Northern Pomo Phrasicon

wayʔe mo:w hint̪il jano janon bayimi
	wayʔe	mo:w	hint̪il	jano	jano	-n	ba-	-yi	-mi
	early	he	Indian	language	speak	-ing	mouth-	-stop	-emph.
he did stop speaking Northern Pomo long ago
EC

wayʔe mo:w hint̪il jano janon baye
	wayʔe	mo:w	hint̪il	jano	jano	-n	ba-	-ye
	early	he	Indian	language	speak	-ing	mouth-	-stop
he stopped speaking Northern Pomo long ago
EC

ʔa: k'o miʔ jano janon sha:nhamale
	ʔa:	k'o	miʔ	jano	jano	-n	sha:	-nha	-male
	I	not	your	language	speak	-ing	know	-not	-could
I cannot speak your language I do not know how to speak your language
ES

miʔ janona:m ʔa: k'o sha:nha
	miʔ	jano	-na:m	ʔa:	k'o	sha:	-nha
	your	language	-the	I	not	know	-not
I do not know your language
ES

ʔa: k'o miʔ janona:m sha:nha
	ʔa:	k'o	miʔ	jano	-na:m	sha:	-nha
	I	not	your	language	-the	know	-not
I do not know your language (2)
ES

du: jano janon daʔadin meʔ ma mu:l haba: t̪'oxale na

du:

jano

-n

daʔa

-di

-n

meʔ

mu:l

haba:

t̪'o

-xale

other

language

speak

-ing

want

-present

-ing

char.

you

that

tongue

suck

-should

if you want to speak another language, you have to suck tongues
Edna said, “Old Indian women would say that to us all the time. We’d make a remark about not being able to understand another dialect and we’d laugh at the old ladies when they’d say that to us. I never was able to tell if it was a joke or not, whether we should or whether it was done or not!”

du: janon daʔadin meʔ ma mu:l haba: t̪'oxale nanway

du:

jano

-n

daʔa

-di

-n

meʔ

mu:l

haba:

t̪'o

-xale

nanway

other

speak

-ing

want

-present

-ing

char.

you

that

tongue

suck

-should

disc.mrkr.

if you want to speak another (language), you have to suck tongues
Edna said, “Old Indian women would say that to us all the time. We’d make a remark about not being able to understand another dialect and we’d laugh at the old ladies when they’d say that to us. I never was able to tell if it was a joke or not, whether we should or whether it was done or not!”