Urmi, Christian: Village Life

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Geoffrey Khan	Khan, Geoffrey. The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi. 4 vols. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 86. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2016, vol. 4	Merab Badalov	Canda, Georgia

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0:00	⁺ṱā̀ltaˈ surùytanˈ ⁺ṱálaxva ⁺badùšəva šə́mma …ˈ c-amráxlə ⁺badùša.ˈ ⁺badúša muxrə́ppa k̭èsələ.ˈ ṱína c-odáxva ⁺sùvaġˈ yánət ʾo ⁺badúša ⁺ṱā̀sva.ˈ xá m-dēn-ṱ-íva mxáyu ⁺maṱṱùsuˈ ʾó xína yár manpə̀lva k̭a-⁺dávən.ˈ ʾə́n munpə̀lvalux,ˈ ⁺bək̭ràmutva.ˈ dìyyux꞊va.ˈ ⁺xárta ʾé xíta mxayòxva.ˈ ⁺ṱlá ɟanàyˈ ⁺ʾàrp̂aˈ ci-⁺ṱaláxva ⁺badùšə.ˈ ci-⁺k̭ármaxva k̭ésə k̭a-pìšə,ˈ labláxva sə́tva bèta.ˈ yāl-sùrəxva xína.ˈ ci-⁺ṱaláxva mə́drə tàsma.ˈ tásma ci-mattàxvalə ʾátxaˈ ʾódaxva xá ⁺yàzan,ˈ ⁺yàzan.ˈ ⁺ṱlá ɟanáy ɟavày꞊naˈ ⁺ṱlá ɟu-⁺tàrrəna.ˈ ɟárət ʾé tásma mə́n dé ⁺yázan ɟannəvvə̀tta.ˈ ʾə́n ɟnivávalux xá tàsmaˈ ⁺xárta b-dáyən mxàyətˈ marrùk̭ətˈ ɟar-ʾe-xìta ɟannəvvə́tta.ˈ ʾá-spar ʾáyən꞊da bəɟnàvotˈ ⁺xárta ʾe-d-ṱlà bəɟnávot.ˈ ʾà-sparˈ ʾan-ṱ-ína ɟavàyˈ ʾé tásma ɟárət šak̭lìla p̂-íduxˈ yánət ⁺k̭àrmiˈ yá xá ɟár ⁺k̭àrmiˈ yá ʾo-xìna.ˈ ʾə́n šk̭ilàvale,ˈ ʾá-spar ʾáni ⁺várəva ɟu-⁺yàzanˈ ʾánnə ⁺pláṱəva ɟu-⁺tàrra.ˈ b-lelavàyˈ ʾána bətxárən c-azáxva láb savúni nanùntiˈ ʾáni c-avívalə màccə.ˈ máccə ⁺ròba c-avívalə.ˈ ʾárrət beté ʾùprəva.ˈ c-avíva də́ryə ⁺táma ⁺k̭ùxaˈ c-aváxva tívə màccə práxa.ˈ cúllə navə́ɟɟət savùniˈ calàtuˈ c-aváxva tívə máccə pràxa.ˈ məttəlyày ci-hak̭ìvaˈ ʾan-sàvə k̭átanˈ ʾáxnan c-aváxva màccə práxa.ˈ ⁺ʾal-⁺harè vádəxva xína.ˈ sə́tva ci-payyíva ⁺lavàšəˈ ⁺ʾál tanùyra.ˈ hál ʾátxa ⁺dànaˈ cúllə yúma šíma ci-payyìva.ˈ ɟu-méša ci-xarzivalè,ˈ ⁺ʾə́sra ⁺ʾə́sra dànəˈ ci-labláxvale ⁺ʾál mdìta.ˈ yə́mmi ci-lablávale ⁺ʾal-mdìtaˈ ci-zabnàvaleˈ yán zonáva mə́n ⁺xàltaˈ hám꞊da ci-zonáva k̭àmxaˈ mayyáva yánət ⁺ʾal-dó-yuma xína mə́drə payyìva.ˈ b-dàyya bəxxáyəxva.ˈ ʾə́tva ʾə̀rxə?ˈ ʾə́rxə ʾə̀tvalan láxxa.ˈ ʾə́rxə ʾadíyya šópo pyàšələˈ ʾína ɟáno lə̀ttən.ˈ ⁺xə́ṱṱə máccə ci-labláxva ci-taxnàxva.ˈ hí … ʾàxnan ʾúžeˈ jī́s bətxàrox ʾe-ʾə́rxə xína.ˈ ʾərxíyyət mìyyəvaˈ mən-⁺ʾúllul bitáyəva šak̭ìyya.ˈ ʾə́tvala šìva,ˈ šìva ʾə́tvala lišān-dìyyan.ˈ bí táxtə ⁺ṱúrsəva šìva.ˈ ʾə́ltəx ʾə́tva ⁺tòpaˈ ʾan-míyya bətpáxəva ⁺ʾal-de-⁺tòpa,ˈ ʾáyən partùləva.ˈ bí ɟarúma ⁺ʾúllul ʾə́tvala cìpa,ˈ trè cípəˈ xà-danaˈ cə̀lyələˈ ʾṓ꞊t ⁺ʾúllul partùləvaˈ ʾán míyya maplùxuva.ˈ í bədráyəva ɟávo ⁺xə́ṱṱə ɟu-xá … ⁺ʾav mú꞊iva šə̀mmu ⁺ʾávva hə́nna?ˈ ⁺ṱúrsəva bí tàxtə,ˈ ʾícət ci-daráxvale ʾán ⁺xə̀ṱṱəˈ k̭ésa mùttəva.ˈ ʾo-k̭èsaˈ ʾo-cípa k̭át ʾo-k̭ésə ṱ-íva maplùxəˈ ʾú hə́nnət ⁺xə́ṱṱə bəjvàjəvaˈ yán tapxìva,ˈ bí xà ⁺ʾárra ɟárət tapxìva.ˈ ci-maclíval bí … ⁺ʾal-⁺k̭áydu cmá ⁺làzəm꞊la.ˈ ⁺róba ʾə́n ʾàtiˈ ɟarùsa váyəva k̭ámxa.ˈ ʾé-dān ṱ-íva maclúyu ʾərxàčiˈ bí ⁺xòləva ⁺ʾávunˈ vàdəva.ˈ partùluva,ˈ maclúyuva ⁺ʾal-šòpu.ˈ í ⁺xárta ɟašúk̭uva k̭ámxa p̂-ìduˈ ʾən-jī̀s k̭ámxa bitáyəva.ˈ ɟári šaxìna꞊da lá-ʾativa,ˈ ɟári ɟarùsa꞊da lá-ʾativa.ˈ í bətxànuvaˈ xá myešók bədráyəva ⁺ʾúllul ɟu-dó tàxtaˈ xá myešók k̭ámxa ⁺bəsláyəva mən-cìpa.ˈ ⁺xárta máyuva béta ⁺bənxàluva.ˈ ʾó ɟarúsa váduva ⁺bùlč̭u.ˈ ⁺búlč̭u ci-⁺yáṱṱət mù꞊ila?ˈ ⁺búlč̭u k̭ámxət màccə꞊daˈ k̭ámxət ⁺xə̀ṱṱə꞊da c-odíva ⁺bùlč̭u.ˈ ʾó ɟarùsaˈ c-odívalə ⁺bùlču.ˈ bašlívalə ɟu-míyya ⁺bərdàxaˈ í daríval mə̀šxa,ˈ mə̀šxaˈ yá꞊da ⁺xàlva.ˈ ʾó dàyk̭uˈ ⁺ʾávun ci-payyíval làxma.ˈ ci-lešìva.ˈ xmìra ʾə́tvalan k̭ámta.ˈ ʾadíyya drožži-naˈ ʾadíyya xìmiya vádəna ɟávu.ˈ k̭ámta ʾə́tvalan xmìra.ˈ ʾó xmíra mə́n … béta ⁺ʾal-béta ci-⁺ṱalbìvalə:ˈ hállə xmírax mə̀nniˈ payyàna.ˈ k̭údmə mayyànnə.ˈ xmìra,ˈ léša ⁺xmìsaˈ yánət k̭a-do-xína꞊da maxmìvaˈ lēn-⁺bəddá lípət ʾátən xmìra?ˈ ci-lešìvaˈ ci-macsìvalə léšaˈ yánət xamìva.ˈ ṱ-íva bəxmàyaˈ ⁺xárta bədráyəva cùndəˈ pyáyəva ⁺lavàšə,ˈ ɟərdàyəˈ ɟu-tanùyra.ˈ sə̀tvaˈ ʾàyyəva pəlxánətˈ … búš baxtày ci-payyívaˈ ʾé-danət ʾúrzə lə̀tvale pəlxána,ˈ hì?ˈ ʾé ⁺dána baxtáy ci-payyíva k̭àmxa.ˈ ci-lablàxva,ˈ ci-zabnàxva,ˈ ci-šak̭làxvaˈ ⁺xálta ci-mayyíva k̭a-yāl-sùrə.ˈ dáxiva ⁺xzàtta?ˈ xzí ⁺ʾal-dá ⁺xzátta ʾáxnan lḕx ⁺mə́ṱyə.ˈ ʾáxnan lḕx ⁺mə́ṱyəˈ šə́nnət díyyan xàč̭č̭əna.ˈ ʾàtxaˈ xə̀zyənˈ ⁺šə̀myənˈ yánət ci-⁺xazdìvaˈ c-odíva bùləˈ ci-mayyíva bèta.ˈ ʾə́tvale sùysaˈ yá k̭ənyànaˈ ⁺bəsyárəva ⁺ɟamə́šta ɟu-dé hə̀nna.ˈ partúlova yánət ʾán ⁺xə́ṱṱə ⁺palṱìvalə.ˈ ʾáyya ʾáxnan lḕx ⁺mə́ṱyə.ˈ ⁺dórət díyyan lèva úžə.ˈ ʾàniˈ ⁺ʾávun xá ⁺dóra xìnəva.ˈ ⁺ʾávun k̭àm díyyanˈ babavàtət díyyan,ˈ sávuni hám꞊da bàbiˈ ɟu-do-⁺dóra ʾàniva.ˈ ⁺bùdraˈ ʾáxnan ʾal-⁺búdra lḕx ⁺mə́ṱyə.ˈ ʾáxnan mṱìlanˈ ʾə́tva k̭olek̭tìv.ˈ k̭olek̭tìvˈ …ˈ ṱí ⁺muràleˈ cúllə … ci-⁺jammíva ⁺táma ɟu-dé k̭olek̭tìv,ˈ ⁺ʾálma ci-mapləxxìvalˈ ⁺xárta ci-yavvìvalə,ˈ mən-dó pəlxànuˈ ci-yavívalə xácma mešòɟəˈ yánət sə́tva ⁺mavə̀rvala xína.ˈ ʾan꞊t ʾə́tvale cármət ⁺ʾànvəˈ cármət ⁺ʾànvəˈ ɟáva ɟávu c-odíva ⁺màšəˈ ɟav-dán zulàlu.ˈ ʾúpra ʾé-ɟa xàč̭č̭əvaˈ k̭a-⁺ʾálma léva yáva ⁺ʾúpra ⁺ròba.ˈ ʾupránət díyyan xàč̭č̭əva.ˈ hádax vàdəvaˈ yánət ⁺ʾànvə꞊da ʾavívaleˈ ⁺mā̀š꞊da ʾavívaleˈ cmá ṱ-iva ʾúpra mlàya.ˈ búš c-odáxva ⁺mā̀š k̭ámta.ˈ c-odíva calàma,ˈ ⁺xyàrə,ˈ sə̀lk̭aˈ ʾó mə́ndi ṱ-ílə k̭á sə́tva ⁺làzəmˈ k̭a-ɟanè.ˈ ⁺k̭urtòpə.ˈ ⁺k̭urtópə xú lišān-dìyyan꞊lə,ˈ hì?ˈ mən-ɟə́pta vádəxva ⁺xàmra.ˈ ɟə́pta ⁺ʾànvəna.ˈ ⁺xámra mújjurra vaduxvà?ˈ ʾə̀tvalanˈ čàraz ⁺ṱurə́stəva.ˈ sávuni ʾə́tvalə čàraz ⁺ṱurə́stəva.