LL-L "Anniversary" 2005.10.26 (02) [E/Papiamentu]

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26 October 2005 * Volume 02
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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Anniversary

Dear Lowlanders,

The anniversary project (http://www.lowlands-l.net/anniversary/) keeps 
haunting you ...

Before I get to the meat of this message, I want to make mention of another 
sound file, namely our Dave's reading in the dialect of Dore at the border 
of Yorkshire and Derbyshire: 
http://www.lowlands-l.net/anniversary/index.php?page=s-yorkshire.  I love it 
and listen to it often.  Too bad it's the only translation and sound file in 
a dialect of Northern England so far!

Today I am asking all of you who know speakers of Papiamentu (and there 
ought to be a few among our friends in the Netherlands) to pester such 
people until they relent and proofread my Papiamentu translation of the wren 
story, which you will find below in draft form.  If you succeed in this, 
please also ask the person if she or he wishes to have her or his name 
mentioned, and you might as well try and persuade them to come up with a 
sound recording.

Papiamentu is a Romance-based creole of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao.  It is 
of special interest to us because it has been influenced rather noticeably 
by Dutch, lately also by English.

Please write to me if you have any question.

Bij voorbaat bedankt!
Reinhard/Ron

P.S.: There *are* some sorts of wrens (Troglodytes) on the said islands. But 
I can not find a Papiamentu name for any of them.  Can anyone help?

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WINTERKONINKJE, E CHIKITU PÁRA WAPU


Un chikitu pára – e yama Winterkoninkje – a hasí djé neishi den e barak di 
garoshi. Un día e mayónan ambos a hisa leu. Nan a ker na haña kuminda pa nan 
yiu, í e pober chikitu muchanan keda den e neishi kompletamente so.

Despues un kòrtiku tempu Papa Winterkoninkje regresá kas.

"Kí a pasa aki?" e bisa, "Kén a ofendé abo, muchanan? Bo ta mashá miedoso!"

"O, pai!" nan bisa, "Hustamente un mònster grandi a aparesé desde. E a parse 
asina brabu í teribel, í e a hap den nos neishi ku djé wowo grandi! P'esei 
nos ta awó asina mashá miedoso!"

"Aha!" Papa Winterkoninkje bisa, "í unda e ta awó, esei desgrasiado?"

"Bon," nan bisa, "e sigui esei kaminda, abou den esei direkshon."

"Warda aki!" e papa bisa, "ami lo persiguí e. Ta ketu awó, muchanan, í no ta 
intrakil! Ami lo fangu esei mònster."

Anto e hisa patras.

Kuandu e bini desde e skina e mira un leon kamna den esei kaminda.

Ma Papa Winterkoninkje no tábata miedoso. E hisa riba e lomba di e leon í 
kuminsa reprochá, "Kí abo buska na mi kas í kousa miedu í ansia entre mi 
chikitu muchanan?"

E leon no tendé na e chikitu pára, net dura kamna den e kaminda.

Esaki kousa e chikitu pára wapu reprochá e leon ainda mas furiosamente. "Bo 
a nada pa buska ei! Apsolutamente nada, í p'esei bo a apsolutamente nò 
drechi pa ta ei. Í si bo bini atrobe ... Bon, anto abo lo mira kíko pasa. Mi 
nò gustosamente hasi tal kos," e bisa í subi un di djé pía, "ma mi kier 
fásilmente kibre bo lomba ku esaki pia!"

Anto e regresa na djé neishi.

"Ata, muchanan!" e bisa, "Ami a duna e un les. E lo bolbe nunka mas."

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