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(One time) a journalist from a newspaper came here to write about Tawlu [lit. to do this about Tawlu],

hajʁib caw karispendent kːazatla Tawluj ce barq'ij heχ

to write an article about the one who is the best [as a farmer].

statja belk'unne kak peredowiklij.

Well, he wrote a beautiful article, he prepared how many hectares, how many hectares, what [Tawlu] did.

nu belk'un cab qːuʁace statja heχil ħaˁdur barq'ib cab čum sotok, čum gektar, ce birq'ulde

How he became the best, everything.

cet'le perewodik agurde lidil cik'al.

"Well, I get up early, I lay down late," he says, about it, a bit there.

nu ixʷle hercːud ik'ul caw q'anne gur waxud helij čut čut tam... [CROSSTALK]

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Then he tells him his surname.

c'il familija ik'ulcaw heχicːe iχ.

Tawlu tells him Zhaparov.

iχ Tawlu ik'ul žaˁparow.

And given name Tawlu.

imja Tawlu.

Patronym Tawluevich.

otčestwo Tawluewič,

He [the journalist] got angry and thought that he [Tawlu] made a joke, and wrote [in the article] Zhandaruv Tawlu Tawluevich.

heχ q'uc' ʡaˁsi iχuble caw dukaltːi kerħaˁn caw ik'ul žaˁndaruw Tawlu Tawluewič belk'unnede.

[No], (he) wrote Tawlu Zhandarovich.

Tawlu žaˁndaruwič belk'unnede.

No, he was Dargi.

aʔa, darkːʷande.

Then (Tawlu) found (him), they met up with him.

c'il warčːible hel wstreča barq'ible helicːella.

"Why did you say it like this, why did you do this?"

cellij ik'ulde heχʁuna barq'ibde ul?

"Why did you insult a person?"

cellij oskorbit warq'ibde admila gal?

Back and forth.

tuda-sjuda.

"Wah, he's done this to me," (the journalist) says, "why should I not do this?"

waħ cinni ik'ʷar du ce warq'ible dul cel awarq'anne caw?

(Tawlu) showed his passport (to the journalist), and then that (journalist) said sorry.

pasport čiwažaqible izwinitsja iχub c'il.

"I got angry," he says, "when you said this, Tawlu," he says.

du ʡaˁsi iχubda ik'ʷar, heχ Tawlu bik'ʷanqːella ik'ʷar.

That [journalist] was a nationalist.

nacijonalist gursajčible hel.

A story like this happened to Tawlu and him.

helʁuna t'amahama agurtede Tawlulara heχilara.

With Tawlu such stories always happen.

heχ Tawlula har zamana dirχʷar t'amahama.

Do you want to record [lit. write] it here?

heštːu belk'ʷij bikːuldew at?

Well six, all my life, 26 years I only worked.

nu šest... lidilra ʡuˁmru ʁanu urekːra dusː tolko rabotal.

24, 25 years as as a lorry driver.

ʁanu aʁʷra-xura dusː dalnobojšikom

Among all the most beautiful (country) in the world seemed to me Latvia.

libillicːerka bah qːuʁace dunja kabicːuril dam dejstwitelno Latwijade.

Latvia, Estonia,... tall trees.

Latwija, Estonija... [CROSSTALK] kːalkme duqente

Fruit in the forests however much you wanted.

c'idex wac'acːed kusa dikːuldel.

(Latvia was) a very fitting [= good] place.

c'aq'le balbičib musːa.

And the roads, order, beauty, and the roads!

i xun,... amzudex, krasota, xunra

When I arrived there in Latvia, there were slabbed roads, I remember now, my car made 'parapara' (= sound),

hetːu wituqunqːella Latwijalcːe plitačnyj xunbe, dam hanbičib na libil mašin dila parapara habirkanne ik'ul

(My car) stuck to the road with a shikshik sound, it went very well without problem.

čikabarc'ur xunne šik-šik t'amacːella wabše laˁʁunce awadance xun.

The car did not shake.

hak'bulqunne akːʷi mašina

In the towns there were no traffic lights.

šaharricːed swetaforte dakːʷi.

If two people meet, three people were on the side of the road, the cars stopped and let these people go, there was civilization there.

k'ʷel admi can bikardel... ʡaˁb admi xunna baʔle, t'aškaʁible mašinte propuskat birq'ulde hetːi χalq' ciwilizacija heltːub

Well...

wot.

Then I stayed there at a house, well, there, when I arrived in Latvia, pieces of asphalt and chewing gum flew up from the asphalt [= because I drove so fast, because the roads were good]; I hit on the road [= drove fast].

c'ili daˁrχaˁlla dučːi qiliw kelgunda nu hetːu... witulqanqːella Latwijalcːe aswalt'la but'a sitːa aswalt'ler habertːible čibaˁqibda het

In the middle (of the plates) you put the letter D, in front.

