Words of counsel for the Triqui people

Today we finished and sent off the final version of our occasional paper!

Nana̱ nagua̱n' rihaan nij síí chihaan'

Consejos para la gente Triqui

Words of counsel for the Triqui people

We spent the last year working with a native speaker of Copala Triqui on this.  He wrote the text himself in his language, and we worked to make the spelling uniform and to translate this in English and Spanish.  Because very few Triqui people know how to read and write their language, we had to work out consistent spellings for many words (using the previous work of Barbara Hollenbach on development of an orthography as a basis).

What we have finished at this stage is the ’community version’, intended primarily for Triquis.  We also should  have the ’linguist edition’, with interlinear glossing for the whole thing, along with introductions and notes, available fairly soon.

Here is an image of the cover

A PDF version is available at http://albany.academia.edu/GeorgeAaronBroadwell/Papers/1519735/Words_of_counsel_for_the_Triqui_people

The text is being published with an audio CD of the text in Copala Triqui, distributed through our Institute for Mesoamerican Studies at University at Albany.