Biba Tinilaikan Såkkan 🙂

På’go na såkkan malago’ yu’ na bei ekungok i finu’ Chamoru kada diha. Gof ya-hu i guinaha gi iyo-ña YouTube si Pale’ Eric sa’ siña manaitai yu’ mientras ha estoriåyi hit. Maolek para i appleng na talangå-hu siha 🙂 Taitai mås yanggen malago’ hao na pon taitai i pinilå-hu put este na estoria. Ekungok yan gosa!

Happy New Year 🙂

Every day this year I want to listen to the Chamorro language. I really like the content on Påle’ Eric’s YouTube channel because I can read while he tells us a story. It’s good for my slow ears 🙂 Read more if you want to read my translation of this story. Listen and enjoy!

And here is the link to his original post on his blog: https://paleric.blogspot.com/2022/09/mothers-milk.html

Chamorro	English
Kao un tungo’ i difunto?	Do you know the deceased?
Hu tungo’ håyi gui’ sa’ manbisinu ham gi annai mandikike’ ham.	I know who he is because we were neighbors when we were little.
Lao achokka’ ti gos amigu-hu gui’, menestet na bai hu fåtto gi entieriu-ña put otro na rason.	But although he wasn’t really my friend, it is necessary for me to come to his funeral for another reason.
Ya håfa enao?	And what is that?
Gi annai sais åños yu’, manhugåndo ham ni famagu’on gi tatten guma’ ya ha danche i matå-hu un pidåson kriståt annai mapannak un boteya ya måffak.	When I was six years old, us children played at the back of the house and my face was struck with a piece of glass when a bottle was hit and shattered.
På’go mafañågu i difuntu pues humånao si nanå-hu para as nanå-ña i difuntu para u fanayao leche ginen i sisu-ña si nanå-ña ya maåmte i matå-hu ni lechen i nana.	The deceased was born and so my mother went to the mother of the deceased to borrow milk from her breast, and my face was treated with the milk of the mother.
Pues hu dibidi i difuntu meggagai sa’ an ti mafañågu gui’ ti u gaileche si nanå-ña guihi na tiempo.	And so I am indebted to the deceased because if he was not born, his mother would not have had milk at that time.