D bukwala daglicːe, ul, daglicːe q'ut'čibitarq'ibda sala.

Before arriving there, not even one (person) stopped me.

hetːu čiwitagurdaj t'ašaaʁibda calli alrah

Because the Latvian plate, I drove with it, like this without a little trick I cannot be.

cellij akːun latjšskij nomerte pod nix proexalsja helʁuna q'ʷila-q'ʷila ʡaˁmalte kam adirχʷi dila

At night when I arrived at the house of a Russian woman, we slept there.

dučːi sajʁibqːella ʡurus xunulla qili xuradiχubda nušːa.

At midnight, at one o'сlock at night I arrived.

polnoč saˁʡaˁt ca dičible dučːilla sajʁibcede du.

When I parked the car and entered the house it was already 2 o'clock.

mašin kabaturre hajʁi k'ʷi dičib

(She) cleaned my upper body, that woman washed me,

wagla qar amzu warq'ible wircible het xunulli du.

(she) made me dinner,

waχːunne daˁrχaˁlla.

and put me to bed.

kʷir warq'ibda.

In the morning, I slept until 11.

čːaˁʡaˁlla saˁʡaˁt wec'nu cara dikaraj usːunne kelgunda du.

When I woke up, there was nobody at home.

čisalhunqːella insan wakːʷi qiliw

The gold was lying around, everything was there on that what's-its-face, on the dressing table [i.e. all her jewelry was lying out in the open].

lakkadarq'ible murhe led, celled čid, trilaˁžledčid.

Then, if I tell you, rings, bracelets, everything, many things were there.

c'il acːe bursille t'upːugle, qulexme lidil cik'al daqil lette.

There was money, (money) was placed there.

arc lette kadišːible heltːud

Well, all of her (things) were there, (her) wealth was there, (her things) were thrown about there.

nu libil cinna leb dawla-mas leb lak'sakabarq'ible heltːusa.

About this I lost my mind, I went crazy [because I couldn't believe people would just leave their stuff around and not lock their houses], nobody was at home; neither could I leave the house [like this], I would be sad if somebody stole something.

helij qːaʁ iχubda, baˁħ iχubda čak'al wakːu qiliw ja guppaturre qal guražij bala, biʡaˁn hasːar ja cik'al

There was no lock. There wasn't even a lock in one door, neither from the outside nor from the inside.

meχ dakːu, cadaalra uncːala hitːi kaburqaˁnra bakːu qːapu ja tːurarka ja barklerka.

I went to one neighbour, to the second, to the third neighbour, I found her.

ca zunrašːu agurda, k'ʷiibil, ʡaˁbibil zunra rarčːibda.

I took her home and showed her everything. She was confused.

hačible čidažaqibda lidil heltːi, it urk' ruqun

"At our place no one steals," she said.

hešːt... nišːala heštːub bilʡaˁn wakːu rik'ʷar.

You can leave [go] without worry.

uˁq'en rik'ʷar bahlal ala.

Now to have a clean face, to clean my conscience, I brought her there.

na dul dila daˁʡla amzudex barčːij bahanne dila sowest očistit barq'ij bahandan hačibilde hetːu

Even if (nobody) was there, I did not touch it. In my life I have not taken anything that was not mine.

akːʷar xar qːuc aiči, ʡuˁnruleb dul hasːibil akːu urra cik'al.

And I was afraid about this.

helij urk'čiw uqunda.

Of a car [= road], having burnt a match, if you throw it down, having smoked a cigarette,

mašinala spičkala šːala pirχkabarq'ible lakkabarq'itːe p'ap'rus berčːiblehitːi.

"Pick it up!", the passers-by [lit. the ones who pass by] tell you,

gurhasːa bik'ulde satːibitulqante

A cleanness like theirs I have seen nowhere else.

itːalaʁuna amzudex dul nalla čibažibil akːu.

civilization, order, good

ciwilizacija, porjadok, ʡaˁħdex [CROSSTALK]

If you let the ashes of your cigarette fall down, they said, "Take it off" (= clean it up).

helde, hel hel pepel p'aq'kabarq'itːera uberi bik'ulde hetːi.

There was such a clean, beautiful place.

helʁuna amzudexla qːuʁace musːa tebde

At their place, it was quiet, orderly, it was a beautiful, good place.

hettala bahlala bahlala porjadoklicːeb qːuʁace ʡaˁħkabicːur musːa het cab.

The worst (place) was Azerbaijan.

bah wahice ʡaˁzirbažande.

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There it was dirty, dirty, and the people are bad.

hextːub... naˁsdex... naˁsdexra χalq'la ʡaˁħdex... wahidexra

There is no place where I did not go. I went to every town in Russia, to every town.

ajteʁib musːa belil akːu juldaš, har šaharricːe har Rassijala šaharricːe primerno čiwiteʁibilda du.

