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!”

lo:hot̪ay nanway
	lo:ho	-t̪ay	nanway
	lazy	-plural	disc.mrkr.
(they) are lazy
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nan mil mu:l mo:wal t̪ʰana ka:y joknanway copna:mo:w
	nan	mil	mu:l	mo:wal	t̪ʰana	ka:y	jok	-nanway	cop	-na:m	-mo:w
	and	that	that	him	hand	also	shoot	-evid.	cop	-the	-he
and from that his hand was shot too, by the cop and the cop shot his hand from that
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mo:waʔ t̪ʰana ka:y joknanway copna:mo:w
	mo:waʔ	t̪ʰana	ka:y	jok	-nanway	cop	-na:m	-mo:w
	his	hand	also	shoot	-evid.	cop	-the	-he
the cop shot his hand, too (2) (I see) the cop also shot him in the hand (2)
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