Showing posts with label itunyoso. Show all posts
Showing posts with label itunyoso. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

On the trail of accusative in Itunyoso Triqui

Copala Triqui makes very frequent use of man  as an accusative marker.  But does Itunyoso Triqui have an accusative or not?

The Itunyoso Triqui cognate seems to be man'an.  In some uses it seems very much like an accusative:

Mark 1:36

But compare the next sentence in this passage, where man'an does not precede the object pronoun:

Mark 1:37
There is apparently an interesting difference between Itunyoso and Copala in this respect, since in Copala man would be obligatory before the object pronoun.

Compare the same passage in Copala Triqui:

 they said to him 'everyone is looking for you' " Mark 1:37"

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Itunyoso Triqui text on-line

I was pleased to see that there is some Itunyoso Triqui available online at this site, a bit of the translation of the book of James from the New Testament.  (I see that the whole Itunyoso Triqi testament is available as a PDF from some other sites, but they don't work for me, at least tonight.)  Because the same thing has been translated into Copala Triqui, I was curious to look at the similarities and differences.

Here is a bit of James 2 in Itunyoso and Copala Triqui:
Copala Triqui

Itunyoso Triqui


In a future post, I'll try to work out some sentence by sentence comparison.