ˈ ʾə́ltəx múttəva tàxtəˈ mən-⁺ʾúydalə rə̀k̭k̭a,ˈ ⁺bəzzàzə ʾə́tvale zulálə.ˈ ʾán ⁺ʾánvə ci-daráxvale ⁺tàmaˈ c-ask̭àxvaˈ ʾák̭lan xupyày.ˈ yāl-súrə ci-mask̭ívalan ⁺ṱlá ⁺ʾarp̂á ɟanàyˈ c-aváxva ⁺mràč̭a.ˈ i ʾə́ltəx ʾə̀tvalaˈ ʾàtxaˈ sùraˈ ⁺bə̀zza,ˈ mən-⁺táma ʾó ⁺xámra bitàyəva ɟúˈ ⁺k̭azànča.ˈ bəšk̭àluvaˈ bədráyuva ɟu-bòšk̭aˈ ɟu-⁺lìna.ˈ i ⁺xárta ⁺ʾávun ṱ-íva ⁺bəxmàsa,ˈ bək̭váya ʾalk̭ólət ⁺xàmruˈ ʾá-spar púmmu mač̭rùyuva.ˈ mattùyəvaˈ xá cìpaˈ mač̭rúyuva bí ɟàjˈ bí ʾúpra zàrda,ˈ i ṱašúya k̭á sə̀tva.ˈ ⁺bár hàda.ˈ ⁺lína ptàxuvaˈ tammùzuvaˈ ⁺palùṱuvaˈ k̭a-štéta ⁺xàmra.ˈ ci-xamìvaˈ xzùyra k̭a-sə́tva.ˈ ʾə́tvale k̭ənyànə.ˈ c-odíva k̭àlya.ˈ ⁺ʾávva k̭àlyaˈ ʾo-dìyyan꞊ləˈ t-suràyələ,ˈ ⁺búsrət k̭ənyána ⁺ɟùra,ˈ tavə̀rta.ˈ ⁺ʾávun ci-k̭alìvalə.ˈ ci-daríva ʾállu mə̀šxa.ˈ ci-mattíval ⁺ʾàvun꞊da k̭a-sə́tva.ˈ pyášələ ⁺ròba ⁺dána,ˈ lélə bəxràva,ˈ ṱ-ílə k̭ùlyaˈ ɟu-mə̀šxa.ˈ ⁺ʾávun c-avívalə ⁺k̭arṱòpəˈ c-avívalə … sə́tva ci-⁺moràxval níxa níxa mú.ˈ ʾàrak̭,ˈ ʾárak̭ váduxva mə́n dó … ʾó ṱ-íva pyáša mən-⁺xàmra,ˈ ʾó pùlluš.ˈ mən-⁺dávun ⁺palúṱəxva ʾàrak̭.ˈ ʾə́tlan ⁺k̭azánčət ʾàrak̭.ˈ ʾadìyya꞊daˈ lḕt muxziyyú?ˈ ⁺k̭azánčət ʾàrak̭ ʾə́ttənˈ k̭a-ʾárak̭ ⁺paláṱṱa ⁺k̭azànča ʾə́ttən.ˈ ʾo ʾárak̭ bədráyuna ɟu-bòšk̭aˈ pyášələ k̭á … hál꞊t ⁺rə́dxu càlə.ˈ ʾé-⁺dān ṱ-ílə ⁺bərdàxaˈ lè ⁺páləṱ ʾárak̭.ˈ ɟári ⁺rə́dxu càlə.ˈ ⁺bár clétət ⁺rə̀dxuˈ bədráyuna ɟu-de-⁺k̭azànča.ˈ ʾə́tla ʾáyən csèta,ˈ macùsona.ˈ ʾu-cséta ʾə́tla ⁺bə̀zza.ˈ hìˈ mən-dó ⁺bə́zza mattúyuna ɟu-ṱrùbaˈ ɟu-xòda.ˈ ⁺táma mìyyəna.ˈ ʾá hə́lma ṱ-ílə ⁺bərdàxaˈ ʾó hə́lma bərrə́ššələ ɟu-dó ⁺ṱrùba,ˈ ɟu-míyya bək̭k̭àšələˈ ʾó hə̀lma.ˈ hí vàyələˈ ⁺naṱupyày.ˈ hí mən-dó ⁺ṱrùbaˈ ⁺bəsláyəna ⁺naṱupyàyˈ ɟú ⁺bòṱul.ˈ ⁺ṱašuyévax xína k̭á ⁺xartè.ˈ ⁺méta ci-⁺mayyávala bàxta.ˈ k̭ámta ⁺xálva ⁺mardùxuva.ˈ bədráyəva ⁺xə̀msa xá čámčaˈ màsta ɟávu.ˈ pyášəva k̭a-dó móriša xìnaˈ ʾú ⁺bèrašəˈ ṱ-íva pyáša k̭a-móriša váyəva màsta.ˈ ʾé másta bədráyova ɟu-⁺mèta.ˈ púmmo ⁺bəsyárova bìˈ … púmmət dé ⁺méta ⁺bəsyàruvaˈ i xúto mattúyəva muttàcca.ˈ muttácca ɟlùltəlaˈ ʾátxa ⁺yarə̀xta.ˈ xút ⁺mèta,ˈ xút císo mattùyuva.ˈ ʾé ⁺méta ʾátxa labúlo màyova,ˈ ⁺marúmo maccùpovaˈ hál꞊t … hál꞊t ʾatyàvaˈ ʾé másta váyəva ⁺càrra.ˈ ʾo ⁺cárra bəšk̭áluva b-nòšu,ˈ ʾíta ⁺ʾávun pyášəva ⁺dàvvə.ˈ b-⁺dávvə ci-bašláxva bušàla.ˈ bušála ⁺šə̀myət hí?ˈ bušàla.ˈ bušála c-odíla bí sə̀lk̭a,ˈ bí ⁺tòlə,ˈ càraz.ˈ ʾáyya hə́nnət suràyəla,ˈ ⁺xáltət suràyəla.ˈ zóda hə́č-naša lélə ⁺bəddáyo ʾàyya.ˈ ʾá bušála hə́č-naša lèlə bəddáyo.ˈ ʾo ⁺càrra꞊daˈ ci-mapšərrìval,ˈ c-odíval mə̀šxa,ˈ ci-mattíval ɟu-bancyày.ˈ búš cúllə ⁺hazərrúyta c-odívala k̭a-sə̀tva,ˈ yánət sə́tva čàtun꞊va xéta.ˈ ʾáni ɟárət šák̭liva k̭a-ɟanèˈ k̭a-⁺xartè.ˈ ⁺méta ʾàtxəva.ˈ ⁺méta ʾadìyya꞊da ʾə́tlan ʾáxnan pyàšəla,ˈ ʾína xína ʾáxnan lḕx maplúxo.ˈ ʾə́tloxun tanùyrə? tanúyra ʾə̀tlan.ˈ ʾána k̭údmə ɟáni pyàyənva,ˈ ʾána pyáyənva ⁺lavàšə.ˈ ʾávətva p̂ṱ-ávətva xə̀zya hí?ˈ k̭údmə pìli ʾána ɟáni,ˈ ʾána bàxta.ˈ báxta ⁺darrùnəvaˈ bí ⁺doràna.ˈ ⁺dorànaˈ ʾátxa k̭ésa ɟlùlələ.ˈ ⁺dorànələ šə́mmu lišā́n꞊t suràyə hí.ˈ ʾə́ttən tàxta.ˈ ⁺ʾal-dé táxta mattúyəna cùndaˈ bí ⁺dorána ⁺darrùnuna.ˈ ⁺xárta bədráyuna ⁺ʾál ⁺drananè.ˈ maptùyuna,ˈ maptùyuna.ˈ ʾə́tlan màzrak̭.ˈ ʾátxa màzrak̭ ʾə́tlan.ˈ ⁺ʾal-dé mázrak̭ šavùyut.ˈ mázrak̭ ʾə́tla xúto ⁺bə̀zza.ˈ ʾátxa bədvàk̭otˈ hí bí dé màzrak̭ˈ ʾo ⁺laváša mxáyut ɟu-tanùyra.ˈ ɟu-xá dak̭ík̭a bšàlələ,ˈ bəsmàk̭əl,ˈ ⁺házər vàyələ,ˈ nàzucˈ ⁺lavášət suràyə.ˈ ṱ-ī́x ⁺lavášə pyàyaˈ xá ʾə̀sri,ˈ tláy dànəˈ ⁺xárta pyáyəna ⁺bár lavàšəˈ ɟərdàyə,ˈ ɟərdèta.ˈ ɟərdéta ʾə́tla mazrák̭ət ɟànoˈ ʾḗ꞊t ɟərdèta ɟlùltəla,ˈ súrṱa mazràk̭꞊laˈ ʾán ɟərdáyə mxayéna ɟáv tanùyra.ˈ macùsuna.ˈ ʾáni xáč̭č̭a ⁺róba ɟárət bàšli,ˈ hál꞊t lá sàmk̭i.ˈ í ⁺xárta ⁺paluṱéva ʾàni mən-ɟávu.ˈ k̭á xà šábta,ˈ k̭àmta,ˈ k̭ámta ʾó ⁺ʾálma ʾatík̭a ci-payyíva k̭á xà yárxa.ˈ ci-daríva ci-mabrəzzìvalə.ˈ í ⁺xárta ci-mattìvaləˈ yánət sə́tva cúl-yum lá payyìva.ˈ ⁺xárta ci-⁺palṱíva ʾo-láxma brìzaˈ ci-nammənnìvalə,ˈ ɟú rùšnuc nimánaˈ carməxxìvaləˈ yánət racə̀xva.ˈ hí mən-⁺dávun c-⁺axlìva.ˈ ʾadíyya pyáyəna cút šábta xà-ɟa.ˈ ʾána k̭údmə pìliˈ k̭údmə píli k̭a-xá … k̭a-xá šábta mlàyanˈ k̭a-cúllə ʾójax ⁺bixàla.ˈ ⁺ʾávun basìmələ.ˈ ʾá láxma zvìnaˈ ⁺ṱáma lə̀tlə ʾət-hə̀č-məndi.ˈ b-k̭èsə ⁺bəšyárux tanúyra,ˈ b-k̭èsə,ˈ hí b-k̭èsə.ˈ tanúyra ⁺ṱúrsələ b-ʾúpra zàrda,ˈ k̭ùlyələ.ˈ múttələ hádax yánət cálət maxə̀ttə.ˈ k̭ámta tanúyran ɟu-⁺ʾàrrəva.ˈ baxtáyə ci-yatvíva ⁺ʾál … ⁺ʾál ⁺ʾàrra,ˈ ⁺ʾál jùllaˈ ʾíta ci-maxìvalə.ˈ ʾína ⁺xárta ʾó tanúyra mattúyuva ⁺ʾal-pàtaˈ xáč̭č̭a ⁺ʾùllulˈ yánət ⁺ʾal-ʾák̭lux cálət pàyyət.ˈ ⁺ʾal-ʾak̭lé clàyənaˈ háda pyàyəna.ˈ ʾə́tva xaṱùra? hí k̭ámta ʾə́tvale ⁺xaṱùra.ˈ ci-mattìvaleˈ ci-xašlìvaleˈ jùlləˈ bí dó k̭èsaˈ yán p̂-idèˈ ʾan-júllə ɟúrət dmàxaˈ ṱ-ína malàpə.ˈ ʾáni x-là-⁺ʾamsi,ˈ p̂-idé lèva ⁺myasa masívale.ˈ ʾátxa vadèva,ˈ matruyèvaˈ mattuyéva b-⁺k̭ùṱma.ˈ ʾána bətxárən b-⁺k̭ùṱma ci-masìvale.ˈ ⁺k̭úṱma ci-⁺yàṱṱət?ˈ ʾó ⁺k̭úṱma ṱ-ílə ɟu-tanùyraˈ ṱ-ína k̭èsəˈ b-da-⁺k̭ùṱma,ˈ ⁺bənxàluva,ˈ b-dó ⁺k̭ùṱmaˈ k̭ámta ⁺sabun lə̀tva.ˈ b-⁺k̭úṱma júllə ci-masìvale.ˈ ⁺xárta ⁺və́rrə ⁺sàbunˈ mən-dó ⁺sabúnət … ʾàtxaˈ ⁺ɟúra ⁺sàbunˈ ʾət-⁺ʾurusnàyəˈ švə́k̭le ⁺sàbunˈ xá jùrra.ˈ ʾá-spar plə́ṱle sàynə.ˈ k̭ámta sáynət k̭èsəvaˈ b-táxta ⁺ṱarúsəva sàyna.ˈ sáyna ci-yàṱṱət mú꞊ila?ˈ ɟáv cú-məndi ṱ-ína msàya.ˈ ⁺xárta plə́ṱle ʾət-prə̀zla-uže.ˈ ⁺bár dán꞊t k̭ésa úžə plə́ṱle ʾət꞊prə̀zla.ˈ ci-lešíva lèša꞊daˈ ɟu-sáynət k̭èsa ʾə́tvalanˈ jə̀pnəva šə́mmu.