Grandmother's funeral narrative

Spoken by Sylvain Bodji on March 6, 2014

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(1)

da³

a-nɔ-ɡalɪɛ^2.4.2.3.1

ku⁴

ne²

e⁴

le=a^2.2

jo⁴

When my grandmother died, I was a child.

(2)

ne⁴

wa³

ja³¹

ɔnɛ-ku^2.3.3

ji³

sra⁴

mɛ²

ɔnɛ-ɟajɪ^2.3.3.2

ɟ-ɔ-l=a^31.2

ɓitə^2.3

They came brought her corpse home. Her body was put in her home.

(3)

la²

pupeku^2.2.3

a-nɔ^2.4

a-nɔwʊlɪ^2.32.3.1

ne⁴

a-nɔ^2.4

ɔ-nɔwʊ^3.3.2

la²

wə⁴

wa³

ji³

In the courtyard (of her house in Bjajedjo), my mom, brothers and sisters and the children of my mother's brother came.

(4)

ɲɛkpɛ^3.1

ɓutukpa^1.1.1

kɔ=a^2.2

luɡbu=a^4.1.1

kɔ³

ne⁴

wa³

pi³

li=li^3.2

ɓʊtʊɡba^1.1.1

Many people were at the funeral and there cooked a lot of food.

(5)

wa³

ɲɛ=a^42.2

li=li^3.2

ne⁴

a²

li²

They gave us food and we ate.

(6)

ne⁴

a²

ɲɛ⁴²

lawiə=a^3.2.1.1

li=li^3.2

da³

li=li^3.2

ɓi-ə^3.2

ne²

a²

ɲɛ⁴²

lawiə^3.2.1

no²

And we gave guests the food and when the food was gone we gave the guests drinks.

(7)

ne⁴

a²

wi³¹

a-nɔ-ɡalɪ=a^2.4.2.3.1

ne⁴

a²

mɛ=ɔ^3.2

ɟiɟe=da^2.2.2

kɔ³

ne⁴

a²

sra³

wʊlɪ^3.3

And we wept for our grandmother and we went to bury her and we came home. INCORPORATION

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