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Naja Ni Genaro23Achtu Taksalis6Timumachtikan!17The Pipil Language of El Salvador35
Ramírez, Naja Ni Genaro (2004)
23 occurrences
Kwak Naja Nichikitik
Tesu welit katka tawawasuat nan amataketzat, yajika naja maya niwelituya nitaketza Nawat.
p. 4
Translation
Since they couldn’t read and write, I only spoke Nawat.
Nitamachtia Nawat
Né ninemik ume shiwit, wan ka tesu nechtashtawat yek, nikiski wan ninakak nitekiti tik ne kojtan.
p. 6
Translation
Kiunij panuk miak shiwit, wan kwak nikpiatuya 47 shiwit nitekitik tik ne Kalpuli. Né ninemik ume shiwit, wan ka tesu nechtashtawat yek, nikiski wan ninakak nitekiti tik ne kojtan.
Many years passed, and when I was 47 years old I worked for the Town Council. I was there for two years, but as it didn’t pay well, I left and went to work in the fields.
Nikpalewia Ne Nawataketzalis
Yejemet tesu nechtashtawat, ka inat ka yejemet tesu kipiat tumin pal nechtashtawat.
p. 8
Translation
Kwak niweli, nikpalewia Alan wan Cecy. Nusan Carlos, melka yaja techanchanej, pero uksan mumachtia Nawataketza. Yejemet tesu nechtashtawat, ka inat ka yejemet tesu kipiat tumin pal nechtashtawat.
When I am able I help Alan and Cecy. Carlos too, although he is a local, but he is still studying Nawat. They don’t pay me, because they say that they don’t have money to pay me with.
Nitakwika Ipal Ne Tiut
Né nechishmatijket ka naja niweli taketza Nawat ka tik ne tiupan ipal Santa Catarina Masawat nitakwikak se takwikalis ka ina “Melka Kwak Taja Tinejnemi, Tesu Musel Tinemi”, wan kikakik ne Palej.
p. 10
Translation
Né nechishmatijket ka naja niweli taketza Nawat ka tik ne tiupan ipal Santa Catarina Masawat nitakwikak se takwikalis ka ina “Melka Kwak Taja Tinejnemi, Tesu Musel Tinemi”, wan kikakik ne Palej. Kunij inak:
There it became known that I could speak Nawat, because at the church in Santa Catarina Masahuát I sang a hymn that goes “Though You Walk, You Are Not Alone”, and the priest heard it. Then he said:
Kiunij Nemi Katka Ne Tutechan
Inat ka kwak pejki ne techan, tesu nemituya sujsul kajkalmet, maya nemituyat se pual majtakti ume, wan ne kajkalmet nemituyat itzalan ne kwajkwawit.
p. 16
Translation
They say that when the village started, there were not many houses, only thirty-two, and the houses were surrounded by trees.
Cárcamo et al., Achtu Taksalis (2023)
6 occurrences
Tamachtilis 4: Tiawikan ka tiankis!
Tesu wejka.
Tamachtilis 9. Nechkukua nuweyka.
Tesu nechkukua nutzuntekun nian nukupak, maya nechkukua nuijti.
Tamachtilis 10. Tay tikchiwat mujmusta
Tesu nikwa tatka, maya nikuni atutun.
Tamachtilis 13. Kaj kichiwa chilmul?
Tesu muneki ne chil ika kipiaya chiltekpin.
Tamachtilis 14. Nitakwa peyna
Tesu.
King, Timumachtikan! (2011)
17 occurrences
8 Nikpia se mistun
Tesu nugustoj.
p. 39
Translation (Spanish)
No me gustan.
14 Tinemit tik Witzapan
Tesu muchi, pero miak.
p. 56
Translation (Spanish)
No todos, pero muchos.
15 Antaketzat Nawat?
Sejse titaketzat wan sejse tesu welit.
p. 59
Translation (Spanish)
Te muchi. Sejse titaketzat wan sejse tesu welit.
No todos. Algunos hablamos y algunos no pueden.
Tik sejse, muchi ne kujkunet mumachtiat, wan tik sejse tesu.
p. 59
Translation (Spanish)
En algunas, todos los niños aprenden, y en otras no.
16 Miak o chiupi?
Tesu muchi.
p. 61
Translation (Spanish)
Tesu muchi. Sejse mumachtiat wan tekitit, wan sejse te mumachtiat, semaya tekitit.
No todos. Algunos estudian y trabajan, y algunos no estudian, sólo trabajan.
Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985)
35 occurrences
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Pero kenemej tesu mawiltia ka afuera, muchijki entristeser.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
But, since he didn't play outside, he became sad.
Tesu welitiwit tesu welitiwit.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Muchi ne doctores panutiwit aber asu kipajtiat. Tesu welitiwit tesu welitiwit.
"All the doctors have come to see if they could cure him; they haven't been able to, they haven't been able."
Jaika (Yajika) ja (ka) tesu pajti.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"So, he doesn't get better."
Yu yawi anmuwan pal muchiwa dibertir, yu yawi anmuwan, tesu ja pal ankisumat.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Yut anyawit. Yu yawi anmuwan pal muchiwa dibertir, yu yawi anmuwan, tesu ja pal ankisumat.
"You'll go and he'll go with you; he'll go with you to have a good time." "He's not here for you to hit him."
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Tesu kimati katka ka ne isiwaw se brujaj.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
He didn't know that his wife was a witch.
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).