ˈ šə́mmu jə̀pnələ,ˈ ʾícə ṱ-íva léša bəlyàša,ˈ láxma léša ṱ-íva bəlyàšuˈ jə́pnət k̭èsəva,ˈ šə́mmu jə̀pnəva.ˈ ʾadiyya mànələ,ˈ ʾadíyya mànələˈ ʾət-prə̀zla,ˈ ʾət-alumìn.ˈ hì,ˈ ʾáyən jə̀pnəva šə́mmu.ˈ ʾət-léša jə̀pna ci-⁺k̭arívala.ˈ šak̭iyyày ʾə́tvaloxun? šak̭iyyày ʾə́tvalan?ˈ hì.ˈ xá šak̭íyya làxxəvaˈ ɟu-da-⁺ʾalúla sùra ʾátxa.ˈ dúla ʾadíyya꞊da šak̭íyya vèla.ˈ véla xa-šak̭ìyya.ˈ xá-xta xáč̭č̭a l-ò-yba.ˈ ʾán šak̭iyyáy háda vìdəva.ˈ mən-⁺ʾúllul c-atyáva šak̭íta ⁺ɟùrta,ˈ ⁺xárta ⁺pallúyəva ⁺ʾál ⁺ʾalulā̀n.ˈ ʾé-dān ṱ-íva míyya ⁺ròba,ˈ mlàyəva.ˈ ʾé ⁺dána xìtaˈ bí nobànə.ˈ ʾúdyu nobət dìyyilə.ˈ ⁺xárta nobət ⁺dàvvələ.ˈ mánilə nòbuˈ ⁺ʾàvun ci-maštíva.ˈ šak̭íyya ci-šok̭áxvala ɟu-bàxčəˈ ɟu-bavày.ˈ bavày c-odáxva,ˈ hí bàva.ˈ báva mù꞊ila?ˈ báva … hádax ⁺ṱarùsoxva.ˈ marzanáno ⁺marúməxva ʾùpra.ˈ ɟávo ⁺bəzràyətˈ ⁺bùslə.ˈ báva ʾavíla marzanànəˈ yánət míyya ṱ-īt-bəšvak̭é ɟàvoˈ m-l-á-yba xína là tápxi,ˈ ʾé báva šàtya.ˈ ʾátxa cúllə c-aváxva vidé bí bavàyˈ bàxča.ˈ ʾə́tva bavátət ⁺màšəˈ bavátət ⁺xyàrə,ˈ bavátət ⁺bùslə,ˈ tùymaˈ cút-xa bávu b-nòšuva.ˈ šə́mmət dáyən bàvəl.ˈ báva mújjurra tanə̀nnuxˈ ʾàtxa vádoxvaˈ ⁺yarəxnètaˈ láxxa vádəxva tìra.ˈ tìra.ˈ tíra lḕt ⁺bədda ʾátən.ˈ tíra ʾátxa ṱ-īt-ʾúpra ⁺marùmuˈ ʾátxa hì?ˈ hì,ˈ ʾátxa bí tìraˈ baváy prášəva m-⁺ùydalə.ˈ ʾátxa bí tiránə bavày,ˈ hì.ˈ hí ɟu-de-báva míyya bəšvak̭ḗtvaˈ ṱ-íva bərrə́šša ⁺ʾal-prák̭to ⁺mṱàya,ˈ bədvàk̭otvaˈ ʾá-spar bəšvak̭ḗtva l-ó-yba xìnaˈ ɟu-dó … báva xína bərrə̀xšəva.ˈ xá ⁺ṱlá ⁺ʾarp̂á ⁺saháttə c-aváxva maštúyo bàxča.ˈ cúllə ci-maštiyyàxvala.ˈ ʾá-spar míyya ci-šok̭àxvale,ˈ c-azə́lva ʾo-xìna,ˈ švàva,ˈ xə̀zman,ˈ švàvanˈ ci-maštìva,ˈ ʾan-ṱ-íva-uže mən-⁺bár díyyan k̭a-maštùyə.ˈ ʾadíyya šak̭iyyáy lə̀ttən.ˈ prə̀k̭le.ˈ tlə̀xle.ˈ hə́č-naša lélə vadè.ˈ lə̀tlan míyya.ˈ ʾadíyya maštúyəx mən-k̭ùnya.ˈ m-k̭únya maštúyəx b-bə̀rk̭a,ˈ mòṱor,ˈ ⁺nàsus,ˈ cúllə bí šlànɟ maštúyəx.ˈ mən-ʾícəna bitáya míyyət štèta? míyyət štéta k̭ùnya ʾə́tlan.ˈ k̭únya ʾə̀tlan.ˈ ham꞊da ʾə́t mənné ʾə́tle mìyya.ˈ xú xzìlux,ˈ ṱ-ína bitàyaˈ ɟú … ʾàni꞊da míyyət štètəna,ˈ ṱ-ína ⁺bəzyè,ˈ ⁺pláṱəna ɟanè.ˈ dáx꞊iva bətvátə ɟu-K̭ánda k̭àmta? táza ʾət-ʾína tìyyəˈ ʾána xácma betanànə,ˈ bətxarḕn,ˈ betanánət ʾùprəva.ˈ bí ʾàləz ⁺ṱúrsəva.ˈ càrpəč.ˈ ɟané ⁺ṱarúsəva bí ʾùpra,ˈ bí tùyna.ˈ túyna ci-⁺yàṱṱət hí?ˈ tùyna,ˈ ɟə́lla barùyzaˈ ci-⁺xoṱívalə bí do-⁺ṱìnaˈ c-odíva carpìčə.ˈ ci-mabrəzzívale ⁺ʾal-yùma.ˈ b-dáni bnáyəva bèta.ˈ xá … b-xá dàna,ˈ ⁺ʾarp̂á ɟuydanànəˈ xá bèta.ˈ c-odívalə … ⁺k̭arávat ⁺ɟùrtaˈ k̭a-cúllunte m-⁺ùydalə damxíva,ˈ bàba,ˈ yə̀mma,ˈ yàlə,ˈ ʾál déxa ⁺k̭aràvatˈ damxíva cúllə ⁺tàma.ˈ saccunyày c-odíva.ˈ saccùnta,ˈ sàccun.ˈ ʾáyən꞊da bnìtəlaˈ pə́tvo xá mètraˈ k̭a-dmàxa,ˈ k̭a-dmàxa,ˈ xína ʾṓ꞊t k̭àmta,ˈ ʾé꞊ɟət k̭àmta.ˈ ʾànaˈ … ɟu-dá ⁺dórət díyyan ʾátxa lə̀tva ʾína.ˈ bàlma ci-daríva xuté,ˈ bàlma.ˈ bàlma.ˈ ʾíman ⁺xə́ṱṱə ṱ-ílə pyàšaˈ ʾo-bàlma,ˈ ʾo-ɟə́lla hí barùyza,ˈ ⁺ʾal-⁺dàvən ci-damxíva.ˈ ʾàyya-uže,ˈ ʾáyya ⁺ròba k̭ámtəva hí.ˈ saccunyày,ˈ sáccun mù꞊ila?ˈ də́pnət ɟúyda bnàyənaˈ bí do-ʾùpraˈ yá bí dan-carpíčət ʾúpra bnàyəvaˈ xà métra,ˈ xáč̭č̭a ⁺basùraˈ ɟùydaˈ də́pnət ɟùydaˈ mə́drə ɟúyda bnáyəva ʾáxči cùpaˈ k̭a-dmàxtət ⁺ʾállu,ˈ k̭a-⁺xàltət ⁺ʾállu.ˈ ʾé-ɟət tìle,ˈ lə́tva tàxta,ˈ lə̀tvale hə́č mə́ndi.ˈ ṱ-í ʾət-táza ⁺ʾalméni tíle láxxa lə̀tvale hə́č mə́ndi.ˈ ɟu-ɟuybanànə ci-xayyíva,ˈ ɟùybaˈ pálɟət béta ɟu-ʾùprəva.ˈ pálɟu múcsəva bí ʾùpra ʾátxa,ˈ ʾàtxa,ˈ ɟùyba. ɟùyba,ˈ znàčet,ˈ pálɟu ɟu-ʾùpra,ˈ pálɟu ⁺ʾál pā̀t-duca,ˈ ʾə̀ltəx,ˈ yánət šaxə̀nta ʾoyáva.ˈ ⁺k̭aryày,ˈ ci-mattíva k̭èsə.ˈ ci-daríva zìla,ˈ zìla,ˈ dárzə b-zìlaˈ ci-⁺yasríva dàrzə.ˈ ci-daríva ⁺ʾállu … ʾùpraˈ yánət šaxìna ʾavíva.ˈ ʾátxa ɟlùla váduvaˈ ⁺xárta mən-dan-dárzət zíla ci-xarzíva ⁺ʾàlluˈ yánət míyya ɟávu là ⁺salíva,ˈ ⁺salíva ⁺ʾal-màrza.ˈ c-oyáva ʾé-⁺dān ṱ-íva ⁺múṱra xelánta bitàya,ˈ bədlàpəva,ˈ bətràyəva.ˈ ɟàrə? hí ɟaravày꞊da ʾə́tva.ˈ ɟára ʾú-uže ɟárə dùz꞊ilə.ˈ ⁺ʾávun dùz꞊ilə.ˈ ʾə́tva dalùpə? dalúpə vàyəva híˈ yánət t-lá-ʾaviva mən-⁺ʾúllul … ɟandərríva ʾállu mə̀ndi.ˈ ci-ɟarpívalə tàlɟa? tálɟa ci-ɟarpìval hí.ˈ tálɟa c-àvə,ˈ ɟarpìvaləˈ ⁺múṱra x-là-⁺ʾamsi ɟarpívala.ˈ ⁺múṱra ṱ-íva bitáya xelànta,ˈ lè-⁺ʾamsi ɟarpívala.ˈ ʾé-⁺dana c-atíva dalupyày.ˈ tálɟa c-ask̭ìva,ˈ canšìvalə,ˈ tamməzzìvalə.ˈ bəcnášəva m-⁺ál ɟàrəˈ yánət lá ⁺salyàva.ˈ ʾànaˈ tré betanánə pyášəva ɟu-surúytət dìyyiˈ ʾána xəzyḕn ʾáni.ˈ b-mú bəcnàšəva? b-mù bəcnašəvá?ˈ bí canùšta.ˈ canúšta ci-⁺ṱarsíva bí … ʾə́ttən ɟə́lla ⁺támma ʾícəna bat-⁺k̭uravày.ˈ ɟə́llət canùšta ʾə́ttən.ˈ hám꞊da canúšta ʾə́ttən bək̭yáməla ɟu-baxčanā̀n.ˈ canušyáy ci-⁺ṱarsívale ⁺hàzərˈ yánət ʾavívale k̭a-sə̀tva.ˈ ʾáy ʾadíyya ⁺bár xá yàrxa,ˈ uže-⁺dā́n canúšta ṱ-atyàni,ˈ ɟári canùšta.ˈ ʾadíyya꞊da ⁺bəsyárəx canùštaˈ k̭á dárta cnàštaˈ canúštət ɟánan bèta.ˈ ʾə́tva panjàrə? ʾə́tva panjàra.ˈ ʾə́tva càva,ˈ ʾán betanánət ʾàləz.ˈ panjára m-ìca?ˈ ʾé-ɟa šúyša lə̀tva.ˈ ʾə́n xá náša ʾavíval xá šùyša.ˈ càvə ʾə́tva,ˈ càva ci-⁺k̭arívalə.ˈ ʾə́tva hádax ⁺dána ʾət-k̭ənyànəˈ tavə̀rtaˈ hám꞊da ⁺ʾálma m-⁺ùydalə ci-xayyíva.ˈ tavə́rta꞊da sə́tva ci-⁺morívala ɟav-bèta.ˈ ʾé-⁺dānət ⁺bayyáva ⁺jyàrtaˈ ʾó ⁺ɟórət bètaˈ ci-⁺p̂armìva bíyyoˈ ci-šak̭ə́lva màna,ˈ ci-davə́k̭va xùtoˈ yánət rìxa là-ʾaviva.ˈ ɟu-⁺jyárto davə́k̭valə k̭àmo,ˈ ⁺jeràva.ˈ ⁺palə́ṱva tapə̀xval.ˈ cullə ⁺heyvanə ɟu-bètəva? cúllə làˈ tavə̀rta,ˈ bíyya b-⁺zàyo,ˈ tavə̀rta.ˈ ctètaˈ lèva ⁺lázəm ɟu-bèta.ˈ xzùyra léva ⁺lázəm ɟu-béta.