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Title: Num kasha hte hpyi hpai a lam (The Girl Reborn as a Turtle) with English translation

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Bibliographic Citation: Keita Kurabe (collector), Keita Kurabe (depositor), Gareng Laga Kung Hpan (speaker), 2019. Num kasha hte hpyi hpai a lam (The Girl Reborn as a Turtle) with English translation. EAF+XML/MPEG/WAV. KK1-2316 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/5fa178140bc19

Contributor (compiler): Keita Kurabe

Contributor (depositor): Keita Kurabe

Contributor (speaker): Gareng Laga Kung Hpan

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Date (W3CDTF): 2019-01-29

Date Created (W3CDTF): 2019-01-29

Description: Translation (Rita Seng Mai) Once upon a time, there was a man with two wives in a village. One of his wives was a good woman, while the other was a witch. Each of them had a daughter. One day, the king's son, the prince, was of the right age to get married, so the king called all the girls in the country for the prince's consort selection. The king and the prince were checking all the ladies' fabrics. The ladies competed with each other over who would marry the prince. The daughters of the witch and the good woman also went to the selection. The father sided with the witch and favored her because he was afraid of her. He did not care for his first wife and daughter. The first wife and her daughter had to prepare everything by themselves as much as they could. She knew how to weave and taught her daughter. (We used to use "Shingkyit," a fabric belt, in the past, but now we only see it used during traditional dance festivals.) The daughter wove a belt with beautiful patterns and went to the selection. The king and the prince saw her coming in with that belt. The king asked the ladies what gifts they had brought. The ladies said that they had brought precious things. However, when the king asked that girl, she said, "I cannot afford to give valuable things. I am very poor, so I made this belt using scraps of cloth. I wove it with the weaving skills that my mother taught me." The other ladies brought many different kinds of valuable things as marriage gifts. "Ri Htawng" means pieces of thread. Then the king chose the girl to be the prince's consort. The girl moved into the palace from that day on. While living in the palace, she wove many kinds of clothes and bags. ("Htawng Hkun" is a kind of bag that our elders used to carry long ago, though it is no longer used today.) Meanwhile, the witch wanted her daughter to marry the prince and live in the palace. Her daughter was not married yet. She thought of a plan and said to herself, "I will do anything to get my daughter married to the prince." One day, the witch called her stepdaughter to their house. The witch was sitting in the kitchen, boiling water in a kettle, while her own daughter was in the room. When her stepdaughter arrived, she said to her, "My daughter, the prince's wife, help me look for lice in my hair." She bent her head and said to her stepdaughter. The stepdaughter was looking for lice in her stepmother's hair. Soon, the stepmother said to her, "Comb my hair with this comb." A few minutes after the girl began combing her stepmother's hair, the stepmother said, "Give me that comb." The stepmother took the comb and dropped it through the gaps in the bamboo floor to the ground. And she told her, "Go pick up the comb." When the prince's wife went beneath the house to pick up the comb, the stepmother poured boiling water on her and killed her. She took the princess's attire and made her own daughter wear it. Then she sent her to the palace. When the witch's daughter lived in the palace, she did not weave at all because she did not know how. The king doubted and said, "She wears the same attire, but she is not the same as before." He was unhappy with the thought. He was wondering why things felt wrong. The innocent girl who died was reborn as a turtle. Later, the witch's daughter fell ill and craved turtle meat. Then the witch sent