Paiwan Every Day 301: susu // pasusu

nakuya inika itjen a pasusu tua siuntinting a kakudan, maqaluvu a tja djalan. 

In English:

It’s not good to not follow traffic regulations, our traffic will become chaotic.

Glossary:

1. na-kuya: not good or bad. The root is kuya ‘bad, ill luck’.
2. inika: not, negator (NEG)
3. itjen: we inclusive (INCL)
4. a: ligature (LIG)
5. pa-susu: follow or obey. The root is susu ‘meaning’.
6. tua: oblique (OBL) case marker
7. si-un-tin-ting: to use (as instrument) for driving. The root is unting ‘drive’ in reduplication (RED), loanword from Japanese 運転うんてん.
8. a: ligature (LIG)
9. ka-kuda-(a)n: custom or ways of doing things. The root is kuda ‘rule’.
10. ma-qaluvu: become confusing or chaotic. The root is qaluvu ‘mix, confuse’.
11. a: subject case marker
12. tja: our, 1st person plural genitive (GEN)
13. djalan: road

Reading:

From CIP Online Paiwan Dictionary pasusu. 

This was written at the intersection where to make a left turn to my village spungudan. I was literally stopped at my own door as a chain of vehicles packed with hot spring or 温泉おんせん seekers  jammed the traffic. Never in my life; quite a view.