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#4	Usʔa pa kas by Sascha
Usʔa pa kas	English
Ka e·n e aka tsume·no pa Tsamoa patson Tu·fau komɛ exɔke kix. Ka e·n e aka tsume·no utsu ixi ʔe kasɔ, ka esa ʔe ie uxone teta esa ʔe pa ana pa tetame·no Tu·fau petsi. Isa inei ko tseki ixi ko in aka tsume·no ue utsu komɛ ihi ʔihi ixi ʔe pa ana anaus.	The Samoan missionaries went to Tuvalu and wandered about. The missionaries were influencing people, so they started to forget the musical traditions relating to the Tuvaluan belief system. After a hundred years, twenty missionaries stopped the influencing and the musicians sang again.
	Ka e·n e aka tsume·no pa Tsamoa patson Tu·fau komɛ exɔke kix. PST man PL who converts of samoa set.off.to Tuvalu and wander.around there Ka e·n e aka tsume·no utsu ixi ʔe kasɔ, PST man PL who converts influence person PL because, Ka esa ʔe ie uxone teta esa ʔe pa ana pa tetame·no Tu·fau petsi. PST 3 PL start forget tradition 3 PL of music of belief.system Tuvalu therefore Isa inei ko tseki ixi ko in aka tsume·no ue utsu komɛ ihi ʔihi ixi ʔe pa ana anaus. FUT year 4.times 25 man 4.times 5 who converts stop influence and again people PL of music sing.

Usʔa pa kas by Sascha

Usʔa pa kas

English

Ka e·n e aka tsume·no pa Tsamoa patson Tu·fau komɛ exɔke kix. Ka e·n e aka tsume·no utsu ixi ʔe kasɔ, ka esa ʔe ie uxone teta esa ʔe pa ana pa tetame·no Tu·fau petsi. Isa inei ko tseki ixi ko in aka tsume·no ue utsu komɛ ihi ʔihi ixi ʔe pa ana anaus.

The Samoan missionaries went to Tuvalu and wandered about. The missionaries were influencing people, so they started to forget the musical traditions relating to the Tuvaluan belief system. After a hundred years, twenty missionaries stopped the influencing and the musicians sang again.

Ka e·n e aka tsume·no pa Tsamoa patson Tu·fau komɛ exɔke kix.
PST man PL who converts of samoa set.off.to Tuvalu and wander.around there

Ka e·n e aka tsume·no utsu ixi ʔe kasɔ,
PST man PL who converts influence person PL because,

Ka esa ʔe ie uxone teta esa ʔe pa ana pa tetame·no Tu·fau petsi.
PST 3 PL start forget tradition 3 PL of music of belief.system Tuvalu therefore

Isa inei ko tseki ixi ko in aka tsume·no ue utsu komɛ ihi ʔihi ixi ʔe pa ana anaus.
FUT year 4.times 25 man 4.times 5 who converts stop influence and again people PL of music sing.

Lexicon

ana	n. music, v. make music
anaus	v. sing
aka	REL
(ʔ)e	PL
e·n	n. man
esa	prn. 3rd person
exɔke	v. wander about
ie	v. start, begin
ihi ʔihi	adv. again
in	num. five
inei	n. year
isa	FUT
ixi	n. person
pa	of
patson	v. set off to (usually by sea)
petsi	conj. therefore
teta	n-poss. tradition
tetame·no	n-poss. belief system, religion
Tsamoa	Samoa
tseki	num. 25
tsume·no	v. convert
Tu·fau	Tuvalu
ka	PST
ko	num. four times
kasɔ	conj. because
kix	dem. there (distal)
komɛ	conj. and
ue	v. stop, end
utsu	v./n. influence
uxone	v. forget

Grammar

Word order (affirmative clause): Time Subject Verb (Voice) (Direct Object) (Indirect Object) (Place) (Manner) (Other)

Some nouns are mandatorily possessed (glossed as n-poss). With these nouns, the possessor immediately follows the noun (no inflectional marking like plural is applied to the possessor). The particle pa otherwise connects a noun phrase to its possessor, or sometimes an attribute of sorts.

Word order (noun/postpositional phrase): Noun (mandatory possessor) (number) (adjective(s)) (relative clause headed) (Non-obligatory possessor) (postposition)

In subordinated or coordinated clauses, the time is omitted if it's identical to the main clause.