people to capture the turtle. The turtle's mother warned it, "If they search upstream, go downstream. If they go downstream, flee upstream." Then, the witch's people came to catch the turtle. Her men surrounded both the upstream and downstream. In the end, they caught it. The witch and her daughter thought of eating the turtle. The witch was pleased and relieved that her daughter was finally living in the palace as the prince's wife. The turtle was cooked with gourds. Because the turtle was the girl reincarnated, it cried out in a human voice while being cooked with gourds. Then they knew that something was not right, so they threw the dish away. Later, the gourd seeds sprouted and grew into plants. The plants grew in the widow's family's field and later bore gourds. Then the family picked it up and cooked it. Not long after eating it, the widow became pregnant, and the girl who had been killed by the witch was reborn in her womb. Like in a fairytale, the baby grew up very quickly and became an adult. She vividly regained all the memories of how she had been treated in her past life. She remembered how she had been bullied and killed. The witch's daughter couldn't weave the traditional bags that the reincarnated girl had woven before she died. The witch's daughter wore the exact same clothes and pretended to be the real princess, but she couldn't fake her weaving skills. The king said, "This isn't right. We must finish weaving these." Then he gathered the ladies from the country again. The reincarnated girl arrived at the selection wearing the same belt she had worn in the past. It seemed like she knew how to weave since she was born. The king checked the belt as he had done before, and the girl spoke exactly as she had in the past. Then the king said, "It is you." After that, the girl lived in the palace once again. She finished all the weaving she had left unfinished before she died. And she explained what had happened to her to the king. She said to the king, "That girl is the daughter of the witch." The witch's daughter wore a ring that her mother had given her. The king was furious after learning what had happened to the innocent girl. He said, "They have gone too far! How dare they deceive me!" Then he killed the witch's daughter and ground her flesh into paste. It was sent to the witch. The witch knew nothing about what had happened. Delighted, she thought, "Even when my stepdaughter was in the palace, I never received gifts like this. Now that my own daughter is there, I can finally enjoy such delicious food." As she was about to finish eating the paste, she found the ring inside. Only then did she realize that it was her daughter's flesh, ground into paste. She died of a broken heart. It is not good to do bad things. If you do something bad, it will eventually be revealed one day. This story is about how wrongdoing will eventually be revealed. Transcription (La Ring) Moi.. shawng de da kahtawng langai kaw e num lahkawng lu ai la langai mi nga ai da. Nga... rai yang she ndai e la wa gaw langai gaw num kaja hpe la ai da. E num langai wa gaw hpyihpai jan ngu ai hpyi su ai jan le i hpyi lu ai hpyihpai jan hpe e la ai da. Shan gaw e kasha num kasha langai hpra lu ai da. Lu.. rai yang gaw e lani mi na nhtoi hta gaw shanhte na mung Du e Hkaw Hkam wa gaw Hkaw Hkam wa a kasha gaw dinghku de ram re majaw e grai.. shayi mahkawn hkawn sek ni yawng hpe shaga la nna e shanhte bu hpun ai rida maka hpe e yu ai, yu ai.. da. Rai yang gaw grai... sumraw nna yawng gaw yawng gaw dai kaw nga ai mare na mahkawn ni dai kaw yawng.. sa ma ai da. Dai "Ngai she wa lu na, ngai she wa lu na" nga nna dai Hkaw Hkam kasha kaw wa na matu kashun kashe dai hku wa du ai da. Rai yang ndai hpyihpai jan kasha yan e dai masha kaja ngu ga le dai jan ma lawm ai da. Lawm.. rai yang gaw ndai la wa mung grau gaw dai hpyihpyi jan maga lawm na hku rai nga, hkrit mung hkrit majaw dai num kaja jan kaw gaw nau pa nlawm rai yang gaw, shan gaw kanu hte e byin mai ai hku.. sha dai hku sha nga ai hku rai nga. Nga nga re ten hta e ndai kanu kaja jan gaw rida