ˈ láxxa hádax k̭árta lèla ɟu-Gúrjəs-⁺tanˈ yánət xablìva.ˈ xzúyra lè xábəl.ˈ xzúyra ɟu-⁺tàrra ci-pāš.ˈ šə́mmət bétət xzúyrə mùdilə? k̭ə́nnət xzùyraˈ k̭ə́nnət xzúyra꞊da c-odívala dáx꞊t … ɟu-⁺ʾàrraˈ ɟu-⁺ʾárra ɟùyba c-odíva.ˈ ɟu-ɟúyba xzúyra ⁺táma c-⁺avə́rva sə̀tva.ˈ ⁺ʾárra šaxə̀ntəla.ˈ ci-⁺k̭erívala ʾátxa ⁺ʾàrra.ˈ ci-macsìvalə,ˈ daríva ⁺ʾállu ʾùpraˈ yánət ʾo-xzúyra꞊da šaxìna ʾavíva.ˈ ⁺xṱìtuva xína.ˈ ctayáy ʾə́tvale nìnə.ˈ nínət ctayày ci-⁺k̭arívalaˈ ʾícə ṱ-ína ctayàyˈ ʾicə ṱ-ína ⁺bəryàpa,ˈ nìnə ⁺bək̭ráyona.ˈ hí bétət ctayáy nìnələ šə́mmo,ˈ nìnə.ˈ ʾàtxaˈ k̭èsə ci-mattívaˈ yask̭íva ⁺ʾal-dán k̭èsə ⁺yarpíva.ˈ ⁺ʾúllul macùsovaˈ yánət ⁺múṱra b-rišé là-ʾatyava.ˈ k̭a-bíyyə ci-mattíva ʾərbàla,ˈ ʾərbála ʾatə́k̭ta ci-mattíva ɟávo tùynaˈ yánət ʾé ctéta ɟu-dé ʾərbàla mattáva bíyyə.ˈ ci-maxpívala꞊da ʾé-⁺danət ʾan-bíyyo ṱ-íva ⁺bəjmá zòdaˈ ṱ-íla k̭apk̭ùpə ctéta,ˈ k̭apk̭ùpəˈ bíyyə ṱ-íla mattúyə ⁺ròbaˈ k̭apk̭ùpəla.ˈ ⁺xárta ⁺palúṱəla ⁺zàyə.ˈ ɟu-dé ʾərbàlaˈ ⁺ʾal-dó ɟə̀lla.ˈ ci-maxpívala ⁺ʾal-dan-bìyyəˈ ʾəsrí xá bìta ci-mattíva xùto.ˈ ʾàtxəva.ˈ lḗn-⁺bədda k̭a-mù.ˈ ʾadíyya꞊da ʾátxa vàdəna,ˈ ʾəsrí xà bíta,ˈ hì,ˈ í ci-maxpìvala,ˈ ci-⁺palṱáva ⁺záyə sùrə.ˈ hì,ˈ ctèta.ˈ ⁺xárta ʾan-⁺záyə ɟarvùsənaˈ yánət xa-⁺xàrta ʾavíle.ˈ ʾan-sàvəˈ pràməva.ˈ ʾan-jìləˈ ɟarvúsəva váyəva ctayày.ˈ ʾáy k̭ə́nnət ctayáy šə́mmu nìnəva.ˈ šə́mmət bétət dabášə mùdilə? ci-⁺k̭araxlə k̭ə́nnət dabàšə.ˈ ʾáni ʾə́tle k̭ə́nnət ɟanè,ˈ k̭utíyyət ɟanè.ˈ ʾə́tla ⁺bə̀zza ʾáyən.ˈ ʾáni ⁺pláṱəna ⁺várəna ⁺xálta vádəna k̭a-ɟanè.ˈ ɟanèˈ ⁺ṱarúsəna ⁺xàltaˈ mən-dà ʾilána,ˈ mən-p̂ə̀c̭xa,ˈ ʾá xá xixə̀ccələ.ˈ ʾá ʾilána šə́mmu xixə̀ccələ,ˈ xixə̀cca.ˈ xixə̀cca.ˈ mən-dá bəšk̭áləna mən-cúllə ⁺róba dùyša.ˈ ⁺xárta ʾadìyya,ˈ ʾadíyya ⁺dánət ⁺paláṱṱət dùyšəla.ˈ yárət ʾána xàzzənˈ ɟu-dánnə yumánə ɟári ⁺pàlṱənˈ dùyša.ˈ xáč̭č̭a ⁺palúṱət k̭a-ɟànuxˈ xáč̭č̭a bəšvák̭ət k̭a-dàni,ˈ yánət ʾáni꞊da sə́tva xú léna ⁺myasa ⁺xálta màčxi.ˈ mən dé ⁺xáltət dàniˈ ʾàxnan bəšk̭áləxˈ pálɟə k̭a-dìyyan,ˈ pálɟə k̭a-dabàšə.ˈ ʾə́ttən xelàpa.ˈ ʾə́ttən xixə̀cca.ˈ ʾə́ttən ⁺camùtra.ˈ xabùyša,ˈ tùyta.ˈ túyta xu-lišān-dìyyan꞊la.ˈ ɟòza,ˈ pəndə̀k̭k̭a.ˈ ⁺tambùyrə,ˈ tambúrta ʾə́ttən.ˈ ʾə́ttən ⁺ɟilàsta ʾə́ttən.ˈ balbalùk̭ta ʾə́ttən.ˈ k̭a-díyyux tánən xína mù ʾə́ttən?ˈ ⁺k̭aralū̀ɟ.ˈ vàrdə? vàrda,ˈ lišánət ɟánan šə̀mmuˈ xá ʾáxči ci-⁺yaṱṱə́nnə vàrdaˈ smùk̭a,ˈ várda ⁺xvàra,ˈ várda zàrda.ˈ ʾátxa b-šəmmanè,ˈ úžə šəmmánət díyyan lèna ⁺ʾallé.ˈ c-óya ʾət-dìyyanˈ ʾáxnan lḕx ⁺bəddáya.ˈ c-óya ʾət-dìyyan꞊na.ˈ ʾə́ttən zaprā̀n.ˈ k̭a-sə̀tvaˈ c-odáxva k̭a-k̭ənyànəˈ c-odáxən ʾadìyya꞊da,ˈ ɟə̀lla ⁺bəxzádəx,ˈ mabrùzux,ˈ vádux ɟdìša.ˈ ⁺bəxzádəx pučèčə.ˈ pučèčə lḗn ⁺bəddá lišān-dìyyan꞊lə.ˈ màccə.ˈ máccə ṱ-ína bràza,ˈ ⁺ṱára ⁺palùṱut.ˈ ʾan-máccət ⁺bəxzadḕtˈ vadét dàrza.ˈ ʾan-dárzə꞊da bəxrazḗx ⁺ʾal-⁺ʾuydàlə,ˈ yánət ⁺múṱra ɟavé là ⁺sálya,ˈ là xárvi.ˈ i sə̀tvaˈ xá dárza pučèčə ⁺maxulḗxˈ xá xp̂ák̭a꞊da ɟə̀lla bədráyəxˈ ɟu-pàɟa.ˈ móriša ci-k̭émax xuté ci-tamməzzìlə.ˈ ci-⁺xalvìle.ˈ daríle ⁺xàlta.ˈ ci-⁺morìle,ˈ mìyya ci-maštíle ʾé-⁺dān ṱ-íla k̭àrta.ˈ ʾé-⁺dān ṱ-íla xáčča šaxinùyta,ˈ ⁺pláṱəna ɟu-⁺tàra,ˈ bəštáyəna mìyya,ˈ ⁺maxulèna,ˈ mayèna,ˈ ⁺mavuréna mə́drə ɟu-pàɟa.ˈ dràyəna,ˈ ʾə́tle ʾuravàyˈ šəmmé ʾuravày꞊lə.ˈ b-táxta ⁺ṱúrsəna ʾuravày.ˈ ʾu-ɟə́lla ɟu-ʾuraváy bədràyunaˈ yánət lá bazbək̭k̭ílə xút ʾak̭lè,ˈ k̭a-sə́tva ɟə̀lla,ˈ hám꞊da pučèčə.ˈ pučèčəˈ ʾánnə máccə prìmə ṱ-ína,ˈ máccə brìzə ṱ-ína,ˈ ʾo-⁺ʾək̭ré ṱ-ílə bràza,ˈ ⁺ʾávun šə́mmu pučèčələ.ˈ ⁺ʾávun vádux dàrzə.ˈ hám ɟə́lla ⁺bəxzádux bí ɟalándi ɟu-⁺čòl.ˈ máyux bèta,ˈ mattúyux ɟdìša.ˈ í sə́tva mən-⁺dávun bəšk̭àlənaˈ ⁺maxulèna.ˈ múdi c-odítuva k̭a-sə́tva? k̭àlya ci-k̭alíva.ˈ ⁺k̭urṱópə ci-⁺ṱašìva,ˈ ɟané ⁺k̭urṱòpə.ˈ calàmə.ˈ turšìyyə ci-dok̭íva.ˈ turšíyyə xu-⁺bəddàyət hí?ˈ turšíyyət ⁺bùybar,ˈ ʾət-calàmə,ˈ ʾət-⁺badəmjànə.ˈ ⁺màšə ci-avívale.ˈ xá tré mešóɟə ⁺màšə.ˈ k̭átux tànənˈ xzúyra ci-parmìva.ˈ ci-mattívalə ɟu-míyya mə̀lxaˈ yánət lá xàrəvva.ˈ ⁺palṱìva,ˈ ci-⁺xallìva,ˈ c-odíva ⁺dòlma.ˈ ṱàrpə ci-dok̭íva,ˈ ṱárpət ɟə̀pta.ˈ ⁺ṱárpət ⁺ɟə̀pta,ˈ ʾáyya dòlmaˈ ṱárpət sùrayəla.ˈ dólmət ⁺ṱárpə b-⁺k̭àttəġ,ˈ b-tùyma.ˈ ʾadìyya꞊da cúllə ʾánnə vadḕx ʾáxnan.ˈ ʾadíyya꞊da c-odàxle.ˈ harìsa ci-bašlíva,ˈ harìsa.ˈ šəmyəttə̀ harísa?ˈ harísa ⁺xə̀ṱṱə ci-bašlívale.ˈ ɟavé ci-ódi ⁺bùsra.ˈ búš ⁺k̭àza c-odíva ɟáv harísa k̭ámta.ˈ ʾadíyya b-ctèta váduna.ˈ xína k̭ámxət màccə c-avívale,ˈ ⁺bùlč̭u c-odíva.ˈ níxa níxa sə́tva ci-⁺morìvalə xína.ˈ ʾə́tva tàlɟa? ʾé-ɟət surúyti ⁺ròba c-atíva tálɟa.ˈ ʾána bətxárən ṱ-ī́nva sùra,ˈ ɟu-dàrtaˈ nanúnti ptáxəva bí lap̂àṱk̭aˈ ʾátxa ʾùrxa.ˈ xá métra … mən-métra zòda c-ávivaˈ ⁺ràma.ˈ ʾé-⁺dana ⁺hàsəl꞊da bitáyəva jī̀s.ˈ ʾadíyya baruzùytəla.ˈ ⁺hásəl lèla bitá.ˈ ʾé-ɟa ʾo-tálɟa ṱ-i-c-atìvaˈ ⁺ʾávun mlàyəva k̭á …ˈ do-mə̀ndi,ˈ k̭a-ʾilànə,ˈ k̭á … yéməš mlàyəva.ˈ ʾadíyya tálɟa láxxa ⁺basùra bitáyələ.ˈ búš k̭àrta váyəla.ˈ maɟdálta ⁺ròbəla.ˈ ʾurxáy ⁺róba pī̀s꞊va.ˈ ʾúrxay bí ⁺ʾarabànə,ˈ bí cállə bí xèla c-áziva m-áxxa mən-ɟu-da-⁺ʾalúla.ˈ ⁺tammòˈ ʾána l-ó-yba bəxxàyən,ˈ ⁺támma ʾə́tva šak̭ìyya.ˈ ⁺ʾarabána ci-⁺ṱamràva,ˈ ⁺ʾarabána ⁺bəddàyət hí?ˈ tré ⁺topày ʾə́tla.ˈ b-k̭ésa ɟávo ɟamə̀šta c-⁺asríva.ˈ ⁺ʾarabána ci-⁺ṱamràvaˈ bətxárən ʾána surùytiˈ ⁺ʾarabánət ci-⁺ṱamrìvaˈ c-áviva ⁺bəsyára tré nìrə ɟavé,ˈ tré nìrə.ˈ tré nírə znàčetˈ xá xu-⁺sə́rtəla ɟàvo,ˈ lélə xélo ⁺mṱàˈ ʾé xíta꞊da ci-mazyəddívala ⁺ʾàlloˈ yánət ⁺palṱívala ʾáyya ⁺ʾarabàna.ˈ níra bí k̭èsa ⁺ṱúrsəva,ˈ bətyáva ⁺ʾal-k̭dàlət ɟemə́šta.