a kai nua caucau namasan vavak nua kacalisiyan i taiwan.
Free translation:
Human language is the soul of indigenous peoples in Taiwan.
Word gloss:
- a: subject case marker
- kai: word, language
- nua: of, GEN
- caucau: people, human being
- na-masan: to have been or is
- vavak: soul
- ka-calisi-(y)an: hill residents or indigenous peoples
- i: in or at, LOC
- taiwan: Taiwan
Voice file:
From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982), ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary vavak, and klokah tinagiljan a semanvecik tua kai nua sepaiwan 'The Origin of Making Writing [Literacy] for the Paiwan Language'.
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