maka chye nna kasha hpe e sharin ya ai.. da. Sharin ya.. rai yang gaw yawng.. gaw sa nna hpang jahtum gaw dai masha kaja jan a kasha hpe e dai shingkyit ngu ai e moi gaw grai kyit ai le i ya gaw htawngka hkan sha mu ai shingkyit ngu, dai shingkyit shi nan kanu sharin ya ai rida maka hte e da nna shingkyit grai.. tsawm ai maka hte e lung wa ai hpe e mu ai.. da. Rai yang Hkaw Hkam wa gaw san ai dai "Kade jaw sai, hpa jaw sai" htaw ra ni gaw manu hku tsun tsun tsun rai yang gaw hpang jahtum na ndai jan gaw "E.. ngai gaw manu jaw na gumhpraw matsan ai, dai majaw ri htawng ngu ai dai nba da yang ngam ai i ngam ai hpe e zen da ai ri dai ni hpe e matut la.. rai nna Nu sharin ya ai maka da bang nna ngai chyu ngai da ai re, mari na matu ja gumhpraw nlu ai" ngu ai da. Wo ra shawng kaw na ni gaw grai tsawm ai htap ai law law dai ni gaw ja gumhpraw hte e mari ai da. Rai yang gaw dai Hkaw Hkam wa gaw ndai shayi sha tsun ai ri htawng hte e, ri htawng ngu gaw dai ri kadun kadaw hpe e matut nna da ai ngu ga rai nga. Ning re re ngu ai dai jan hpe e lata la ma ai da. Lata la.. rai yang gaw grai dai shani kaw na gaw ya Hkaw Hkam hkaw kaw du.. rai yang gaw e.. lani hte lani shi gaw Hkaw Hkam wang kaw nga nna rida maka da, e anhte Jinghpaw ni da ai htawng hkun ngu ai ya gaw nau nnga sai moi gaw htawng hkun ngu salang ni hpye hpye rai ai htawng hkun dai ni mung shi shi da rai Hkaw Hkam hkaw kaw dai hku nga.. nga rai yang gaw, hpang jahtum.. gaw ndai Hkaw Hkam wang kaw nga ai shi a kasha ngu na hpe e hpyihpai jan gaw, hpyihpai jan a kasha gaw num mung nwa rai na dai hku nga rai yang hpyihpai jan gaw shi maw lanyet galaw nna "Hpami raitim htaw ra nye kasha jaw lu hkra dai Hkaw Hkam kasha kaw" ngu na shi myit ai. Myit.. rai yang gaw lani mi na nhtoi hta e dai kasha hpe e shaga la, shaga hkrai shaga majaw kanu ji ngu na kaw e sa ai.. da. Sa yang gaw e kasha gaw e gawk kaw nga, kanu gaw dumnu ngu ai dai dumnu kaw e hka hpumlum mung shadu.. rai nna nga ai da. Rai yang gaw .. "Ngai sha e Hkaw Hkam jan e Anu hpe e dai, tsi yu ya rit" ngu moi gaw tsi ngu ai baw hta i ndai tsi grai nga ai rai nga, "Tsi yu ya rit dai baw baw gum di nga ai" da. Rai yang gaw dai Hkaw Hkam kasha na madu jan gaw tsi yu... kanu ngu na hpe e hpyihpai jan hpe tsi yu di nga. Rai yang gaw ya loi hkring gaw kara masit ya rit ngu pasi bai jaw. Rai yang kara ni masit ya masit ya rai yang gaw ya loi hkring gaw "La yu u" ngu na dasang shi maw nna pasi hpe e chying hkyen hku de e dai pasi hpe jahkrat kau ai da. Jahkrat kau nna "E..ya pasi hkrat sai, le pasi hta su" ngu hku rai nga. "Hta su" ngu yang gaw bai kanu gaw dai kasha Hkaw Hkam kasha a madu jan dai npu de pasi hta yu yang hka hpumlum hte kalang ta jaw nna dai kaw e sat kau ai.. da ndai Hkaw Hkam kasha kaw wa ai kasha hpe e. Rai na she shi kasha hpe e mi htaw kaw na Hkaw Hkam hkaw kaw na sa ai masha wa a kasha na hpun palawng yawng jahpun nna, shi hpe jaw ai...shi hpe jahpun nna Hkaw Hkam hkaw de bai shawawn ai da. Rai yang gaw htaw kaw du yang gaw hpa.. mi na jan hpun palawng gaw mi na jan raitim hpa bungli bai galaw nchye, galaw nchye re majaw dai Hkaw Hkam wa gaw "Ga.. hpun palawng bung tim mi na wa hte nbung sai" ngu nna grai.. myit npyaw di nga ai da. Grai myit npyaw di nga rai yang gaw "Ah.. kaning re i" ngu na myit npyaw di nga rai yang gaw, hpang jahtum gaw ndai e kanu ngu na gaw ndai wa gaw ndai jan gaw htaw.. hpang jahtum e shi hpan hte hpan paw pru paw pru rai na dai tau byen tai ai da. Tau byen ngu ai tau gu tau byen tai rai yang gaw "Bai ya e, ya bai kalang mi bai ndai jan bai machyi, machyi yang gaw kasha gaw tau byen shan sha mayu ai" bai nga wa da. Tau byen shan sha mayu ai nga dai gaw, bai dai tau byen shan dai hpe e kaga wa "E hkanam de dim yang hkahku de, hkahku de dim yang hkanam de hprawng u" ngu nna bai tsun rai yang gaw hpang jahtum gaw ndai gaw e dai hpyihpai jan a salung sala ni hka dim sha.. rai yang gaw, ndai tau byen ndai gaw hkahku de gat tim shi hpe hkwi na masha, hkanam de kagat tim shi hpe hkwi na masha dai hku nga re da. Nga rai yang gaw hpang jahtum gaw e dai e hpe e lu rim ai da. Lu rim nna