ˈ mən-xúta ⁺bəsyárova bí ⁺xòləˈ yánət ɟaršàvala ʾáyya ⁺ʾarabàna.ˈ ⁺ʾarabána ʾə́tvala tré pàllə ⁺bək̭ráyəva,ˈ pàllə.ˈ bí tré pállə ʾátxa ⁺ṱurə̀stəva.ˈ pàlla.ˈ pàlla.ˈ tré k̭èsəna pálla.ˈ ⁺ʾal-dan-pállə mə́xyəva tàxtə,ˈ ʾáyən k̭á … mə́ndi mattétət ⁺ʾàllo.ˈ k̭amáy ʾicə-ṱ-íva ʾan-pàlləˈ ⁺táma ʾə́tva xá-xta níra ⁺ṱùrsəvaˈ yánət ʾo-níra ⁺ʾal-k̭dálət ɟemə́šta mattìvaləˈ i b-xólə b-⁺yasrìval,ˈ yánət b-k̭dálo xéla mxàyəlaˈ b-⁺rušanáno bəɟràšəla.ˈ ʾína ṱ-íva lèva xélo ⁺mṱáyaˈ bí dán pállə ʾət-dáy ⁺ʾarabána xíta c-⁺asríva xá ɟemə́šta xìtaˈ k̭amáy bí ⁺xòləˈ yánət ʾáyən꞊da ⁺ʾal-⁺hári ʾodàvaˈ ɟaršàvala.ˈ ʾána ʾáyya bətxàron.ˈ hí bətxàronˈ k̭ám xá xamšì šə́nnə,ˈ k̭ám xamšì šə́nnə.ˈ k̭ám ⁺tarrèniva ʾé dúctaˈ ṱ-íva … ʾé pī́s dúcta k̭ám ⁺tarrèniva.ˈ ⁺táma ⁺ròba ⁺ṱína c-áviva.ˈ ⁺xárta níxa nìxaˈ muyyìle,ˈ dríle mən-dán cìpəˈ ⁺šùlə,ˈ vidàle.ˈ dáx mašxənníva bətvàtə? táza hál꞊t ⁺ʾoríva pèčəˈ ʾə́tva núyra ⁺ʾarálləġ꞊ət bèta.ˈ beté xá ⁺ʾòtaġ꞊vaˈ xá bètəva.ˈ lá màrənˈ ⁺ʾal-xá k̭unjíyya c-áviva k̭ənyànə,ˈ ⁺hayvā̀n.ˈ ⁺ʾal-de-bár xína ʾə́tvale xa-⁺k̭arávat k̭á … ɟanè,ˈ k̭a-dmàxa.ˈ ⁺ʾarálləġ ʾə́tvale núyrət ⁺ʾaràlləġ ci-⁺k̭arívalə.ˈ ⁺ʾúllul ʾə́tva xá ⁺bə̀zzaˈ švík̭əva càva.ˈ cáva švík̭əva ɟú lámpa ⁺ʾùllul.ˈ yánət ʾo-tə́nna ⁺palə̀ṱva.ˈ i núyra ci-⁺šeríva ⁺ʾarálləġ꞊ət bèta.ˈ núyra ⁺bəšyàrəva,ˈ b-dó nuyra bəšxànəva.ˈ ⁺k̭usárta čumbə́ltəva ⁺ʾál nùyra.ˈ vídəva hə́nna bí màptulˈ ⁺sə́rtəva k̭azànča.ˈ ⁺k̭usarté bašúlova ⁺tàmaˈ ⁺ʾal-dó nùyra.ˈ ⁺xárta ʾət-txúrtət díyyi ʾànaˈ ʾáyya lə̀tva ʾúže.ˈ ʾə́tva ʾúže … pḕč,ˈ pḗč bí prə́zla ⁺ṱurə̀sta.ˈ ʾadíyya꞊da ʾáxnan pèčə múttəx.ˈ hí péčə mattùyəxˈ b-k̭èsə bəšxánəx.ˈ ʾadíyya xácma dúle ⁺ɟā̀z ʾə́ttənˈ bí ⁺ɟā̀z bəšxánəx.ˈ ʾica baxtátə ci-bašlìva? ⁺ʾal-do nùyra.ˈ ⁺k̭azánčət mī̀s ʾə́tvale.ˈ baxúšta ʾət-k̭èsəvaˈ ʾína xà ⁺k̭azánča ʾə́tvale.ˈ cúllə mə́ndi b-dàyən bašlíva.ˈ ʾṓ꞊t ʾə́tvalə trè,ˈ ⁺ṱlà,ˈ ʾàniˈ xáč̭č̭a jə̀ns bəxxáyəva.ˈ hì,ˈ ⁺k̭azánčət mī̀s ⁺bək̭ráyova.ˈ mìsˈ hám꞊da hə́nnə m-⁺ùydalə ⁺xvíṱəvaˈ ʾalumī̀n.ˈ mən-dan-⁺k̭azánčə ʾə̀ttən pyáša.ˈ ʾə́t xácma mənné ṱ-avìle pyášaˈ ɟu-p̂atvā̀l,ˈ ʾatìk̭ə ṱ-avíle,ˈ ʾína ʾáni ʾádi xína lèna maplúxə.ˈ hì,ˈ ɟu-dé ⁺k̭azánčət mī̀sˈ čumbə́lta ⁺ʾal-nùyra ci-bašlíva.ˈ ɟu-darta? k̭éṱa ɟu-dàrtaˈ sə́tva ⁺ʾál do-núyrət ⁺ʾaràlləġ.ˈ sə́tva ɟu-bètaˈ ʾo-núyra bəlláyələ yánət šaxinùyta yávvəl.ˈ hám ⁺k̭usarté꞊da čumbə́ltəva ⁺ʾál … màptulˈ bašúlə ɟu-dàyən.ˈ i cúllə bədráyəva ɟu-xa-mànaˈ ⁺bixáləva p̂-idè.ˈ ʾáyya léla ⁺róba də̀rranɟˈ k̭ám xá šávvi ⁺tmáni šə́nnə ʾàtxəva.ˈ ⁺ṱā̀ltaˈ surùytanˈ ⁺ṱálaxva ⁺badùšəva šə́mma …ˈ c-amráxlə ⁺badùša.ˈ ⁺badúša muxrə́ppa k̭èsələ.ˈ ṱína c-odáxva ⁺sùvaġˈ yánət ʾo ⁺badúša ⁺ṱā̀sva.ˈ xá m-dēn-ṱ-íva mxáyu ⁺maṱṱùsuˈ ʾó xína yár manpə̀lva k̭a-⁺dávən.ˈ ʾə́n munpə̀lvalux,ˈ ⁺bək̭ràmutva.ˈ dìyyux꞊va.ˈ ⁺xárta ʾé xíta mxayòxva.ˈ ⁺ṱlá ɟanàyˈ ⁺ʾàrp̂aˈ ci-⁺ṱaláxva ⁺badùšə.ˈ ci-⁺k̭ármaxva k̭ésə k̭a-pìšə,ˈ labláxva sə́tva bèta.ˈ yāl-sùrəxva xína.ˈ ci-⁺ṱaláxva mə́drə tàsma.ˈ tásma ci-mattàxvalə ʾátxaˈ ʾódaxva xá ⁺yàzan,ˈ ⁺yàzan.ˈ ⁺ṱlá ɟanáy ɟavày꞊naˈ ⁺ṱlá ɟu-⁺tàrrəna.ˈ ɟárət ʾé tásma mə́n dé ⁺yázan ɟannəvvə̀tta.ˈ ʾə́n ɟnivávalux xá tàsmaˈ ⁺xárta b-dáyən mxàyətˈ marrùk̭ətˈ ɟar-ʾe-xìta ɟannəvvə́tta.ˈ ʾá-spar ʾáyən꞊da bəɟnàvotˈ ⁺xárta ʾe-d-ṱlà bəɟnávot.ˈ ʾà-sparˈ ʾan-ṱ-ína ɟavàyˈ ʾé tásma ɟárət šak̭lìla p̂-íduxˈ yánət ⁺k̭àrmiˈ yá xá ɟár ⁺k̭àrmiˈ yá ʾo-xìna.ˈ ʾə́n šk̭ilàvale,ˈ ʾá-spar ʾáni ⁺várəva ɟu-⁺yàzanˈ ʾánnə ⁺pláṱəva ɟu-⁺tàrra.ˈ b-lelavàyˈ ʾána bətxárən c-azáxva láb savúni nanùntiˈ ʾáni c-avívalə màccə.ˈ máccə ⁺ròba c-avívalə.ˈ ʾárrət beté ʾùprəva.ˈ c-avíva də́ryə ⁺táma ⁺k̭ùxaˈ c-aváxva tívə màccə práxa.ˈ cúllə navə́ɟɟət savùniˈ calàtuˈ c-aváxva tívə máccə pràxa.ˈ məttəlyày ci-hak̭ìvaˈ ʾan-sàvə k̭átanˈ ʾáxnan c-aváxva màccə práxa.ˈ ⁺ʾal-⁺harè vádəxva xína.ˈ sə́tva ci-payyíva ⁺lavàšəˈ ⁺ʾál tanùyra.ˈ hál ʾátxa ⁺dànaˈ cúllə yúma šíma ci-payyìva.ˈ ɟu-méša ci-xarzivalè,ˈ ⁺ʾə́sra ⁺ʾə́sra dànəˈ ci-labláxvale ⁺ʾál mdìta.ˈ yə́mmi ci-lablávale ⁺ʾal-mdìtaˈ ci-zabnàvaleˈ yán zonáva mə́n ⁺xàltaˈ hám꞊da ci-zonáva k̭àmxaˈ mayyáva yánət ⁺ʾal-dó-yuma xína mə́drə payyìva.ˈ b-dàyya bəxxáyəxva.ˈ ʾə́tva ʾə̀rxə?ˈ ʾə́rxə ʾə̀tvalan láxxa.ˈ ʾə́rxə ʾadíyya šópo pyàšələˈ ʾína ɟáno lə̀ttən.ˈ ⁺xə́ṱṱə máccə ci-labláxva ci-taxnàxva.ˈ hí … ʾàxnan ʾúžeˈ jī́s bətxàrox ʾe-ʾə́rxə xína.ˈ ʾərxíyyət mìyyəvaˈ mən-⁺ʾúllul bitáyəva šak̭ìyya.ˈ ʾə́tvala šìva,ˈ šìva ʾə́tvala lišān-dìyyan.ˈ bí táxtə ⁺ṱúrsəva šìva.ˈ ʾə́ltəx ʾə́tva ⁺tòpaˈ ʾan-míyya bətpáxəva ⁺ʾal-de-⁺tòpa,ˈ ʾáyən partùləva.ˈ bí ɟarúma ⁺ʾúllul ʾə́tvala cìpa,ˈ trè cípəˈ xà-danaˈ cə̀lyələˈ ʾṓ꞊t ⁺ʾúllul partùləvaˈ ʾán míyya maplùxuva.ˈ í bədráyəva ɟávo ⁺xə́ṱṱə ɟu-xá … ⁺ʾav mú꞊iva šə̀mmu ⁺ʾávva hə́nna?ˈ ⁺ṱúrsəva bí tàxtə,ˈ ʾícət ci-daráxvale ʾán ⁺xə̀ṱṱəˈ k̭ésa mùttəva.ˈ ʾo-k̭èsaˈ ʾo-cípa k̭át ʾo-k̭ésə ṱ-íva maplùxəˈ ʾú hə́nnət ⁺xə́ṱṱə bəjvàjəvaˈ yán tapxìva,ˈ bí xà ⁺ʾárra ɟárət tapxìva.ˈ ci-maclíval bí … ⁺ʾal-⁺k̭áydu cmá ⁺làzəm꞊la.ˈ ⁺róba ʾə́n ʾàtiˈ ɟarùsa váyəva k̭ámxa.ˈ ʾé-dān ṱ-íva maclúyu ʾərxàčiˈ bí ⁺xòləva ⁺ʾávunˈ vàdəva.ˈ partùluva,ˈ maclúyuva ⁺ʾal-šòpu.ˈ í ⁺xárta ɟašúk̭uva k̭ámxa p̂-ìduˈ ʾən-jī̀s k̭ámxa bitáyəva.ˈ ɟári šaxìna꞊da lá-ʾativa,ˈ ɟári ɟarùsa꞊da lá-ʾativa.ˈ í bətxànuvaˈ xá myešók bədráyəva ⁺ʾúllul ɟu-dó tàxtaˈ xá myešók k̭ámxa ⁺bəsláyəva mən-cìpa.ˈ ⁺xárta máyuva béta ⁺bənxàluva.ˈ ʾó ɟarúsa váduva ⁺bùlč̭u.ˈ ⁺búlč̭u ci-⁺yáṱṱət mù꞊ila?