Naan

I, I, I will talk a little story, a bit.

Hen / hen / hen t'ong / k'wal la ndoe aram / le.

The day, in the past (it) has dawned.

B'it / dok / lin toe nnoe.

(I) will talk a little story, a bit.

T'ong k'wal la ndoe aram le.

(I) will speak a little story, a bit.

T'ong kut / la ndoe aram / tyoklok.

(I) will speak this story about the pig and the tortoise and the chicken.

T'ong kut aram nnoe / a k'a loede / ndoe k'ur / ndoe ke.

The pig wanted so that--, (they are) domestic animals, all (of them), that are inside, that are inside the town, a place where (there) are many people, all (of them are) bush animals that ran (away) from the bush, they came (and) entered into the middle of town.

Loede / zem / de n-- / bi k'er / dip / goed'e nd'ûûn / goed'e / nd'ûûn / lu / pe goed'e mutane ngam / dip / ndoe lwa ns'et / goepe mûep swo daga ns'et / mûep doe rwo / dakd'ûe lu.

It (the pig) wanted so that they should talk (and) say that it has strength, so that they should like it (very much).

Ni zem / de mûep goe / k'wal yin / goepe ni toe goe k'oom / de mûep goe zem yit muk yi.

Everything, (so) that when they are searching (it) (for) it, so that they should get (it).

Dip bi goepe mûep la d'e nwen yi de muk / de mûep t'ong goe kat yi.

God talked (and) said, okay, I, I will give you some work so that (I) find out the person who would be able to do the work well.

Naan k'wal yin to / hen / hen t'ong / poe gwen ndoe shit / de na gurum / goepe / t'ong b'oot / goe shin shit hok / toed'ong.

The pig said, (it is) him.

Loede yin a ji.

The tortoise said, (it is) him.

K'ur yin a ji.

The chicken said, (it is) him.

Ke / yin a ji.

They showed them a ring.

Mûep nin mûep goe ndoe / ngoegan.

A ring, they saw (that) the ring shone brightly.

Ngoegan / mûep na ngoegan nnoe myalap.

(It) took (to) their eyes, all (of them) (i.e., they wanted it very much).

Mang yit mûep / dip.

(It) just took (to) their eyes, very much.

Mang yit mûep kûût / p'uur.

They talked (and) said, okay, they would do (it).

Mûep k'wal mûep yi to / t'ong du shin.

God raised this ring to the sky, (and he) threw (it) onto the ground.

Naan eep ngoegan nnoe goet'eng / lyak nyil.

They rose, all of them, so that one (should) take the ring.

Mûep yûûl goek'wak mûep / de nde mang ngoegan hok.

The ring got lost there from amongst their middle.

Ngoegan hok paap d'i dakd'ûe mûep.

Amongst them, (there was) no-one who found (it).

Nd'ûûn mûep / ba ndoe gurum goepe kat.

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Amongst them, no-one who found (it).

Nd'ûûn mûep / ndoe gurum kat ba.

The pig, it spoke (and it) said (that no matter) how many years (it would take), it would search for the ring.

Loede / ni kut / yin ko goe yi kong / t'ong ji wen / ngoegan hok.

The tortoise said (that no matter) how many years (it would take), it would search for the ring.

K'ur / yin ko goe yi kong / t'ong ji wen ngoegan hok.

The chicken said (that no matter) how many years (it would take), it would search for the ring.

Ke / yin ko goe yi kong / t'ong ji wen ngoegan hok.

The duck said (that no matter) how many years (it would take), it would search for the ring.

Sh'oor / wai ko goe yi kong / t'ong ji wen ngoegan hok.

The dog said (that no matter) how many years (it would take), it would search for the ring.

Aas / wai ko goe yi kong / t'ong ji wen ngoegan hok.

The goat said (that no matter) how many years (it would take), it would search for the ring.

ûû / wai ko goe yi kong / t'ong ji wen ngoegan hok.

The pig inserts its mouth (into the earth) (and it) is pushing earth along, (it) is pushing earth along.

Loede / ruun pûe muk / d'e nt'uun yil yi / d'e nt'uun yil yi.

(It) puts his mind (to the task), that (it) would find the ring.

B'ûet an muk / goepe t'ong kat ngoegan hok.

It doesn't find (it).

Ni kat ba.

