Writing in Chinuk Wawa

[Isaac M. Davis]

Oh, and here's my attempted response to another translation request later in
the thread:

Pus atlki msaika mitlait yakwa, wik mamuk mimêlust kanawi musmus. Piltên
diyab.

I hope it made sense. If it doesn't sound right, be assured that I didn't
pretend to be a fluent speaker or anything, just a hobbyist.


Isaac M. Davis


On 11/29/05, Isaac M. Davis <isaacmacdonalddavis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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."
>
> My (admittedly inexpert) translation:
>
> Msaika mitlait yakwa, klosh pus msaika chaku kêmtêks nsaika lalang.
>
> (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.)
>
>
> Klahawya,
>
> Isaac M. Davis
>
>
>  On 11/29/05, Francisc Czobor <fericzobor at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >  LaXawya khanawi Laksta !
> >
> > 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.
> > 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).
> > 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.
> >
> > aLki wEXt,
> > Francisc
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Westron wynd, when wilt thou blow
> The smalle rain down can rain
> Christ yf my love were in my arms
> And I yn my bed again




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Westron wynd, when wilt thou blow
The smalle rain down can rain
Christ yf my love were in my arms
And I yn my bed again
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