ˈ ⁺búlč̭u k̭ámxət màccə꞊daˈ k̭ámxət ⁺xə̀ṱṱə꞊da c-odíva ⁺bùlč̭u.ˈ ʾó ɟarùsaˈ c-odívalə ⁺bùlču.ˈ bašlívalə ɟu-míyya ⁺bərdàxaˈ í daríval mə̀šxa,ˈ mə̀šxaˈ yá꞊da ⁺xàlva.ˈ ʾó dàyk̭uˈ ⁺ʾávun ci-payyíval làxma.ˈ ci-lešìva.ˈ xmìra ʾə́tvalan k̭ámta.ˈ ʾadíyya drožži-naˈ ʾadíyya xìmiya vádəna ɟávu.ˈ k̭ámta ʾə́tvalan xmìra.ˈ ʾó xmíra mə́n … béta ⁺ʾal-béta ci-⁺ṱalbìvalə:ˈ hállə xmírax mə̀nniˈ payyàna.ˈ k̭údmə mayyànnə.ˈ xmìra,ˈ léša ⁺xmìsaˈ yánət k̭a-do-xína꞊da maxmìvaˈ lēn-⁺bəddá lípət ʾátən xmìra?ˈ ci-lešìvaˈ ci-macsìvalə léšaˈ yánət xamìva.ˈ ṱ-íva bəxmàyaˈ ⁺xárta bədráyəva cùndəˈ pyáyəva ⁺lavàšə,ˈ ɟərdàyəˈ ɟu-tanùyra.ˈ sə̀tvaˈ ʾàyyəva pəlxánətˈ … búš baxtày ci-payyívaˈ ʾé-danət ʾúrzə lə̀tvale pəlxána,ˈ hì?ˈ ʾé ⁺dána baxtáy ci-payyíva k̭àmxa.ˈ ci-lablàxva,ˈ ci-zabnàxva,ˈ ci-šak̭làxvaˈ ⁺xálta ci-mayyíva k̭a-yāl-sùrə.ˈ dáxiva ⁺xzàtta?ˈ xzí ⁺ʾal-dá ⁺xzátta ʾáxnan lḕx ⁺mə́ṱyə.ˈ ʾáxnan lḕx ⁺mə́ṱyəˈ šə́nnət díyyan xàč̭č̭əna.ˈ ʾàtxaˈ xə̀zyənˈ ⁺šə̀myənˈ yánət ci-⁺xazdìvaˈ c-odíva bùləˈ ci-mayyíva bèta.ˈ ʾə́tvale sùysaˈ yá k̭ənyànaˈ ⁺bəsyárəva ⁺ɟamə́šta ɟu-dé hə̀nna.ˈ partúlova yánət ʾán ⁺xə́ṱṱə ⁺palṱìvalə.ˈ ʾáyya ʾáxnan lḕx ⁺mə́ṱyə.ˈ ⁺dórət díyyan lèva úžə.ˈ ʾàniˈ ⁺ʾávun xá ⁺dóra xìnəva.ˈ ⁺ʾávun k̭àm díyyanˈ babavàtət díyyan,ˈ sávuni hám꞊da bàbiˈ ɟu-do-⁺dóra ʾàniva.ˈ ⁺bùdraˈ ʾáxnan ʾal-⁺búdra lḕx ⁺mə́ṱyə.ˈ ʾáxnan mṱìlanˈ ʾə́tva k̭olek̭tìv.ˈ k̭olek̭tìvˈ …ˈ ṱí ⁺muràleˈ cúllə … ci-⁺jammíva ⁺táma ɟu-dé k̭olek̭tìv,ˈ ⁺ʾálma ci-mapləxxìvalˈ ⁺xárta ci-yavvìvalə,ˈ mən-dó pəlxànuˈ ci-yavívalə xácma mešòɟəˈ yánət sə́tva ⁺mavə̀rvala xína.ˈ ʾan꞊t ʾə́tvale cármət ⁺ʾànvəˈ cármət ⁺ʾànvəˈ ɟáva ɟávu c-odíva ⁺màšəˈ ɟav-dán zulàlu.ˈ ʾúpra ʾé-ɟa xàč̭č̭əvaˈ k̭a-⁺ʾálma léva yáva ⁺ʾúpra ⁺ròba.ˈ ʾupránət díyyan xàč̭č̭əva.ˈ hádax vàdəvaˈ yánət ⁺ʾànvə꞊da ʾavívaleˈ ⁺mā̀š꞊da ʾavívaleˈ cmá ṱ-iva ʾúpra mlàya.ˈ búš c-odáxva ⁺mā̀š k̭ámta.ˈ c-odíva calàma,ˈ ⁺xyàrə,ˈ sə̀lk̭aˈ ʾó mə́ndi ṱ-ílə k̭á sə́tva ⁺làzəmˈ k̭a-ɟanè.ˈ ⁺k̭urtòpə.ˈ ⁺k̭urtópə xú lišān-dìyyan꞊lə,ˈ hì?ˈ mən-ɟə́pta vádəxva ⁺xàmra.ˈ ɟə́pta ⁺ʾànvəna.ˈ ⁺xámra mújjurra vaduxvà?ˈ ʾə̀tvalanˈ čàraz ⁺ṱurə́stəva.ˈ sávuni ʾə́tvalə čàraz ⁺ṱurə́stəva.ˈ ʾə́ltəx múttəva tàxtəˈ mən-⁺ʾúydalə rə̀k̭k̭a,ˈ ⁺bəzzàzə ʾə́tvale zulálə.ˈ ʾán ⁺ʾánvə ci-daráxvale ⁺tàmaˈ c-ask̭àxvaˈ ʾák̭lan xupyày.ˈ yāl-súrə ci-mask̭ívalan ⁺ṱlá ⁺ʾarp̂á ɟanàyˈ c-aváxva ⁺mràč̭a.ˈ i ʾə́ltəx ʾə̀tvalaˈ ʾàtxaˈ sùraˈ ⁺bə̀zza,ˈ mən-⁺táma ʾó ⁺xámra bitàyəva ɟúˈ ⁺k̭azànča.ˈ bəšk̭àluvaˈ bədráyuva ɟu-bòšk̭aˈ ɟu-⁺lìna.ˈ i ⁺xárta ⁺ʾávun ṱ-íva ⁺bəxmàsa,ˈ bək̭váya ʾalk̭ólət ⁺xàmruˈ ʾá-spar púmmu mač̭rùyuva.ˈ mattùyəvaˈ xá cìpaˈ mač̭rúyuva bí ɟàjˈ bí ʾúpra zàrda,ˈ i ṱašúya k̭á sə̀tva.ˈ ⁺bár hàda.ˈ ⁺lína ptàxuvaˈ tammùzuvaˈ ⁺palùṱuvaˈ k̭a-štéta ⁺xàmra.ˈ ci-xamìvaˈ xzùyra k̭a-sə́tva.ˈ ʾə́tvale k̭ənyànə.ˈ c-odíva k̭àlya.ˈ ⁺ʾávva k̭àlyaˈ ʾo-dìyyan꞊ləˈ t-suràyələ,ˈ ⁺búsrət k̭ənyána ⁺ɟùra,ˈ tavə̀rta.ˈ ⁺ʾávun ci-k̭alìvalə.ˈ ci-daríva ʾállu mə̀šxa.ˈ ci-mattíval ⁺ʾàvun꞊da k̭a-sə́tva.ˈ pyášələ ⁺ròba ⁺dána,ˈ lélə bəxràva,ˈ ṱ-ílə k̭ùlyaˈ ɟu-mə̀šxa.ˈ ⁺ʾávun c-avívalə ⁺k̭arṱòpəˈ c-avívalə … sə́tva ci-⁺moràxval níxa níxa mú.ˈ ʾàrak̭,ˈ ʾárak̭ váduxva mə́n dó … ʾó ṱ-íva pyáša mən-⁺xàmra,ˈ ʾó pùlluš.ˈ mən-⁺dávun ⁺palúṱəxva ʾàrak̭.ˈ ʾə́tlan ⁺k̭azánčət ʾàrak̭.ˈ ʾadìyya꞊daˈ lḕt muxziyyú?ˈ ⁺k̭azánčət ʾàrak̭ ʾə́ttənˈ k̭a-ʾárak̭ ⁺paláṱṱa ⁺k̭azànča ʾə́ttən.ˈ ʾo ʾárak̭ bədráyuna ɟu-bòšk̭aˈ pyášələ k̭á … hál꞊t ⁺rə́dxu càlə.ˈ ʾé-⁺dān ṱ-ílə ⁺bərdàxaˈ lè ⁺páləṱ ʾárak̭.ˈ ɟári ⁺rə́dxu càlə.ˈ ⁺bár clétət ⁺rə̀dxuˈ bədráyuna ɟu-de-⁺k̭azànča.ˈ ʾə́tla ʾáyən csèta,ˈ macùsona.ˈ ʾu-cséta ʾə́tla ⁺bə̀zza.ˈ hìˈ mən-dó ⁺bə́zza mattúyuna ɟu-ṱrùbaˈ ɟu-xòda.ˈ ⁺táma mìyyəna.ˈ ʾá hə́lma ṱ-ílə ⁺bərdàxaˈ ʾó hə́lma bərrə́ššələ ɟu-dó ⁺ṱrùba,ˈ ɟu-míyya bək̭k̭àšələˈ ʾó hə̀lma.ˈ hí vàyələˈ ⁺naṱupyày.ˈ hí mən-dó ⁺ṱrùbaˈ ⁺bəsláyəna ⁺naṱupyàyˈ ɟú ⁺bòṱul.ˈ ⁺ṱašuyévax xína k̭á ⁺xartè.ˈ ⁺méta ci-⁺mayyávala bàxta.ˈ k̭ámta ⁺xálva ⁺mardùxuva.ˈ bədráyəva ⁺xə̀msa xá čámčaˈ màsta ɟávu.ˈ pyášəva k̭a-dó móriša xìnaˈ ʾú ⁺bèrašəˈ ṱ-íva pyáša k̭a-móriša váyəva màsta.ˈ ʾé másta bədráyova ɟu-⁺mèta.ˈ púmmo ⁺bəsyárova bìˈ … púmmət dé ⁺méta ⁺bəsyàruvaˈ i xúto mattúyəva muttàcca.ˈ muttácca ɟlùltəlaˈ ʾátxa ⁺yarə̀xta.ˈ xút ⁺mèta,ˈ xút císo mattùyuva.ˈ ʾé ⁺méta ʾátxa labúlo màyova,ˈ ⁺marúmo maccùpovaˈ hál꞊t … hál꞊t ʾatyàvaˈ ʾé másta váyəva ⁺càrra.ˈ ʾo ⁺cárra bəšk̭áluva b-nòšu,ˈ ʾíta ⁺ʾávun pyášəva ⁺dàvvə.ˈ b-⁺dávvə ci-bašláxva bušàla.ˈ bušála ⁺šə̀myət hí?ˈ bušàla.ˈ bušála c-odíla bí sə̀lk̭a,ˈ bí ⁺tòlə,ˈ càraz.ˈ ʾáyya hə́nnət suràyəla,ˈ ⁺xáltət suràyəla.ˈ zóda hə́č-naša lélə ⁺bəddáyo ʾàyya.ˈ ʾá bušála hə́č-naša lèlə bəddáyo.ˈ ʾo ⁺càrra꞊daˈ ci-mapšərrìval,ˈ c-odíval mə̀šxa,ˈ ci-mattíval ɟu-bancyày.ˈ búš cúllə ⁺hazərrúyta c-odívala k̭a-sə̀tva,ˈ yánət sə́tva čàtun꞊va xéta.ˈ ʾáni ɟárət šák̭liva k̭a-ɟanèˈ k̭a-⁺xartè.ˈ ⁺méta ʾàtxəva.ˈ ⁺méta ʾadìyya꞊da ʾə́tlan ʾáxnan pyàšəla,ˈ ʾína xína ʾáxnan lḕx maplúxo.ˈ ʾə́tloxun tanùyrə? tanúyra ʾə̀tlan.ˈ ʾána k̭údmə ɟáni pyàyənva,ˈ ʾána pyáyənva ⁺lavàšə.ˈ ʾávətva p̂ṱ-ávətva xə̀zya hí?ˈ k̭údmə pìli ʾána ɟáni,ˈ ʾána bàxta.ˈ báxta ⁺darrùnəvaˈ bí ⁺doràna.ˈ ⁺dorànaˈ ʾátxa k̭ésa ɟlùlələ.ˈ ⁺dorànələ šə́mmu lišā́n꞊t suràyə hí.ˈ ʾə́ttən tàxta.ˈ ⁺ʾal-dé táxta mattúyəna cùndaˈ bí ⁺dorána ⁺darrùnuna.ˈ ⁺xárta bədráyuna ⁺ʾál ⁺drananè.ˈ maptùyuna,ˈ maptùyuna.ˈ ʾə́tlan màzrak̭.ˈ ʾátxa màzrak̭ ʾə́tlan.ˈ ⁺ʾal-dé mázrak̭ šavùyut.ˈ mázrak̭ ʾə́tla xúto ⁺bə̀zza.