Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 88: navalj

tiamen a sepaiwan naseqaqusa i tjai navalj tua taiwan. 

In English:
We Paiwan live in the south of Taiwan.

Glossary:
  1. tiamen: first person plural subject we
  2. a: ligature
  3. sepaiwan: Paiwan
  4. naseqaqusa: live
  5. i: case marker for location, in or at
  6. tjainavalj: the root is "navalj" (right, on the right). [tjai-navalj] means in the south; towards upper reahces of river (thus "south" if the river runs from south to north). 
  7. tua: case marker for oblique
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