caucauangata.
sanguaqangata a tja papa a kacalisiyan.
Free translation:
It's really a person!
Indigenous cuisine is really tasty.
Word gloss:
- caucau-angata: really human. caucau 'people, human'; -angata 'really'.
- sanguaq-angata: really tasty. sa-nguaq 'tasty'; the root is nguaq 'good, blessed, well'.
- a: subject case marker
- tja: our, 1st person plural GEN, proclitic but I write it separately.
- papa: cooking, cuisine
- a: LIG
- ka-calisi-(y)an: indigenous
Voice file:
From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982) and kakanen a kinacalisiyan 'Indigenous Food'.
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