ˈ ʾátxa bədvàk̭otˈ hí bí dé màzrak̭ˈ ʾo ⁺laváša mxáyut ɟu-tanùyra.ˈ ɟu-xá dak̭ík̭a bšàlələ,ˈ bəsmàk̭əl,ˈ ⁺házər vàyələ,ˈ nàzucˈ ⁺lavášət suràyə.ˈ ṱ-ī́x ⁺lavášə pyàyaˈ xá ʾə̀sri,ˈ tláy dànəˈ ⁺xárta pyáyəna ⁺bár lavàšəˈ ɟərdàyə,ˈ ɟərdèta.ˈ ɟərdéta ʾə́tla mazrák̭ət ɟànoˈ ʾḗ꞊t ɟərdèta ɟlùltəla,ˈ súrṱa mazràk̭꞊laˈ ʾán ɟərdáyə mxayéna ɟáv tanùyra.ˈ macùsuna.ˈ ʾáni xáč̭č̭a ⁺róba ɟárət bàšli,ˈ hál꞊t lá sàmk̭i.ˈ í ⁺xárta ⁺paluṱéva ʾàni mən-ɟávu.ˈ k̭á xà šábta,ˈ k̭àmta,ˈ k̭ámta ʾó ⁺ʾálma ʾatík̭a ci-payyíva k̭á xà yárxa.ˈ ci-daríva ci-mabrəzzìvalə.ˈ í ⁺xárta ci-mattìvaləˈ yánət sə́tva cúl-yum lá payyìva.ˈ ⁺xárta ci-⁺palṱíva ʾo-láxma brìzaˈ ci-nammənnìvalə,ˈ ɟú rùšnuc nimánaˈ carməxxìvaləˈ yánət racə̀xva.ˈ hí mən-⁺dávun c-⁺axlìva.ˈ ʾadíyya pyáyəna cút šábta xà-ɟa.ˈ ʾána k̭údmə pìliˈ k̭údmə píli k̭a-xá … k̭a-xá šábta mlàyanˈ k̭a-cúllə ʾójax ⁺bixàla.ˈ ⁺ʾávun basìmələ.ˈ ʾá láxma zvìnaˈ ⁺ṱáma lə̀tlə ʾət-hə̀č-məndi.ˈ b-k̭èsə ⁺bəšyárux tanúyra,ˈ b-k̭èsə,ˈ hí b-k̭èsə.ˈ tanúyra ⁺ṱúrsələ b-ʾúpra zàrda,ˈ k̭ùlyələ.ˈ múttələ hádax yánət cálət maxə̀ttə.ˈ k̭ámta tanúyran ɟu-⁺ʾàrrəva.ˈ baxtáyə ci-yatvíva ⁺ʾál … ⁺ʾál ⁺ʾàrra,ˈ ⁺ʾál jùllaˈ ʾíta ci-maxìvalə.ˈ ʾína ⁺xárta ʾó tanúyra mattúyuva ⁺ʾal-pàtaˈ xáč̭č̭a ⁺ʾùllulˈ yánət ⁺ʾal-ʾák̭lux cálət pàyyət.ˈ ⁺ʾal-ʾak̭lé clàyənaˈ háda pyàyəna.ˈ ʾə́tva xaṱùra? hí k̭ámta ʾə́tvale ⁺xaṱùra.ˈ ci-mattìvaleˈ ci-xašlìvaleˈ jùlləˈ bí dó k̭èsaˈ yán p̂-idèˈ ʾan-júllə ɟúrət dmàxaˈ ṱ-ína malàpə.ˈ ʾáni x-là-⁺ʾamsi,ˈ p̂-idé lèva ⁺myasa masívale.ˈ ʾátxa vadèva,ˈ matruyèvaˈ mattuyéva b-⁺k̭ùṱma.ˈ ʾána bətxárən b-⁺k̭ùṱma ci-masìvale.ˈ ⁺k̭úṱma ci-⁺yàṱṱət?ˈ ʾó ⁺k̭úṱma ṱ-ílə ɟu-tanùyraˈ ṱ-ína k̭èsəˈ b-da-⁺k̭ùṱma,ˈ ⁺bənxàluva,ˈ b-dó ⁺k̭ùṱmaˈ k̭ámta ⁺sabun lə̀tva.ˈ b-⁺k̭úṱma júllə ci-masìvale.ˈ ⁺xárta ⁺və́rrə ⁺sàbunˈ mən-dó ⁺sabúnət … ʾàtxaˈ ⁺ɟúra ⁺sàbunˈ ʾət-⁺ʾurusnàyəˈ švə́k̭le ⁺sàbunˈ xá jùrra.ˈ ʾá-spar plə́ṱle sàynə.ˈ k̭ámta sáynət k̭èsəvaˈ b-táxta ⁺ṱarúsəva sàyna.ˈ sáyna ci-yàṱṱət mú꞊ila?ˈ ɟáv cú-məndi ṱ-ína msàya.ˈ ⁺xárta plə́ṱle ʾət-prə̀zla-uže.ˈ ⁺bár dán꞊t k̭ésa úžə plə́ṱle ʾət꞊prə̀zla.ˈ ci-lešíva lèša꞊daˈ ɟu-sáynət k̭èsa ʾə́tvalanˈ jə̀pnəva šə́mmu.ˈ šə́mmu jə̀pnələ,ˈ ʾícə ṱ-íva léša bəlyàša,ˈ láxma léša ṱ-íva bəlyàšuˈ jə́pnət k̭èsəva,ˈ šə́mmu jə̀pnəva.ˈ ʾadiyya mànələ,ˈ ʾadíyya mànələˈ ʾət-prə̀zla,ˈ ʾət-alumìn.ˈ hì,ˈ ʾáyən jə̀pnəva šə́mmu.ˈ ʾət-léša jə̀pna ci-⁺k̭arívala.ˈ šak̭iyyày ʾə́tvaloxun? šak̭iyyày ʾə́tvalan?ˈ hì.ˈ xá šak̭íyya làxxəvaˈ ɟu-da-⁺ʾalúla sùra ʾátxa.ˈ dúla ʾadíyya꞊da šak̭íyya vèla.ˈ véla xa-šak̭ìyya.ˈ xá-xta xáč̭č̭a l-ò-yba.ˈ ʾán šak̭iyyáy háda vìdəva.ˈ mən-⁺ʾúllul c-atyáva šak̭íta ⁺ɟùrta,ˈ ⁺xárta ⁺pallúyəva ⁺ʾál ⁺ʾalulā̀n.ˈ ʾé-dān ṱ-íva míyya ⁺ròba,ˈ mlàyəva.ˈ ʾé ⁺dána xìtaˈ bí nobànə.ˈ ʾúdyu nobət dìyyilə.ˈ ⁺xárta nobət ⁺dàvvələ.ˈ mánilə nòbuˈ ⁺ʾàvun ci-maštíva.ˈ šak̭íyya ci-šok̭áxvala ɟu-bàxčəˈ ɟu-bavày.ˈ bavày c-odáxva,ˈ hí bàva.ˈ báva mù꞊ila?ˈ báva … hádax ⁺ṱarùsoxva.ˈ marzanáno ⁺marúməxva ʾùpra.ˈ ɟávo ⁺bəzràyətˈ ⁺bùslə.ˈ báva ʾavíla marzanànəˈ yánət míyya ṱ-īt-bəšvak̭é ɟàvoˈ m-l-á-yba xína là tápxi,ˈ ʾé báva šàtya.ˈ ʾátxa cúllə c-aváxva vidé bí bavàyˈ bàxča.ˈ ʾə́tva bavátət ⁺màšəˈ bavátət ⁺xyàrə,ˈ bavátət ⁺bùslə,ˈ tùymaˈ cút-xa bávu b-nòšuva.ˈ šə́mmət dáyən bàvəl.ˈ báva mújjurra tanə̀nnuxˈ ʾàtxa vádoxvaˈ ⁺yarəxnètaˈ láxxa vádəxva tìra.ˈ tìra.ˈ tíra lḕt ⁺bədda ʾátən.ˈ tíra ʾátxa ṱ-īt-ʾúpra ⁺marùmuˈ ʾátxa hì?ˈ hì,ˈ ʾátxa bí tìraˈ baváy prášəva m-⁺ùydalə.ˈ ʾátxa bí tiránə bavày,ˈ hì.ˈ hí ɟu-de-báva míyya bəšvak̭ḗtvaˈ ṱ-íva bərrə́šša ⁺ʾal-prák̭to ⁺mṱàya,ˈ bədvàk̭otvaˈ ʾá-spar bəšvak̭ḗtva l-ó-yba xìnaˈ ɟu-dó … báva xína bərrə̀xšəva.ˈ xá ⁺ṱlá ⁺ʾarp̂á ⁺saháttə c-aváxva maštúyo bàxča.ˈ cúllə ci-maštiyyàxvala.ˈ ʾá-spar míyya ci-šok̭àxvale,ˈ c-azə́lva ʾo-xìna,ˈ švàva,ˈ xə̀zman,ˈ švàvanˈ ci-maštìva,ˈ ʾan-ṱ-íva-uže mən-⁺bár díyyan k̭a-maštùyə.ˈ ʾadíyya šak̭iyyáy lə̀ttən.ˈ prə̀k̭le.ˈ tlə̀xle.ˈ hə́č-naša lélə vadè.ˈ lə̀tlan míyya.ˈ ʾadíyya maštúyəx mən-k̭ùnya.ˈ m-k̭únya maštúyəx b-bə̀rk̭a,ˈ mòṱor,ˈ ⁺nàsus,ˈ cúllə bí šlànɟ maštúyəx.ˈ mən-ʾícəna bitáya míyyət štèta? míyyət štéta k̭ùnya ʾə́tlan.ˈ k̭únya ʾə̀tlan.ˈ ham꞊da ʾə́t mənné ʾə́tle mìyya.ˈ xú xzìlux,ˈ ṱ-ína bitàyaˈ ɟú … ʾàni꞊da míyyət štètəna,ˈ ṱ-ína ⁺bəzyè,ˈ ⁺pláṱəna ɟanè.ˈ dáx꞊iva bətvátə ɟu-K̭ánda k̭àmta? táza ʾət-ʾína tìyyəˈ ʾána xácma betanànə,ˈ bətxarḕn,ˈ betanánət ʾùprəva.ˈ bí ʾàləz ⁺ṱúrsəva.ˈ càrpəč.ˈ ɟané ⁺ṱarúsəva bí ʾùpra,ˈ bí tùyna.ˈ túyna ci-⁺yàṱṱət hí?ˈ tùyna,ˈ ɟə́lla barùyzaˈ ci-⁺xoṱívalə bí do-⁺ṱìnaˈ c-odíva carpìčə.ˈ ci-mabrəzzívale ⁺ʾal-yùma.ˈ b-dáni bnáyəva bèta.ˈ xá … b-xá dàna,ˈ ⁺ʾarp̂á ɟuydanànəˈ xá bèta.ˈ c-odívalə … ⁺k̭arávat ⁺ɟùrtaˈ k̭a-cúllunte m-⁺ùydalə damxíva,ˈ bàba,ˈ yə̀mma,ˈ yàlə,ˈ ʾál déxa ⁺k̭aràvatˈ damxíva cúllə ⁺tàma.ˈ saccunyày c-odíva.ˈ saccùnta,ˈ sàccun.ˈ ʾáyən꞊da bnìtəlaˈ pə́tvo xá mètraˈ k̭a-dmàxa,ˈ k̭a-dmàxa,ˈ xína ʾṓ꞊t k̭àmta,ˈ ʾé꞊ɟət k̭àmta.ˈ ʾànaˈ … ɟu-dá ⁺dórət díyyan ʾátxa lə̀tva ʾína.ˈ bàlma ci-daríva xuté,ˈ bàlma.ˈ bàlma.ˈ ʾíman ⁺xə́ṱṱə ṱ-ílə pyàšaˈ ʾo-bàlma,ˈ ʾo-ɟə́lla hí barùyza,ˈ ⁺ʾal-⁺dàvən ci-damxíva.ˈ ʾàyya-uže,ˈ ʾáyya ⁺ròba k̭ámtəva hí.ˈ saccunyày,ˈ sáccun mù꞊ila?ˈ də́pnət ɟúyda bnàyənaˈ bí do-ʾùpraˈ yá bí dan-carpíčət ʾúpra bnàyəvaˈ xà métra,ˈ xáč̭č̭a ⁺basùraˈ ɟùydaˈ də́pnət ɟùydaˈ mə́drə ɟúyda bnáyəva ʾáxči cùpaˈ k̭a-dmàxtət ⁺ʾállu,ˈ k̭a-⁺xàltət ⁺ʾállu.ˈ ʾé-ɟət tìle,ˈ lə́tva tàxta,ˈ lə̀tvale hə́č mə́ndi.ˈ ṱ-í ʾət-táza ⁺ʾalméni tíle láxxa lə̀tvale hə́č mə́ndi.