The tortoise, it, too, is (in) his own way on the ground, (it) is walking along, (it) is walking along.

K'ur / ni d'e bi muk zak nyil / d'e mmûaan yi / d'e mmûaan yi.

Maybe it would find the ring.

Ko ni t'ong kat ngoegan hokhoe.

The tortoise doesn't find (it).

K'ur kat ba.

The dog is digging holes with its paws.

Aas / d'e nhok a t'uun / goe sh'oon muk.

Maybe it would find the ring.

Ko ni t'ong kat ngoegan hokhoe.

The dog doesn't find the ring.

Aas kat ngoegan hok ba.

The chicken is scraping the place with its legs, (it) is scraping, (it) is scraping the place with its legs, so that (it would) see for its own, whether (it) would find the ring.

Ke / d'e nbeer / pe goe sh'e muk / d'e nbeer yi / d'e nbeer pe goe sh'e muk / de na mmuk / goebi t'ong kat ngoegan hok.

It doesn't find (it).

Ni kat ba.

The cow, (it) is always standing upright (in) its own way.

Neng / d'e nd'yem mmuk a goet'eng.

(It) is crying, (it) is crying.

D'e nwal yi / d'e nwal yi.

Maybe (it) would find the ring.

Ko t'ong kat ngoegan hok.

It doesn't find (it).

Ni kat ba.

(This is) the thing that makes (it), when you see the pig (and it) is--, (it) is--, inserting its mouth into the ground (and it) is pushing the earth along, okay, in the past, (it was) the ring, so God threw (it) away for them, so that they should take (it).

A bi goesa toe / la yi na loede / d'e n-- / d'e n-- / ruun pûe muk yi nyil / d'e nt'uun yil yi / to / dok a ngoegan / Naan lyak yi mmûep / de mûep goe mang yi.

The ring fell onto the ground.

Ngoegan hok t'a nyil.

They were not able to take the ring.

Mûep b'at goe mang ngoegan hok ba.

Until this very day, the pig keeps on searching (for) the ring.

Har shini nnoe / loede / lang nwen ngoegan hok yi.

(This is) it, so that you see the pig (and it) is inserting its mouth into the ground.

A ni toe de yi na loede d'e nruun pûe muk yi / nyil.

The chicken, when (it) rises (and) hatches its children, when (it) would search (for) food, however, (it) has never eaten food just like this, so that (it) shouldn't rise.

Ke / la yool k'ak / jap muk / la t'ong tang s'oe tab'a zak s'oe s'oe poenoe / de goe yool yi ba.

It rises, however, so that (it) shouldn't eat food like this.

Ni yool / zak de goe s'oe s'oe yi poenoe ba.

(It) would scrape at the place, so that (it) sees for itself whether the ring is there inside the food that it would eat, so that (it) should find (it) and take (it).

T'ong beer a pe / de na mmuk / goebi ngoegan hok / d'e d'i nd'ûûn / s'oe goet'ong s'oe muk hok / de goe kat yi goe mang.

(It) would scrape (and) scrape, (but it) wouldn't find (it).

T'ong beer t'ong beer t'ong kat ba.

The dog, when (it) eats food, when (it) eats food, when (it) finds some place where (there) is earth.

Aas / la s'oe shat la s'oe shat / la kat ndoe pe goed'e yil.

(It) would dig with its paws, (it) digs with its paws, (it) digs with its paws.

T'ong hok goe sh'oon muk hok goe sh'oon muk hok goe sh'oon muk.

Maybe (it) would find (it).

Ko t'ong kathoe.

(It) would never find (it).

T'ong tab'a kat ba.

(This is) the thing that makes (it that) you see (that) the domestic animals, and the duck, when the duck does (it and it) is also inserting its mouth, just like (the one) of the pig, into the ground, (but) it doesn't find the ring.

A bi goesa toe yi na / gwen bi k'er / ndoe sh'oor / sh'oor la shin / d'e nruun pûe muk yi ma goebi mmuk loede / nyil / ni kat ngoegan hok ba.

They keep on turning around.

Mûep leng nyir yi.

Since the past times until today, until tomorrow, some of them they have died, they keep on searching.

Tun poedok / har shini / har goed'aar / d'emde mûep mûep mûarap / mûep leng nwen yi.

They don't find (it).

Mûep kat ba.

Some of us, some of them, they keep on searching. They don't find (it).

