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#3?? by Anaïs
??English

viedzatu saamoaeiin kurgdraššint tuvalu.
njomakoiltu kurgdraššint šuwa, laliwğatnu riaduliin umstawa tuvaluuliin kudrašštang.
smootvot eysma kiinatnu jacukurgdraštng njokoltdei, vlaumğatnu riaduliin umstawa.

a group of missionaries from samoa went to tuvalu.
it influenced people, and they started to forget tuvaluan traditional songs and the belief system.
after a hundred years, the twenty missionaries stopped influencing people, and they started to sing traditional songs again.

Glossary

  • e - come from
  • jacu- twenty
  • kin - stop
  • ku-draš - believe in
  • ku-gdraš - to make someone believe
    • ku-rgdraš - to be a missionary
  • kudrašštang - belief system
  • liw - forget
  • njo-kolt - influence
  • o - go to
    • odz - to go and wander about in
    • viedz - paucal, perfective stem of “odz”
  • riad - people, ethnic group, set of traditions
  • saamoa - Samoa
  • smoot- - hundred
  • šu - person
  • tuvalu - Tuvalu
  • um - sing
  • umsta - music
  • vot - year
  • ys - to pass (of time)

Inflection:

  • -at - narrative evidentiality
  • -dei - habitual nominalizer, “the act of Xing”
  • e- - resultative stem formant
  • ğ - past tense
  • <i> - perfective stem formant
  • -iin - relative head, “the one who X”
  • ku= in (preverb)
  • la- - inchoative marker
  • ma- - 3rd person human object
  • -ma - converb; “while X happened”
  • -ng - paucal
  • -njo around (preverb)
  • -šin - group of X
  • -t - ergative
  • -u - 3rd person singular
  • -ul - “relating to X” (the output of this is a verb)
  • v= again (preverb)
  • -wa - plural

All the verbal prefixes before you today go after the preverb. Let me know if you have any questions.