abuelo

'My late grandfather, like Don Hualima he didn't go to school.'

uj kayni di' nono' (choy rey, che) jeya kus ney Don Walima kaj eskwelanawá'us.

'He didn't know how to write.'

ka' bispapá'us naj benaben̍wa'us.

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'But his head knew.'

ban koj bakwakwá'uj bispa.

'And he speaks the language, he knows the language well, this Juan Hualima.'

che chonsineł bara onaraná'us aj chonsinełwá'us, kuj ney Juan Walima.

'He is better than d. E., he is better.'

julará'us kuj don Elisgardo, julará'us.

'That's how my (finado) grandfather was.'

choy rey jea uj kayni di' nono'o.

'He didn't know about the school at all.'

kaj rey bispapá'us naj rey eskwela rey.

'He didn't even make a little circle, he didn't know it.'

ka rey jisanawa'us beya'ka rey oj di' a:te' kwaj ka: bispapa'us.

'My grandfather didn't know.'

kaj bispapa'us oj nono'o.

'And he was rich, he had many cows.'

che riko uj nono'o, kawra ij wa:ka'us.

'That was when I was a little child, but I already noticed.'

nasko rey dichiyeye tochi', ban jayna to'baycho.

'The merchants always came.'

joycheł is chon̍ komersyante di' juyeni.

'They sold all kinds of things.'

rimłekarim nij okakara.

'And he traded with the people who ... were rich.'

che usko jayna eney jisana'us oj nego:siyo nij juyeni di' ita:na di' riko buka'.

'who sold all kinds of things.'

di' rimłeka:rim nij okakara.

'Then he just made stripes, he just made stripes.'

jayna usko che ja' piłna'us ja'a, piłná'us ja'.

'You couldn't cheat him in the deal, you couldn't!'

kaj rey oso'niwa oj enganyarkayá'us noj rey nego:siyowá'us, rey kaj!

'The ones who could write couldn't win over him, never.'

julrawá'us ij rey bispa di' benaben̍pa, ka: rey. jayna(C)

'His trading was good, he sold cows, novillos, bulls.'

jayaw oj nego:siyowá'us, rimałe'us ij waka, nowiyo, weye ij rimałé'us.

'That was when my mother sold one cow.'

nasko jema' rimałewa'nej ma' oj sota'ra di' waka.

'One cow was the price of those earrings she gave me.

sota'ra di' waka oj bawra'ij ney mon̍loto di' kayłe:wa'ne.

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'One cow was what the earrings cost.'

sota'ra di' waka oj jankarimeła'ij mon̍loto.

'which I lost when that man "carnevalled" me.'

di' kwalena noj karnabałe:wa uj rey itila:kwa.

'That was what my mother sold,'

asko rimałe'nej ma:mi.

'because they brought ones of gold, rings and earrings,'

bo joyałe'is buka' ij oro buka', (so') sortija che ij mon̍lotowanrani.

'and chains was what the traders brought.'

che ij kadena ij joyałe'ij buka' komersyante.

'Then she wanted those earrings.'

jayna yeyna'ne i'ne is ney mon̍lotowanrani.

'My mother wanted those earrings.'

yeyna'nej ma' is jayna ney mon̍loto.

'She told her father, who was my deceased grandfather,'

jayna kenapa'ne uj papa'ne di' kayni di' nono'o.

'She told him that she wanted those earrings.'

kenapa'ne noj yeynawa'ne ij mon̍lotowanrani.

'Then he said: Good, daughter, he said.'

jayna usko jankwa us: Dokoy majni, jankwa us.

'Then I will buy you the earrings you want, her father said.'

loy ił jayłe eney(C) rimełnakwa:na nij mon̍loto di' yeynan, jankwa uj papa'ne.

'because he didn't speak Spanish, my grandfather.'

bo ka: rey kástewá'uj nono' rey.

'He didn't speak Spanish, just Movima.'

ka: rey kastewá'us, bo chonsineł ja'a.

'He said to her,'

jankwa us ni'ne.

'That was when she could still hear, she wasn't very deaf then.'

nasko dira pawanełwa'ne, kaj sin̍lototo'ne mere'.

'She was just a little deaf.'

beyra ja' oj sin̍lototo'ne.

'Now she can't hear anymore.'

rey ney jayna kaj pawanełwa'ne.

'Then he said to her: Good, daughter, now I'll buy what you want.'

jayna eney(C) jankwa us ni'ne jayna: Dokoy majni, nokowaj riméłna ij yeynan.

'You have a cow that doesn't raise its calves, her calves die (on her), they just die.'

koro'koj wakan di' loy, di' loy(C) eyajkwinwa nikij majniwa'as bo ja' kaykaniyemajcho, kayni ja'a.

'She bears them and they die, the cow aborts her calves, daughter.'

tami:ti'i, che kayni, ło'chołyemajcho koj waka, majni.

'That one you sell as exchange for the earrings you want, he said to her.'

asko nokwa rimałen di' bawra ij monlotowanrani di' yeynan, jankwa us ni'ne.

'Then the cow was sold.'

jayna asko rimłe oj waka.

'That was the exchange for the earrings that I lost that she gave me.'

asko bawra ij mon̍loto di' ij kwalena di' kwayłe:wa'ne.

'Then she sold the cow - HE sold it.'

jayna rimałe'ne oj waka, jayna rimałe'us usko.

'Because she told her father what she wanted.'

bo i'ne kenapa'ne uj papa'ne noj yeyna'ne.

'Then she wanted a sewing machine that was foot-driven, a sewing machine that is (kicked) (gesture towards feet) while you're sewing.'

jayna rey yeyna'ne oj ma:kina di' łe'i, di' ma:kina di' łe'i ney naj sita'ojwan.

'Not with the hands, but foot-driven, the machine.'

ka: nikij chopankwa bo łe'i oj ma:kina.

'She wanted it because they brought that machine as well.'

yeyna'ne bo buka' joyałe'is oj ma:kina jema'a.

'She wanted the machine.'

yeyna'ne oj ma:kina.

'My grandfather bought the machine for his daughter.'

rimełnakwana uj nono'o noj makina'nej majniwa'us.

'They say that two of these, two novillos were the price of the foot-driven machine.'

Ney(C) ney oyra łan̍ ij, oyra ij nowiyo di' bawra oj ma:kina di' łe'i.

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'That was what she wanted.'

asko yeyna'ne.

'My grandfather bought it, he sold ox that were of one yoke, tame ox.'

riméłna uj nono', rimałe'us ij weye'ne di' sota'tova'ij weye'ne di' manso ij weye'ne.

'Yes, they were the price of the machine.'

jojo'o, isko bawra oj makina.

'And one female cow, that was the price of the earrings she gave to me, the ones I lost.'

che oj sotapoy di' waka di' kweyampoy, asko bawra'ij mon̍loto di' kayłe:wa'ne di' ij kwalena.

'Now never again I put earrings on.'

jayna manra kaj jayna rey dodo'wa ij mon̍loto.

'Not anymore!'

jayna kwaj kaj!

'Only now these, only now, only now.'

jo'mi łan i:, jo'mi, jo'mi.

'I don't put just anything on, I don't buy the fantasy ones, I don't want that.'

ka: rey do'nawa, rimełnawa rey ja' ij fantasiya rey ka: yeyeywa.

'Because they damage my ears when I put them on.'

bo den̍den̍ ij lototo noj do'nawa.

'It is finished'

ka'de as