin!
See in the dictionary: kwa
Teya niunikwa miak kukumutzin nian nakatamal.
King, Timumachtikan! (2011)
25 occurrences
5 Tay kichiwa?
7 Tay horaj timuketza?
Tay horaj tikuchi ka tayua? — Nitakwa chikwey horaj wan nimuteka chiknawi horaj, pal nimuketza peyna.
p. 35 · See in the dictionary: takwa
Translation (Spanish)
¿A qué hora te duermes por la noche? — Como a las ocho y me acuesto a las nueve, para levantarme temprano.
8 Nikpia se mistun
Ká kikwa ne et?
p. 38 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation (Spanish)
¿Quién come los frijoles?
Ne chulet kikwa ne et.
p. 38 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation (Spanish)
El anciano come los frijoles.
Semaya ne mistun te kikwa tatka.
p. 38 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation (Spanish)
Sólo el gato no come nada.
Aráuz, El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos (1960)
23 occurrences
p. 47 · Nahuizalco
Nawi kuchakwa.
p. 47 · Nahuizalco
Translation (Spanish)
Cuatro horquetas
Taja titakwa.
p. 47 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: takwa
Translation (Spanish)
Tú comes
p. 49 · Nahuizalco
Tey kikwa ne mistun?
p. 49 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation (Spanish)
Qué come el gato?
p. 51 · Nahuizalco
Se kunet weli takwa, mutalua, chuka, kuchi wan temiki.
p. 51 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: kwa, takwa
Translation (Spanish)
Un niño puede comer, correr, llorar, dormir y soñar.
Se pelu weli tiajwa, takwa, tzikwini, tawawana, mutalua iwan kuchi.
p. 51 · Nahuizalco · See in the dictionary: kwa, takwa
Translation (Spanish)
Un perro puede latir, comer, saltar, rascar, correr y dormir.
Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985)
16 occurrences
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Ta kikwa ne takat kishtilia, kishtilia; muchi kishtilia, ta kineki kikwa, muchi kishtilia.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation
Whatever the man ate she took away from him, she took it away, she took everything, whatever he wanted to eat she took away from him.
Ashan nechilwia ne palej asu nikpia se nufinkita, ma niyu iwan, wan ne chijchiltik tzaput ma kikwa ne ujuksik, wan tami ma kimaka wan ne chijchikajtuk pal nikmiktia.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kwa
Translation
"Now the priest told me that if I have a farm that I should go with her that she eat the red custard apples that are ripe, and then I should hit her with the hard ones in order to kill her."
Kinilwia ne Nanawatzin, se chimpe: Shinechwikakan ne idamuj nulama, yaja ja kikwa ne takwal.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kwa
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: kwa
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.
Aj, pwes pejki takwa iseltzin.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976 · See in the dictionary: kwa, takwa
Translation
So, she began to eat alone.
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).