Northern Pomo Phrasicon

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!”

haba:wi t̪'ojin
	haba:	-wi	t̪'o	-ji	-n
	tongue	-with	suckle	-semelf.	-ing
(a baby) suckling with its tongue (a child) nursing with its tongue
EC

t̪a ma habasha:jiʔiʔ
	t̪a	ma	habasha:jiʔi	-ʔ
	Q	you	misspeak	-Q
did you misspeak? did you have a slip of the tongue?
EC

ma nant̪e habasha:jiʔmale
	ma	nant̪e	habasha:jiʔ	-male
	you	but	misspeak	-could
even you can misspeak even you could have a slip of the tongue
EC

ma nant̪eʔi habasha:jiʔi
	ma	nant̪e	-ʔi	habasha:jiʔi
	you	but	-adv.	misspeak
even you misspeak even you have slips of the tongue even you say things you shouldn't
EC

hilt̪in ma:t̪aya:ʔ habasha:jiʔin
	hilt̪in	ma:t̪a	-ya:ʔ	habasha:jiʔi	-n
	Indian	woman	-nom.	misspeak	-ing
the Indian woman is misspeaking the Indian woman is having slips of the tongue
ES

pʰow habasha:jimuʔye
	pʰow	habasha:ji	-muʔ	-ye
	they	misspeak	-recip.	-past
they misspoke they had a slip of the tongue they said something to each other they shouldn't have
EC