<div>That's very interesting, Francisc. I myself have only translated one piece of text; there was a post in a linguistics-related forum, asking how one would, in indigenous North American languages, say, "If you're going to live here, learn the language."
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<div>My (admittedly inexpert) translation:</div>
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<div>Msaika mitlait yakwa, klosh pus msaika chaku kêmtêks nsaika lalang.</div>
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<div>(I use Jim Holton's orthography; I don't have any teaching materials for learning the Grand Ronde one, and his makes more sense to me than the older, anglicised orthographies.)</div>
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<div>Klahawya,</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Francisc Czobor</b> <<a href="mailto:fericzobor@yahoo.com">fericzobor@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">LaXawya khanawi Laksta !</font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I like very much to write in Chinuk Wawa. Because I' m not gifted to compose myself texts with literary value, I try my hand by translating texts into CW.
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I have already translated into CW a Romanian folk tale ("The purse with two coins"), a Chinookan myth ("The Transformers") and the first eight verses of the Buddhist poem "Dhammapada". I have posted all of them to the defunct Chinook-Wawa Yahoo Group (if there's somebody interested, I can mail them privately or! to this list).
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Now I make another attempt: to translate into CW a Moroccan Arabic folk tale, called "Djoha is watching the door" (Djoha is a character in the Arabic folklore, sometimes trickster, sometimes dupe, very similar to the Dutch-German Till Eulenspiegel or to the Persian-Turkic Nasreddin Hodjah, known also as Mullah Nasruddin). It is quite amusing, maybe you will like it.
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">aLki wEXt,</font></div><span class="sg">
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