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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.

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.

We ask you, Lord Fire, not to abandon us, because if you are not with us then we shall not be able to cook the food that accompanies our tortillas.

And as for the tortilla, if it were not for you, how would we make it?

In my village we make pottery, kumals are for sale, and we come to buy our food and other things too.

Esto es una tortilla.

¿Quiere tortillas?

Te. Semaya ume tamal.

No. Sólamente dos tortillas.

Hace un comal.

Hago tortillas y cuezo frijoles.

Niño, no mates las mariposas, pues además, de no hacer mal alguno, han nacido para adorno de los campos y jardines.

Ne tenesh tet tatatuk iwan kipia istak pusha. Kwak mumana tawiyal, muma' chupi yaja pal kishipewa. Eyupan mupaka yek mupata unpati u yeshpa at, wan nemanha panu wan mupayana pak ne chichiwalmetat. Muma' neman (su kineki) chupi istat. Wan nemanha mutashkalua ne tamal iwan mutalia ijpak ne kumal pal muishka tik tit.

La cal es piedra quemada y tiene color blanco. Cuando se cuece maíz, se le pone de ella para pelarlo. Después se lava bien, cambiándole dos o tres aguas, y luego se pasa y repasa por la piedra de moler. Poniéndole antes (si se quiere) un poco de sal. Y luego se palmean las tortillas y se ponen sobre el comal para cocerlas al fuego.

Kunij shikwa sikiera pan por ke tamal te kanaj. Shikwa pan pal panu mumayana.

"Then at least eat some bread, because there are no tortillas; eat bread so your hunger will go away."

Then he said, "oh son-of-a-bitch". "So this was not a tortilla I have eaten, nor bread, rather it was cowshit that I ate.

Nuamikuj ikustuj na nikchiwa kontar cuentos de cosas ke chiwki suceder nin tik nutechan, an nikchij kontar una cosa ke nutatanoy nechiwki kontar Ya nechilwij ka nin tik tutechan kaj de mala suerte kimutiat, kisa se animal ke yejemet kilwiat "Tzuntekumat". Yajika nutatanoy nechchiwki akonsejar kaj te ma ninejnemi tayua porke tamutiat.

My friend likes me to tell him stories about the things that have taken place in my town. Now I'm going to tell him something that my grandfather told me. He told me that in our town unfortunately one can be frightened. There's a creature they call the "skull". So, my grandfather advised me not to walk at night because they terrify you.