ndai jan gaw e shadu sha, shadu na matu shi myit da.. rai yang gaw myit da rai yang gaw ndai hpyihpai jan, hpyihpai jan gaw ya gaw hpami raitim nye kasha dai hku jaw sai nga na dai hku myit pyaw ai. Myit pyaw di nga rai yang gaw hpang jahtum gaw tau byen dai gaw e shan tai, tau kawk.. tau kawk hte bai ndai tau byen shan hte i ndai tau dwi si, tauba si le i ndai sha ai.. da. Ndai hte shadu sha yang gaw "Koi dai ashe nga yang, ga bai amyu myu ngoi wa da e, ga bai amyu myu ngoi wa". Rai yang gaw ndai mi shinggyim masha a ashan nang ai majaw le i dai nsen pru wa ai da. Nsen pru wa rai yang gaw "E.. dan nga ai gaw e nrai sa" ngu na she si dai wa le tsan tsan de le wang wo ra de hkaw di rap" di ai da. Hkaw di rap di jang gaw ndai si pa kaw na mi ndai tauba si ndai kaw na bai shi hkrai shi e tu wa ai da. Tu kaba wa rai, tu kaba wa rai yang gaw e dinghku gaida dinghku langai kaw le i ndai sun kaw e dai hku ru da ai majaw dai tu wa rai yang, shi hkrai shi dai tu rai nna gaw yat loi hkring gaw tauba si bai noi. Noi yang gaw tauba si dai bai ndai nta masha ni shadu sha ai da. Shadu sha.. rai yang gaw kade nna yang dai dum nta kaw e mi.. ndai hpyihpai jan e sat ai hkawn sek kasha e na-um nasin tai nna bai paw pru ai hku rai nga. Paw pru rai na jahkring mi, ngu ga nga yang maumwi gaw dai minta zat lan hpa le i, ning si ning prawn prawn rai di kaba wa ai.. da. Kaba wa rai yang gaw ndai hkawn sek bai mi.. shi hpe galaw ai ni wa yawng.. shi hta e dum wa ai da dai shi hpe e kaning di ai shi hpe e kaning di ai, kaning di na kade daram zingri ai kading di sat ai nga ni yawng dum wa ai da. Dum wa.. rai yang gaw mi shi da da ai htawng hkun ngu ai pajung payan ngu ni i ndai ni gaw ndai hpyihpai jan a kasha gaw nlu da ai hku rai nga, nchye da ai hku rai nga. Dai hku nan tawn da, hpun palawng ni gaw mi na raw mi san tim dai bungli maga gaw dan re re majaw "Bai ya dai jan gaw nbyin sai, mi shawng na jan dai e na rida maka ni shakre ra sai" ngu nna Hkaw Hkam wa bai kalang bai dai kaw na e mahkawn ni hpe shaga la da. Shaga.. la rai yang gaw dai yang mung moi.. dai Hkaw Hkam hkaw kaw e da yang na bu ai shingkyit zawn.. di nna bai shi rida maka dai gaida e le dai jahkrai dum nta i matsan ai dinghku hta e dan rai shi mung mi kaw na pingu ngu ga le i shi hkrai shi chye wa ai. Dai hku na bai kalang mi bai sa wa ai.. da. Sa wa yang gaw mi na hte maren Hkaw Hkam wa gaw jep jep jep rai yang gaw mi na ga hte raw.. nga bai dai shayi sha gaw bai tsun ai da. Tsun yang gaw "Bai.. e ya hpami raitim nang rai sai" ngu na kalang bai Hkaw Hkam htingnu de bai kalang bai du ai da. Du.. rai yang gaw mi shi da da ai rida maka dai ni yawng.. bai shi da ai majaw "E.. dai mabyin masa, kaning re re" ngu dai mung mi byin wa ai lam ni i "Ngai hpe ningdi ningdi nna ning di ai re, dai shayi sha ya le.. hpyihpai jan Anu a kasha re" ngu na atsawm.. sha tsun ai da. Tsun jang gaw dai hpyihpai jan ngu na kasha hkawn sek ndai kaw gaw kanu e lachyawp langai mi shachyawp da ya ai da. E dai mi chyawm gaw hkrat sai le i, lachyawp langai mi shachyawp ya ai hku rai nga. Rai yang gaw "Aw.. dai wa nau ladu lai sai" nga nna she dai Hkaw Hkam wa gaw kanu ngu na dai hpe kani ngu na hpe e "Ngai hpe dan di i" ngu yawng.. dai anhte gaw chyahkyi banau nga le i dai hku ndum hte e sat nna dai hku bai le.. kanu hpe e shagun ya ai da. Shagun ya.. rai yang gaw "Koi moi na jan Hkaw Hkam jan e nye kasha raitim moi shawng jan na kasha du yang gaw ndai baw nlu shagun ai, nlu jaw sha ai ya ngai kasha wa na she ndai hku lu lu lu sha ai nga" grai kabu ai da. Shi gaw hpang jahtum htum ni maga gaw mi shi jaw ya ai lachyawp ndai lawm ai.. da. Rai yang she "Aw.. ngai kasha re hka i" nga na shi mung sinda adup nna i si mat ai.. da. Nkaja ai bungli galaw yang hpami raitim lani mi hta e dawng ai. Nkaja ai bungli gaw galaw yang nhkrak ai, nkaja ai. "E tinang galaw ai mahtai gaw lani mi dan dawng ai" nga ai maumwi re. . Language as given: Jinghpaw

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Title:		Num kasha hte hpyi hpai a lam (The Girl Reborn as a Turtle) with English translation
