Spoken Language and Text Corpora
Explains about a particular caterpillar and how it builds its cocoon Recorded by Nick Evans from Jimmy Nébni, near Bimadbn village, 11/9/2015
Butterfly Cocoon
I'll tell the story about this |
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this cocoon |
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should I speak in English or? |
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Nen? |
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kndr |
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The cocoon |
ge ymn wén san nne wer mrmb ym |
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it's a grub living in the leaves of trees |
yao mrmb pip ym e dnemne ym bä |
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it's not really a grub but it's like a ... |
bogr ym, bogr kitong |
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a caterpillar, a big caterpillar |
yna kndr pitas ym wén san geä ynete |
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this cocoon is able to feed on leaves |
wén san geä dibnga |
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when it finishes the leaves |
ä nnesne |
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it will come down |
yuwat a gnesrnga |
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it will come down |
paep bä yrnze mnegta |
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it will look for a place |
mng̅ toge geä yramte |
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where it can build a little house |
kndräm yande gn ge räms geä dapamnga wén.. wén kapewan bä dzärnga |
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When the cocoon-caterpillar starts to bulds its nest it will put it in the fork of a tree branch |
o ämb keseren |
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or some times |
wén krkp dgan ym gte bä dzärnga |
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where there is a crack in a hollow tree |
mng̅ sombes yärämng |
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it makes two nests |
kitong mng̅ prende yramte |
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it builds the big nest first |
yna kitong mng̅ kunzén aqa ämb mng̅ toge gte bä yramte |
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inside the big nest it will build another small nest inside |
yna mng̅ yétqén ä ym gn |
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that house's name is 'nest' |
kitong gn yramte prende |
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it builds the large nest first |
kunzn gs ymn korkorp gn toge yramte yna |
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inside there it will build a small nest |
kunzén korkorp gnan ä gelawanga meta dene ämbs srare o nambis |
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inside that small nest it will get inside and it will stay there for maybe one month or three |
sabat erengr |
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weeks |
yna nambis sabat kunzén yna kndr pip kr bä ymn |
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within these three weeks that cocoon will die inside |
wnde mikmik te bä gägärng̅nga |
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it will have turned into a larva |
mikmik gte ge ymn |
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that larva there |
ä ymn meta dene ämbs srare o nambis sabat |
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will be there for maybe a month or three weeks |
yna powa yna mikmik gägarng̅nga |
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after that the larva will change |
pangam gämtenga |
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and become a butterfly |
de yna pangam |
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That butterfly |
ä gtornga kndr e .. e yna gnngama |
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it will leave from its nest |
kunzn gs ym |
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inside there (that inner cocoon) |
dene yamis yna kitong gnngama ä gtornga ä nngaebnde |
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as well as from the big nest it will leave and fly away |
dene yamis pa.. ämb pangam |
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in the same way as other butterflies |
ynama bä yaogle |
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it gives birth / grows up |
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