Idi
Kingfisher, Photo Credit: Nick Evans
At the 2011 LSA Institute, Dr. Nick Evans led us through a four-week rapid exploration of Idi. The class produced a lexicon, a handful of texts, and a sketch grammar.
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Wasang Baiio (Idi speaker) and Fieldworkers: Nick Evans, Oksana Tkachman, Kate Lindsey, Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada, and Laura Zester.
Wasang Baiio won the LSA award for Greatest Contribution to Linguistic Knowledge!
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Yarr (by Wasang Baiio)
Yare gle jén pa da ada gɭ walaŋgme néble walaŋgme dag walaŋgdume. La o məla niada walaŋgawa brndén o ʈəmŋgawa o do wəlaŋgme ne brndén o ʈəmŋgawa de bisi wəla gɭ yar ne méʎ bogen. Gəta adadada a da yəka de pendola a da idi qəɖle dwae dand o la jimi qəɖlira jén maema. Gəta dada yara pendola ni ʎiʎkwam wago. Gəta yəkadida pendanalə babom ʈona ada la jémi qəɖlira o yəka bisi walalo jén maeʈe. O jén la ŋaʈuŋ g̅édé qəɖélberən. Obene añka da irelu ne yara méʎ bogen, be gɭ waŋnoŋməndo dao qəɖél la bene añka. Eso debe.
Kingfisher (translation by Kate Lindsey)
The Kingfisher is another bird which you find in the forest and the tropical rain forest. When a man or woman goes to the forest or to the garden; they are in the forest or coming to the garden, when they hear the cry of the Kingfisher. It goes like this: this message reveals whether death is near or whether someone has died in another village. This is what the Kingfisher is saying when you get goose bumps. The information that the Kingfisher reveals is a message that a man has already died or that a message is coming from another village or that another man who has died long ago is near. His spirit is near and you will recall the spirit of the dead person. Thank you. The end.
Yare gle jén pa da ada gɭ walaŋgme néble walaŋgme dag walaŋgdume. La o məla niada walaŋgawa brndén o ʈəmŋgawa o do wəlaŋgme ne brndén o ʈəmŋgawa de bisi wəla gɭ yar ne méʎ bogen. Gəta adadada a da yəka de pendola a da idi qəɖle dwae dand o la jimi qəɖlira jén maema. Gəta dada yara pendola ni ʎiʎkwam wago. Gəta yəkadida pendanalə babom ʈona ada la jémi qəɖlira o yəka bisi walalo jén maeʈe. O jén la ŋaʈuŋ g̅édé qəɖélberən. Obene añka da irelu ne yara méʎ bogen, be gɭ waŋnoŋməndo dao qəɖél la bene añka. Eso debe.
Kingfisher (translation by Kate Lindsey)
The Kingfisher is another bird which you find in the forest and the tropical rain forest. When a man or woman goes to the forest or to the garden; they are in the forest or coming to the garden, when they hear the cry of the Kingfisher. It goes like this: this message reveals whether death is near or whether someone has died in another village. This is what the Kingfisher is saying when you get goose bumps. The information that the Kingfisher reveals is a message that a man has already died or that a message is coming from another village or that another man who has died long ago is near. His spirit is near and you will recall the spirit of the dead person. Thank you. The end.
