Writing in Chinuk Wawa

[Isaac M. Davis]

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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The smalle rain down can rain
Christ yf my love were in my arms
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