And I ended up in a racket, and there were scandals and problems

bikːan reket čibičib, bikːan heltːi qːalmaqːar t'amahama čidičib

Ah, he, this, when I came back (from Lativa), when I left, my fuel finished on a hill.

ha hetil het kat' hilawa čariχuble tːurasaˁq'unne salaˁrk'a haberχːur pojemleb dila

The petrol station was already visible. I went away from there carrying a bucket of fuel.

uže čibigul zaprawka lebde agurre heltːurka badra salaˁrk'ala kaqːibda.

They gave (me the bucket), they did not take money or anything (for the fuel in the bucket), the attendant (at the petrol station, a woman), said, "When you refuel, you will let it (i.e. leave the money, pay)."

bičːib, zad ja arc asasːib; cinna zaprawit barq'ibqːel batij arganne, rik'ul zaprawšica

And I directly went to the petrol station through the stop sign (taking the wrong entry).

i srazu warxle wihač'ibda, znak lebde kabicːurre kirpič..

I drove to the petrol station where it was prohibited, to refuel because the fuel was out.

pod kirpič wiagurre dila bakːʷarqːella haburχːul salaˁrk'a ahaberχːʷaqij

They said, "Drive away!" The other drivers threw me out, they did not let me refuel.

hel tːura uq'aˁn, bik'ul šupirtal tːuraaʁibda helka aaturda zaprawit.

One said (this), a second one, then the attendent says, "I'm not pouring even a drop of fuel."

calli bursib, k'ʷilli bursib c'il il zaprawšica rik'ʷar wabše k'at' akert'ulda rik'ʷar salaˁrk'a

I cannot drive on (lit. it is not to go on).

hej guruq'ij bakːu.

"If (the fuel) finishes," said the attendent, "pour another bucket, and then drive here as other people and refuel!"

haburχːul biχʷar rik'ʷar carara badra bikat'ible čarsabarq'a χalq'li daˁʡle c'il bic'a.

Then I was embarrassed for what had happened, I felt ashamed for what I had done.

hel barq'ij čibičib c'il uruc iχubda dul barq'ibillij du c'aχ kabicːur dam

And I argued, I quarreled with them, though it was my fault.

ʁajčira uqunda, majmajčira uqunda heltːaj du winawatxar.

Then I apologized in front of them, I asked them to forgive me.

c'il izwinicara iχʷij čibičib heltːalla salaw qːuʁal poprasit barq'ibda čirkaderχːʷaja ik'ul.

I drove out, turned around, drove back, refueled normally and left.

tːurakaʁible, čarsabarq'ible hačible qːuʁal bic'ible agurda dalše

There was a place like this, somewhere in the year 83 or 84 this happened.

helʁuna dune tebde hetːi gde-to kːaʔc'anu ʡaˁbra-aʁʷraibil dusːicːeb ʡaˁbraibil dusde, aʁʷraibil dusdew hel.

There was Socialism at that time, proper order (tidiness) like this was there at that time.

socijalizmade hetqːella, hetqːella hetqːella hetʁuna porjadok lebde hetːub

About Estonia, if you ask somebody, the people there are exactly like the Icari people, the people who were there in Estonia.

Estonijala xarbeʁitːel ul hana admilcːe, taˁp uc'rante ʁuna χalq'de Estonijala.

If you ask somebody there how to drive somewhere,

xarbeʁitːel admilcːe činarka heχtːu uˁq'ide

They say, "I sit [in your car and show you the way]," and he sat down, and made me go; I went to the market (with the one who showed the way), when I was at the market, then he himself took the bus.

du haʔible, dawaj sjadu, haʔible, wikajžible, du čikajʁaqible heχtːu rinokle heχ primerno w osnownom rinoklewde waxadi hetːu... c'il caw čikajžible abtabuzle.

"Why did you come with me?"

hej iltːu kat' cellij kač'ibde?

"You," he said, "you would get lost here in a town that you do not know."

a u ik'ʷar witiqutːe heštːuw šaharricːew abalχan šaharricːew.

And the Latvians, on the contrary, either told the wrong way, or did not say anything, turned around, and went away.

a iχ latjšalla naoborotde, jara balk'unne čibursi, ja zad ahaʔible čarsabiχuble baši

They were probably angry with those who did not speak (their language), they did not tell (the way).

ʡaˁsil burčːi hetːi ʁaj abik'ʷi hettal abursi.

But the Estonians, I think, are very similar to the Icari people, no difference, how often I went there.

a hextːi estoncabe ik'ulda dik'ardex akːʷar uc'rantaj miši kabicːur dam, čujnara agurda hetːu

As for drinking, they drink with you, they sit with you and have nice conversations, and although they do not shame you, they do not say a word.

bučra bučːu acːella kabižible, qːuʁace iχtilatra birq'i, bek'licːe paˁqčikajk'ʷanxar ʁajra abik'ʷi.

[They] are good people.

ʡaˁħ χalq'de.

The Estonian people were good.

Estonijala χalq' ʡaˁħtede