<DIV id=RTEContent>Klahowya konaway kluksta !</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have produced also a Gibbs-Shaw-style version of the Djoha story.</DIV> <DIV>In case someone is interested, it is below.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Francisc</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>DJOHA YAHKA NANITSH OKE LAPOTE<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>/<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>DJOHA IS WATCHING THE DOOR</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The original text in the Moroccan Arabic dialect with German translation was published (with the title “Dschoha bewacht die Tür”) in Gotthelf Bergsträsser’s “Einführung in die semitischen Sprachen”
(Max Hueber Verlag, München, 1977, p. 173-176). The translations in English and Chinuk Wawa are made by myself.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Ahnkutte yahka mitlite ikt tenas man yahhul Djoha.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>In old times there was a young man called Djoha.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Pee yahka mitlite kunamoxt yahka mama, yahka nem Halima.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>And he lived with his mother, whose name was Halima.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Pee oke Djoha yahka mama yahka mitlite ow yahhul Ali.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>And Djoha’s mother had a brother called Ali.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Alta Ali yahka okuste yahka chahko malieh pee kluska mamook hyas muckamuck.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Now Ali’s daughter got married and they had a wedding party.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:
0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Djoha yahka mama yahka klatawa kopa ukuk yahka ow yahka hyas muckamuck.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Djoha’s mother went to this wedding party of her borther.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Yahka wawa Djoha spose chahko pee wawa yahka: “Oh nika tenas, close nanitsh oke house yahka lapote!”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>She called Djoha and told him: “Oh my son, watch the door of the house!”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Yahka wawa
yahka “Aha, mama!” Pee yahka klatawa kopa oke hyas muckamuck pee mahsh yahka spose nanitsh lapote.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>He told her “Yes, mother!” And she went to the wedding party leaving him watching the door.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Yahka mama yahka mitlite kopa oke house kah oke hyas muckamuck.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>His mother sat down in the house of the wedding party.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Alta Djoha chahko wake close yahka tumtum spose kopet ikt
yahka mitlite kopa oke house.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Now Djoha had a dull time sitting in the house alone.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Yahka hyiu tumtum ikta spose yahka mamook.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>He was thinking what he should do.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Yahka wawa: “Nika mama yahka wawa kopa mika: ‘Close nanitsh oke lapote!’;</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>He spoke (to himself): “My
mother told me: ‘Watch the door!’;</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Alta nika mamook klak oke lapote pee nika mamook mitlite kopa nika latet pee lolo yahka pee nika klatawa pee wawa kopa nika mama spose yahka kelapi kopa yahka house.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Now I’ll take out the door and put it on my head and take it with me and I’ll go and tell my mother to come back to her house.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Yahka klatawa oke house kah oke hyas muckamuck, pee yahka mamook mitlite oke lapote kopa wall pee koko oke lapote kopa oke house kah oke
hyas muckamuck.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>He went to the wedding house, leant the door on the wall and knocked the door of the wedding house.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Ikt klootchman chahko klaghanie kopa oke house kah oke hyas muckamuck pee yahka wawa yahka: “ikta mika tikegh, Djoha?”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>A woman came out from the wedding house and told him: “What do you want, Djoha?”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Yahka wawa yahka “Wawa nika mama spose chahko!” Pee
yahka wawa yahka “Close.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>He told her “Call my mother!” And she told him “Good.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Yahka klatawa kopa house kopa oke Djoha yahka mama pee yahka wawa yahka: “Wawa kopa mika tenas!”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>She went inside to Djoha’s mother and told her: “Speak with your son!”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Yahka chahko klaghanie kopa yahka pee yahka kriye pee yahka wawa yahka: “Oh mika cultus man, kluksta nika mamook
mitlite kopa oke house, mika cultus man?”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>She went out to him shouting and told him: “Oh you bastard, who did you left in the house, you bastard?”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Yahka wawa yahka: “Oh mama, spose ikta mika wawa solleks kopa nika? Mika wawa nika: ‘Close nanitsh oke lapote!’; wake mika wawa nika ‘Close nanitsh oke house!’</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>He told her: “Oh mother, why do you scold me? You have told me: ‘Watch the door!’; you didn’t tell me ‘Watch the house!’</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Kahkwa nika mamook klak oke lapote pee lolo kopa nika latet. Nanitsh yahka kopáh, yahka mitlite kopa oke wall.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Thus I took out the door and brought it on my head. See it there leaning on the wall.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Yahka wawa yahka: “Mika nah scotty pee ikta kahta mika? Alta alki oke kapswalla tilikum kluska chahko house pee iskum nesika iktas.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>She yold him: “Are you crazy or what’s the matter with you? Now the thiefs will enter the house and steal our things.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in
0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Yahka wawa yahka: “Wake nika kumtuks ikta. Mika wawa nika spose nanitsh kopet oke lapote. Nanitsh kopáh, nika lolo yahka kopa nika piko.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>He told her: “I don’t know anything. You told me to watch only the door. See there, I brought it on my back.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Alta yahka mama yahka chahko kumtuks spose yahka tenas halo latet. Alta elip yahka heehee kopa yahka pee wawa:</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Now his mother realized that her son is an idiot. She begun to
laugh on him and said:</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“Delate mika wawa, oh Djoha, pee kopet! Weght nika pelton spose nika potlatch elahan kopa oke pelton.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“This is the truth what you said, oh Djoha, and that’s all! I am also a fool since I’m abetting the fool.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Kopet kahkwa oke Djoha yahka eckahnam.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The story of Djoha is ended.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in
0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT></o:p> </div></DIV><p>
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