Access Rights:		Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Bibliographic Citation:		Keita Kurabe (collector), Keita Kurabe (depositor), Gareng Laga Kung Hpan (speaker), 2019. Num kasha hte hpyi hpai a lam (The Girl Reborn as a Turtle) with English translation. EAF+XML/MPEG/WAV. KK1-2316 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/5fa178140bc19
Contributor (compiler):		Keita Kurabe
Contributor (depositor):		Keita Kurabe
Contributor (speaker):		Gareng Laga Kung Hpan
Coverage (Box):		northlimit=27.331; southlimit=23.137; westlimit=95.335; eastlimit=98.498
Coverage (ISO3166):		MM
Date (W3CDTF):		2019-01-29
Date Created (W3CDTF):		2019-01-29
Description:		Translation (Rita Seng Mai) Once upon a time, there was a man with two wives in a village. One of his wives was a good woman, while the other was a witch. Each of them had a daughter. One day, the king's son, the prince, was of the right age to get married, so the king called all the girls in the country for the prince's consort selection. The king and the prince were checking all the ladies' fabrics. The ladies competed with each other over who would marry the prince. The daughters of the witch and the good woman also went to the selection. The father sided with the witch and favored her because he was afraid of her. He did not care for his first wife and daughter. The first wife and her daughter had to prepare everything by themselves as much as they could. She knew how to weave and taught her daughter. (We used to use "Shingkyit," a fabric belt, in the past, but now we only see it used during traditional dance festivals.) The daughter wove a belt with beautiful patterns and went to the selection. The king and the prince saw her coming in with that belt. The king asked the ladies what gifts they had brought. The ladies said that they had brought precious things. However, when the king asked that girl, she said, "I cannot afford to give valuable things. I am very poor, so I made this belt using scraps of cloth. I wove it with the weaving skills that my mother taught me." The other ladies brought many different kinds of valuable things as marriage gifts. "Ri Htawng" means pieces of thread. Then the king chose the girl to be the prince's consort. The girl moved into the palace from that day on. While living in the palace, she wove many kinds of clothes and bags. ("Htawng Hkun" is a kind of bag that our elders used to carry long ago, though it is no longer used today.) Meanwhile, the witch wanted her daughter to marry the prince and live in the palace. Her daughter was not married yet. She thought of a plan and said to herself, "I will do anything to get my daughter married to the prince." One day, the witch called her stepdaughter to their house. The witch was sitting in the kitchen, boiling water in a kettle, while her own daughter was in the room. When her stepdaughter arrived, she said to her, "My daughter, the prince's wife, help me look for lice in my hair." She bent her head and said to her stepdaughter. The stepdaughter was looking for lice in her stepmother's hair. Soon, the stepmother said to her, "Comb my hair with this comb." A few minutes after the girl began combing her stepmother's hair, the stepmother said, "Give me that comb." The stepmother took the comb and dropped it through the gaps in the bamboo floor to the ground. And she told her, "Go pick up the comb." When the prince's wife went beneath the house to pick up the comb, the stepmother poured boiling water on her and killed her. She took the princess's attire and made her own daughter wear it. Then she sent her to the palace. When the witch's daughter lived in the palace, she did not weave at all because she did not know how. The king doubted and said, "She wears the same attire, but she is not the same as before." He was unhappy with the thought. He was wondering why things felt wrong. The innocent girl who died was reborn as a turtle. Later, the witch's daughter fell ill and craved turtle meat. Then the witch sent people to capture the turtle. The turtle's mother warned it, "If they search upstream, go