Interlinear glossed text027| Recording date | 1996-03-07 |
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| Speaker age | 80 |
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| Speaker sex | m |
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| Text genre | traditional narrative |
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| Extended corpus | yes |
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| | | Translation | When Ep̃ur was in darkness. Ep̃ur is inland from Eton. |
| nalotwen
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| na- | lot | -wen | | DET- | worship | -NMLZ |
paakorkir
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| paakor | -ki | -r | | appear | -TR | -3PL.OBJ |
| | Translation | When Ep̃ur was in darkness, Christianity was still coming, but the old people of Ep̃ur used to see two birds appear to them. |
| ruentafkir
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| ru= | entaf | -ki | -r | | 3PL.RS= | head | -TR | -3PL.OBJ |
| | Translation | And it wasn't just one, but some villages of which they were the main one. This bird was white and the other one is black. |
| | | Translation | When they are in their village, the white bird flies above, and they say that the Christians will come to their home. |
| | | Translation | But if it is a black bird they say it is the heathen coming. |
| itilm̃ori
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| i= | tilm̃ori | | 3SG.RS= | tell truth |
| | Translation | This is a true story. |
Text view • Utterance view
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