D'emde men / d'emde / mûep / mûep leng nwen yi. Mûep kat ba.

Until they eventually die in the trouble of searching (for) the thing.

Har mûep goe-goe mûarap / nd'ûûn wala tang goe tang bi hok.

Some--, some of them, they rose, they saw, they rose (and they) would do (it), they, however, they entered into the doing of it.

D'em-- / de mûep / mûep yûûl / mûep na / mûep yûûl t'ong shin / mûep zak mûep rwo goenshin nni.

(This is) it (that) you see (that) the pig, the goat, the duck, everything, (this is) it (that) they are digging holes.

A ni toe yi na / loede / ûû / sh'oor / ko-bi mmoe / a ni toe mûep d'e nhok t'uun yi.

Maybe (that) they would find the ring in the ground.

Ko kuma mûep t'ong kat ngoegan hok nyil.

You see (that) some of us, on this earth of God, they follow craving, they follow greed, they follow something that would take (to) the eyes of someone, they follow the thing that we won't go into trouble for.

Yi na d'emde men / goe yil Naan nnoe / mûep bi a bi / d'ûam / mûep bi a bi t'il / mûep bi a bi goet'ong mang yit gurum / mûep bi a bi goepe t'ong moe shin wala ba.

We want for us to get (this thing) for free from the hands of the people.

Moe zem mmen a de-goe nlap / goelong / goe s'a mutane.

We want for us that we don't do (it) with our sweat so that we get (it) (i.e., we don't want to make an effort to get things).

Moe zem mmen de moe shin yi goe wun men / de moe kat yi ba.

We want for us (that) the thing (is such) that, so that people should give (the things to) us, so that we receive (them), so that we are proud of them.

Moe zem mmen / a bi goepe / de gurum goe poe men / de moe lap yi / de moe sh'ai yi nni.

(This is) the thing that makes (it) that I talk this thing, (that) I speak about the domestic animals.

Bi goesa goepe hen k'wal / bi nnoe / hen kut a k'a nye / bi k'er.

The domestic animals, okay, they do this thing.

Bi k'er / to / mûep shin / bi nnoe toe.

We, the adult people, we (****) are just taking it.

Men gurum k'ek goetep / men (???) toe nya ni yi.

We are doing this kind (of thing).

Moe d'e moe nshin iri goennoe yi.

A small thing, when we see (it and) when (it) takes (to our) eyes, when they would give (it to) one person, we wouldn't want that we leave (it) to this person.

Bi tyoklok / la moe na la mang yit / mûep la t'ong poe gurum goeme / t'ong moe zem / de moe nyet yi ngurum hok ba.

We would want so that (it) should turn (into) our own.

T'ong moe zem / de goe yir a mmen.

Or maybe I would want so that (it) should turn (into) my own.

Ko kuma hen t'ong zem / de goe yir a mman.

Or maybe you want so that (it) should turn (into) your own.

Ko yi zem / de goe yir a mnik.

God is dividing our work.

Naan / d'e nk'a men yi.

The ways are very different to know everyone who arrives on this earth of God, another one, a thing, on our earth, uh.

Wakaam / k'emk'em / de-goe man ko-gurum goepe / ni wul goe yil Naan nnoe / a nde / bi / goe yil / men / uh.

And (there are) some, they arrived on this earth to pray to God.

D'emde zak / mûep wul / goe yil nnoe / a de-goe toe b'ool Naan.

And others, they arrived (for) another thing on the earth, they don't like suffering (i.e., working hard).

Moed'emde zak / mûep wul / a nde bi goe yil / mûep zem wala ba.

Do they like (it) for their own?

Mûep zem mmûep a?

Only when someone finishes his suffering, so that they then come to steal (his things).

Sai gurum la gama wala muk / de mûep goe doe goe mûûr yi.

So that then they come and beat the person and seize (his things).

De mûep goe doe goe / dal gurum hok goe b'aam.

Maybe they then kill the person on the way, which isn't good.

Ko mûep goe tu gurum hok / k'a wakaam / goepe d'ong ba.

You see, we, we people, we people, we are very different.

Yi na / men / men mutane / men gurum / men a k'emk'em.

You see the domestic animals, they, too, they are very different.

Yi na bi k'er / mûep zak / mûep a k'emk'em.

(This is) the thing that makes (it).

A bi goesa toe.