downstream. If they go downstream, flee upstream." Then, the witch's people came to catch the turtle. Her men surrounded both the upstream and downstream. In the end, they caught it. The witch and her daughter thought of eating the turtle. The witch was pleased and relieved that her daughter was finally living in the palace as the prince's wife. The turtle was cooked with gourds. Because the turtle was the girl reincarnated, it cried out in a human voice while being cooked with gourds. Then they knew that something was not right, so they threw the dish away. Later, the gourd seeds sprouted and grew into plants. The plants grew in the widow's family's field and later bore gourds. Then the family picked it up and cooked it. Not long after eating it, the widow became pregnant, and the girl who had been killed by the witch was reborn in her womb. Like in a fairytale, the baby grew up very quickly and became an adult. She vividly regained all the memories of how she had been treated in her past life. She remembered how she had been bullied and killed. The witch's daughter couldn't weave the traditional bags that the reincarnated girl had woven before she died. The witch's daughter wore the exact same clothes and pretended to be the real princess, but she couldn't fake her weaving skills. The king said, "This isn't right. We must finish weaving these." Then he gathered the ladies from the country again. The reincarnated girl arrived at the selection wearing the same belt she had worn in the past. It seemed like she knew how to weave since she was born. The king checked the belt as he had done before, and the girl spoke exactly as she had in the past. Then the king said, "It is you." After that, the girl lived in the palace once again. She finished all the weaving she had left unfinished before she died. And she explained what had happened to her to the king. She said to the king, "That girl is the daughter of the witch." The witch's daughter wore a ring that her mother had given her. The king was furious after learning what had happened to the innocent girl. He said, "They have gone too far! How dare they deceive me!" Then he killed the witch's daughter and ground her flesh into paste. It was sent to the witch. The witch knew nothing about what had happened. Delighted, she thought, "Even when my stepdaughter was in the palace, I never received gifts like this. Now that my own daughter is there, I can finally enjoy such delicious food." As she was about to finish eating the paste, she found the ring inside. Only then did she realize that it was her daughter's flesh, ground into paste. She died of a broken heart. It is not good to do bad things. If you do something bad, it will eventually be revealed one day. This story is about how wrongdoing will eventually be revealed. Transcription (La Ring) Moi.. shawng de da kahtawng langai kaw e num lahkawng lu ai la langai mi nga ai da. Nga... rai yang she ndai e la wa gaw langai gaw num kaja hpe la ai da. E num langai wa gaw hpyihpai jan ngu ai hpyi su ai jan le i hpyi lu ai hpyihpai jan hpe e la ai da. Shan gaw e kasha num kasha langai hpra lu ai da. Lu.. rai yang gaw e lani mi na nhtoi hta gaw shanhte na mung Du e Hkaw Hkam wa gaw Hkaw Hkam wa a kasha gaw dinghku de ram re majaw e grai.. shayi mahkawn hkawn sek ni yawng hpe shaga la nna e shanhte bu hpun ai rida maka hpe e yu ai, yu ai.. da. Rai yang gaw grai... sumraw nna yawng gaw yawng gaw dai kaw nga ai mare na mahkawn ni dai kaw yawng.. sa ma ai da. Dai "Ngai she wa lu na, ngai she wa lu na" nga nna dai Hkaw Hkam kasha kaw wa na matu kashun kashe dai hku wa du ai da. Rai yang ndai hpyihpai jan kasha yan e dai masha kaja ngu ga le dai jan ma lawm ai da. Lawm.. rai yang gaw ndai la wa mung grau gaw dai hpyihpyi jan maga lawm na hku rai nga, hkrit mung hkrit majaw dai num kaja jan kaw gaw nau pa nlawm rai yang gaw, shan gaw kanu hte e byin mai ai hku.. sha dai hku sha nga ai hku rai nga. Nga nga re ten hta e ndai kanu kaja jan gaw rida maka chye nna kasha hpe e sharin ya ai.. da. Sharin ya.. rai yang gaw yawng.. gaw sa nna hpang jahtum gaw dai masha kaja jan a kasha hpe e dai shingkyit ngu ai e moi gaw grai kyit ai le i ya gaw htawngka hkan sha mu ai shingkyit ngu, dai shingkyit shi nan kanu sharin ya ai rida maka hte e da nna shingkyit grai.. tsawm ai maka hte e lung wa ai hpe e mu ai.. da. Rai yang Hkaw Hkam wa gaw san ai dai "Kade jaw sai, hpa jaw sai" htaw ra ni gaw manu hku tsun tsun tsun rai yang gaw hpang jahtum na ndai jan gaw "E.. ngai gaw manu jaw na gumhpraw matsan ai, dai majaw ri htawng ngu ai dai nba da yang ngam ai i ngam ai hpe e zen da ai ri dai ni hpe e matut la.. rai nna Nu sharin ya ai maka da bang nna ngai chyu ngai da ai re, mari na matu ja gumhpraw nlu ai" ngu ai da. Wo ra shawng kaw na ni gaw grai tsawm ai htap ai law law dai ni gaw ja gumhpraw hte e mari ai da. Rai yang gaw dai Hkaw Hkam wa gaw ndai shayi sha tsun ai ri htawng hte e, ri htawng ngu gaw dai ri kadun kadaw hpe e matut nna da ai ngu ga rai nga. Ning re re ngu ai dai jan hpe e lata la ma ai da. Lata la.. rai yang gaw grai dai shani kaw na gaw ya Hkaw Hkam hkaw kaw du.. rai yang gaw e.. lani hte lani shi gaw Hkaw Hkam wang kaw nga nna rida maka da, e anhte Jinghpaw ni da ai htawng hkun ngu ai ya gaw nau nnga sai moi gaw htawng hkun ngu salang ni hpye hpye rai ai htawng hkun dai ni mung shi shi da rai Hkaw Hkam hkaw kaw dai hku nga.. nga rai yang gaw, hpang jahtum.. gaw ndai Hkaw Hkam wang kaw nga ai shi a kasha ngu na hpe e hpyihpai jan gaw, hpyihpai jan a kasha gaw num mung nwa rai na dai hku nga rai yang hpyihpai jan gaw shi maw lanyet galaw nna "Hpami raitim htaw ra nye kasha jaw lu hkra dai Hkaw Hkam kasha kaw" ngu na shi myit ai. Myit.. rai yang gaw lani mi na nhtoi hta e dai kasha hpe e shaga la, shaga hkrai shaga majaw kanu ji ngu na kaw e sa ai.. da. Sa yang gaw e kasha gaw e gawk kaw nga, kanu gaw dumnu ngu ai dai dumnu kaw e hka hpumlum mung shadu.. rai nna nga ai da. Rai yang gaw .. "Ngai sha e Hkaw Hkam jan e Anu hpe e dai, tsi yu ya rit" ngu moi gaw tsi ngu ai baw hta i ndai tsi grai nga ai rai nga, "Tsi yu ya rit dai baw baw gum di nga ai" da. Rai yang gaw dai Hkaw Hkam kasha na madu jan gaw tsi yu... kanu ngu na hpe e hpyihpai jan hpe tsi yu di nga. Rai yang gaw ya loi hkring gaw kara masit ya rit ngu pasi bai jaw. Rai yang kara ni masit ya masit ya rai yang gaw ya loi hkring gaw "La yu u" ngu na dasang shi maw nna pasi hpe e chying hkyen hku de e dai pasi hpe jahkrat kau ai da. Jahkrat kau nna "E..ya pasi hkrat sai, le pasi hta su" ngu hku rai nga. "Hta su" ngu yang gaw bai kanu gaw dai kasha Hkaw Hkam kasha a madu jan dai npu de pasi hta yu yang hka hpumlum hte kalang ta jaw nna dai kaw e sat kau ai.. da ndai Hkaw Hkam kasha kaw wa ai kasha hpe e. Rai na she shi kasha hpe e mi htaw kaw na Hkaw Hkam hkaw kaw na sa ai masha wa a kasha na hpun palawng yawng jahpun nna, shi hpe jaw ai...shi hpe jahpun nna Hkaw Hkam hkaw de bai shawawn ai da. Rai yang gaw htaw kaw du yang gaw hpa.. mi na jan hpun palawng gaw mi na jan raitim hpa bungli bai galaw nchye, galaw nchye re majaw dai Hkaw Hkam wa gaw "Ga.. hpun palawng bung tim mi na wa hte nbung sai" ngu nna grai.. myit npyaw di nga ai da. Grai myit npyaw di nga rai yang gaw "Ah.. kaning re i" ngu na myit npyaw di nga rai yang gaw, hpang jahtum gaw ndai e kanu ngu na gaw ndai wa gaw ndai jan gaw htaw.. hpang jahtum e shi hpan hte hpan paw pru paw pru rai na dai tau byen tai ai da. Tau byen ngu ai tau gu tau byen tai rai yang gaw "Bai ya e, ya bai kalang mi bai ndai jan bai machyi, machyi yang gaw kasha gaw tau byen shan sha mayu ai" bai nga wa da. Tau byen shan sha mayu ai nga dai gaw, bai dai tau byen shan dai hpe e kaga wa "E hkanam de dim yang hkahku de, hkahku de dim yang hkanam de hprawng u" ngu nna bai tsun rai yang gaw hpang jahtum gaw ndai gaw e dai hpyihpai jan a salung sala ni hka dim sha.. rai yang gaw, ndai tau byen ndai gaw hkahku de gat tim shi hpe hkwi na masha, hkanam de kagat tim shi hpe hkwi na masha dai hku nga re da. Nga rai yang gaw hpang jahtum gaw e dai e hpe e lu rim ai da. Lu rim nna ndai jan gaw e shadu sha, shadu na matu shi myit da.. rai yang gaw myit da rai yang gaw ndai hpyihpai jan, hpyihpai jan gaw ya gaw hpami raitim nye kasha dai hku jaw sai nga na dai hku myit pyaw ai. Myit pyaw di nga rai yang gaw hpang jahtum gaw tau byen dai gaw e shan tai, tau kawk.. tau kawk hte bai ndai tau byen shan hte i ndai tau dwi si, tauba si le i ndai sha ai.. da. Ndai hte shadu sha yang gaw "Koi dai ashe nga yang, ga bai amyu myu ngoi wa da e, ga bai amyu myu ngoi wa". Rai yang gaw ndai mi shinggyim masha a ashan nang ai majaw le i dai nsen pru wa ai da. Nsen pru wa rai yang gaw "E.. dan nga ai gaw e nrai sa" ngu na she si dai wa le tsan tsan de le wang wo ra de hkaw di rap" di ai da. Hkaw di rap di jang gaw ndai si pa kaw na mi ndai tauba si ndai kaw na bai shi hkrai shi e tu wa ai da. Tu kaba wa rai, tu kaba wa rai yang gaw e dinghku gaida dinghku langai kaw le i ndai sun kaw e dai hku ru da ai majaw dai tu wa rai yang, shi hkrai shi dai tu rai nna gaw yat loi hkring gaw tauba si bai noi. Noi yang gaw tauba si dai bai ndai nta masha ni shadu sha ai da. Shadu sha.. rai yang gaw kade nna yang dai dum nta kaw e mi.. ndai hpyihpai jan e sat ai hkawn sek kasha e na-um nasin tai nna bai paw pru ai hku rai nga. Paw pru rai na jahkring mi, ngu ga nga yang maumwi gaw dai minta zat lan hpa le i, ning si ning prawn prawn rai di kaba wa ai.. da. Kaba wa rai yang gaw ndai hkawn sek bai mi.. shi hpe galaw ai ni wa yawng.. shi hta e dum wa ai da dai shi hpe e kaning di ai shi hpe e kaning di ai, kaning di na kade daram zingri ai kading di sat ai nga ni yawng dum wa ai da. Dum wa.. rai yang gaw mi shi da da ai htawng hkun ngu ai pajung payan ngu ni i ndai ni gaw ndai hpyihpai jan a kasha gaw nlu da ai hku rai nga, nchye da ai hku rai nga. Dai hku nan tawn da, hpun palawng ni gaw mi na raw mi san tim dai bungli maga gaw dan re re majaw "Bai ya dai jan gaw nbyin sai, mi shawng na jan dai e na rida maka ni shakre ra sai" ngu nna Hkaw Hkam wa bai kalang bai dai kaw na e mahkawn ni hpe shaga la da. Shaga.. la rai yang gaw dai yang mung moi.. dai Hkaw Hkam hkaw kaw e da yang na bu ai shingkyit zawn.. di nna bai shi rida maka dai gaida e le dai jahkrai dum nta i matsan ai dinghku hta e dan rai shi mung mi kaw na pingu ngu ga le i shi hkrai shi chye wa ai. Dai hku na bai kalang mi bai sa wa ai.. da. Sa wa yang gaw mi na hte maren Hkaw Hkam wa gaw jep jep jep rai yang gaw mi na ga hte raw.. nga bai dai shayi sha gaw bai tsun ai da. Tsun yang gaw "Bai.. e ya hpami raitim nang rai sai" ngu na kalang bai Hkaw Hkam htingnu de bai kalang bai du ai da. Du.. rai yang gaw mi shi da da ai rida maka dai ni yawng.. bai shi da ai majaw "E.. dai mabyin masa, kaning re re" ngu dai mung mi byin wa ai lam ni i "Ngai hpe ningdi ningdi nna ning di ai re, dai shayi sha ya le.. hpyihpai jan Anu a kasha re" ngu na atsawm.. sha tsun ai da. Tsun jang gaw dai hpyihpai jan ngu na kasha hkawn sek ndai kaw gaw kanu e lachyawp langai mi shachyawp da ya ai da. E dai mi chyawm gaw hkrat sai le i, lachyawp langai mi shachyawp ya ai hku rai nga. Rai yang gaw "Aw.. dai wa nau ladu lai sai" nga nna she dai Hkaw Hkam wa gaw kanu ngu na dai hpe kani ngu na hpe e "Ngai hpe dan di i" ngu yawng.. dai anhte gaw chyahkyi banau nga le i dai hku ndum hte e sat nna dai hku bai le.. kanu hpe e shagun ya ai da. Shagun ya.. rai yang gaw "Koi moi na jan Hkaw Hkam jan e nye kasha raitim moi shawng jan na kasha du yang gaw ndai baw nlu shagun ai, nlu jaw sha ai ya ngai kasha wa na she ndai hku lu lu lu sha ai nga" grai kabu ai da. Shi gaw hpang jahtum htum ni maga gaw mi shi jaw ya ai lachyawp ndai lawm ai.. da. Rai yang she "Aw.. ngai kasha re hka i" nga na shi mung sinda adup nna i si mat ai.. da. Nkaja ai bungli galaw yang hpami raitim lani mi hta e dawng ai. Nkaja ai bungli gaw galaw yang nhkrak ai, nkaja ai. "E tinang galaw ai mahtai gaw lani mi dan dawng ai" nga ai maumwi re. . Language as given: Jinghpaw
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Citation:		Keita Kurabe (compiler); Keita Kurabe (depositor); Gareng Laga Kung Hpan (speaker). 2019. Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC).
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