ˈ ɟu-ɟuybanànə ci-xayyíva,ˈ ɟùybaˈ pálɟət béta ɟu-ʾùprəva.ˈ pálɟu múcsəva bí ʾùpra ʾátxa,ˈ ʾàtxa,ˈ ɟùyba. ɟùyba,ˈ znàčet,ˈ pálɟu ɟu-ʾùpra,ˈ pálɟu ⁺ʾál pā̀t-duca,ˈ ʾə̀ltəx,ˈ yánət šaxə̀nta ʾoyáva.ˈ ⁺k̭aryày,ˈ ci-mattíva k̭èsə.ˈ ci-daríva zìla,ˈ zìla,ˈ dárzə b-zìlaˈ ci-⁺yasríva dàrzə.ˈ ci-daríva ⁺ʾállu … ʾùpraˈ yánət šaxìna ʾavíva.ˈ ʾátxa ɟlùla váduvaˈ ⁺xárta mən-dan-dárzət zíla ci-xarzíva ⁺ʾàlluˈ yánət míyya ɟávu là ⁺salíva,ˈ ⁺salíva ⁺ʾal-màrza.ˈ c-oyáva ʾé-⁺dān ṱ-íva ⁺múṱra xelánta bitàya,ˈ bədlàpəva,ˈ bətràyəva.ˈ ɟàrə? hí ɟaravày꞊da ʾə́tva.ˈ ɟára ʾú-uže ɟárə dùz꞊ilə.ˈ ⁺ʾávun dùz꞊ilə.ˈ ʾə́tva dalùpə? dalúpə vàyəva híˈ yánət t-lá-ʾaviva mən-⁺ʾúllul … ɟandərríva ʾállu mə̀ndi.ˈ ci-ɟarpívalə tàlɟa? tálɟa ci-ɟarpìval hí.ˈ tálɟa c-àvə,ˈ ɟarpìvaləˈ ⁺múṱra x-là-⁺ʾamsi ɟarpívala.ˈ ⁺múṱra ṱ-íva bitáya xelànta,ˈ lè-⁺ʾamsi ɟarpívala.ˈ ʾé-⁺dana c-atíva dalupyày.ˈ tálɟa c-ask̭ìva,ˈ canšìvalə,ˈ tamməzzìvalə.ˈ bəcnášəva m-⁺ál ɟàrəˈ yánət lá ⁺salyàva.ˈ ʾànaˈ tré betanánə pyášəva ɟu-surúytət dìyyiˈ ʾána xəzyḕn ʾáni.ˈ b-mú bəcnàšəva? b-mù bəcnašəvá?ˈ bí canùšta.ˈ canúšta ci-⁺ṱarsíva bí … ʾə́ttən ɟə́lla ⁺támma ʾícəna bat-⁺k̭uravày.ˈ ɟə́llət canùšta ʾə́ttən.ˈ hám꞊da canúšta ʾə́ttən bək̭yáməla ɟu-baxčanā̀n.ˈ canušyáy ci-⁺ṱarsívale ⁺hàzərˈ yánət ʾavívale k̭a-sə̀tva.ˈ ʾáy ʾadíyya ⁺bár xá yàrxa,ˈ uže-⁺dā́n canúšta ṱ-atyàni,ˈ ɟári canùšta.ˈ ʾadíyya꞊da ⁺bəsyárəx canùštaˈ k̭á dárta cnàštaˈ canúštət ɟánan bèta.ˈ ʾə́tva panjàrə? ʾə́tva panjàra.ˈ ʾə́tva càva,ˈ ʾán betanánət ʾàləz.ˈ panjára m-ìca?ˈ ʾé-ɟa šúyša lə̀tva.ˈ ʾə́n xá náša ʾavíval xá šùyša.ˈ càvə ʾə́tva,ˈ càva ci-⁺k̭arívalə.ˈ ʾə́tva hádax ⁺dána ʾət-k̭ənyànəˈ tavə̀rtaˈ hám꞊da ⁺ʾálma m-⁺ùydalə ci-xayyíva.ˈ tavə́rta꞊da sə́tva ci-⁺morívala ɟav-bèta.ˈ ʾé-⁺dānət ⁺bayyáva ⁺jyàrtaˈ ʾó ⁺ɟórət bètaˈ ci-⁺p̂armìva bíyyoˈ ci-šak̭ə́lva màna,ˈ ci-davə́k̭va xùtoˈ yánət rìxa là-ʾaviva.ˈ ɟu-⁺jyárto davə́k̭valə k̭àmo,ˈ ⁺jeràva.ˈ ⁺palə́ṱva tapə̀xval.ˈ cullə ⁺heyvanə ɟu-bètəva? cúllə làˈ tavə̀rta,ˈ bíyya b-⁺zàyo,ˈ tavə̀rta.ˈ ctètaˈ lèva ⁺lázəm ɟu-bèta.ˈ xzùyra léva ⁺lázəm ɟu-béta.ˈ láxxa hádax k̭árta lèla ɟu-Gúrjəs-⁺tanˈ yánət xablìva.ˈ xzúyra lè xábəl.ˈ xzúyra ɟu-⁺tàrra ci-pāš.ˈ šə́mmət bétət xzúyrə mùdilə? k̭ə́nnət xzùyraˈ k̭ə́nnət xzúyra꞊da c-odívala dáx꞊t … ɟu-⁺ʾàrraˈ ɟu-⁺ʾárra ɟùyba c-odíva.ˈ ɟu-ɟúyba xzúyra ⁺táma c-⁺avə́rva sə̀tva.ˈ ⁺ʾárra šaxə̀ntəla.ˈ ci-⁺k̭erívala ʾátxa ⁺ʾàrra.ˈ ci-macsìvalə,ˈ daríva ⁺ʾállu ʾùpraˈ yánət ʾo-xzúyra꞊da šaxìna ʾavíva.ˈ ⁺xṱìtuva xína.ˈ ctayáy ʾə́tvale nìnə.ˈ nínət ctayày ci-⁺k̭arívalaˈ ʾícə ṱ-ína ctayàyˈ ʾicə ṱ-ína ⁺bəryàpa,ˈ nìnə ⁺bək̭ráyona.ˈ hí bétət ctayáy nìnələ šə́mmo,ˈ nìnə.ˈ ʾàtxaˈ k̭èsə ci-mattívaˈ yask̭íva ⁺ʾal-dán k̭èsə ⁺yarpíva.ˈ ⁺ʾúllul macùsovaˈ yánət ⁺múṱra b-rišé là-ʾatyava.ˈ k̭a-bíyyə ci-mattíva ʾərbàla,ˈ ʾərbála ʾatə́k̭ta ci-mattíva ɟávo tùynaˈ yánət ʾé ctéta ɟu-dé ʾərbàla mattáva bíyyə.ˈ ci-maxpívala꞊da ʾé-⁺danət ʾan-bíyyo ṱ-íva ⁺bəjmá zòdaˈ ṱ-íla k̭apk̭ùpə ctéta,ˈ k̭apk̭ùpəˈ bíyyə ṱ-íla mattúyə ⁺ròbaˈ k̭apk̭ùpəla.ˈ ⁺xárta ⁺palúṱəla ⁺zàyə.ˈ ɟu-dé ʾərbàlaˈ ⁺ʾal-dó ɟə̀lla.ˈ ci-maxpívala ⁺ʾal-dan-bìyyəˈ ʾəsrí xá bìta ci-mattíva xùto.ˈ ʾàtxəva.ˈ lḗn-⁺bədda k̭a-mù.ˈ ʾadíyya꞊da ʾátxa vàdəna,ˈ ʾəsrí xà bíta,ˈ hì,ˈ í ci-maxpìvala,ˈ ci-⁺palṱáva ⁺záyə sùrə.ˈ hì,ˈ ctèta.ˈ ⁺xárta ʾan-⁺záyə ɟarvùsənaˈ yánət xa-⁺xàrta ʾavíle.ˈ ʾan-sàvəˈ pràməva.ˈ ʾan-jìləˈ ɟarvúsəva váyəva ctayày.ˈ ʾáy k̭ə́nnət ctayáy šə́mmu nìnəva.ˈ šə́mmət bétət dabášə mùdilə? ci-⁺k̭araxlə k̭ə́nnət dabàšə.ˈ ʾáni ʾə́tle k̭ə́nnət ɟanè,ˈ k̭utíyyət ɟanè.ˈ ʾə́tla ⁺bə̀zza ʾáyən.ˈ ʾáni ⁺pláṱəna ⁺várəna ⁺xálta vádəna k̭a-ɟanè.ˈ ɟanèˈ ⁺ṱarúsəna ⁺xàltaˈ mən-dà ʾilána,ˈ mən-p̂ə̀c̭xa,ˈ ʾá xá xixə̀ccələ.ˈ ʾá ʾilána šə́mmu xixə̀ccələ,ˈ xixə̀cca.ˈ xixə̀cca.ˈ mən-dá bəšk̭áləna mən-cúllə ⁺róba dùyša.ˈ ⁺xárta ʾadìyya,ˈ ʾadíyya ⁺dánət ⁺paláṱṱət dùyšəla.ˈ yárət ʾána xàzzənˈ ɟu-dánnə yumánə ɟári ⁺pàlṱənˈ dùyša.ˈ xáč̭č̭a ⁺palúṱət k̭a-ɟànuxˈ xáč̭č̭a bəšvák̭ət k̭a-dàni,ˈ yánət ʾáni꞊da sə́tva xú léna ⁺myasa ⁺xálta màčxi.ˈ mən dé ⁺xáltət dàniˈ ʾàxnan bəšk̭áləxˈ pálɟə k̭a-dìyyan,ˈ pálɟə k̭a-dabàšə.ˈ ʾə́ttən xelàpa.ˈ ʾə́ttən xixə̀cca.ˈ ʾə́ttən ⁺camùtra.ˈ xabùyša,ˈ tùyta.ˈ túyta xu-lišān-dìyyan꞊la.ˈ ɟòza,ˈ pəndə̀k̭k̭a.ˈ ⁺tambùyrə,ˈ tambúrta ʾə́ttən.ˈ ʾə́ttən ⁺ɟilàsta ʾə́ttən.ˈ balbalùk̭ta ʾə́ttən.ˈ k̭a-díyyux tánən xína mù ʾə́ttən?ˈ ⁺k̭aralū̀ɟ.ˈ vàrdə? vàrda,ˈ lišánət ɟánan šə̀mmuˈ xá ʾáxči ci-⁺yaṱṱə́nnə vàrdaˈ smùk̭a,ˈ várda ⁺xvàra,ˈ várda zàrda.ˈ ʾátxa b-šəmmanè,ˈ úžə šəmmánət díyyan lèna ⁺ʾallé.ˈ c-óya ʾət-dìyyanˈ ʾáxnan lḕx ⁺bəddáya.ˈ c-óya ʾət-dìyyan꞊na.ˈ ʾə́ttən zaprā̀n.ˈ k̭a-sə̀tvaˈ c-odáxva k̭a-k̭ənyànəˈ c-odáxən ʾadìyya꞊da,ˈ ɟə̀lla ⁺bəxzádəx,ˈ mabrùzux,ˈ vádux ɟdìša.ˈ ⁺bəxzádəx pučèčə.ˈ pučèčə lḗn ⁺bəddá lišān-dìyyan꞊lə.ˈ màccə.ˈ máccə ṱ-ína bràza,ˈ ⁺ṱára ⁺palùṱut.ˈ ʾan-máccət ⁺bəxzadḕtˈ vadét dàrza.ˈ ʾan-dárzə꞊da bəxrazḗx ⁺ʾal-⁺ʾuydàlə,ˈ yánət ⁺múṱra ɟavé là ⁺sálya,ˈ là xárvi.ˈ i sə̀tvaˈ xá dárza pučèčə ⁺maxulḗxˈ xá xp̂ák̭a꞊da ɟə̀lla bədráyəxˈ ɟu-pàɟa.ˈ móriša ci-k̭émax xuté ci-tamməzzìlə.ˈ ci-⁺xalvìle.ˈ daríle ⁺xàlta.ˈ ci-⁺morìle,ˈ mìyya ci-maštíle ʾé-⁺dān ṱ-íla k̭àrta.ˈ ʾé-⁺dān ṱ-íla xáčča šaxinùyta,ˈ ⁺pláṱəna ɟu-⁺tàra,ˈ bəštáyəna mìyya,ˈ ⁺maxulèna,ˈ mayèna,ˈ ⁺mavuréna mə́drə ɟu-pàɟa.ˈ dràyəna,ˈ ʾə́tle ʾuravàyˈ šəmmé ʾuravày꞊lə.ˈ b-táxta ⁺ṱúrsəna ʾuravày.ˈ ʾu-ɟə́lla ɟu-ʾuraváy bədràyunaˈ yánət lá bazbək̭k̭ílə xút ʾak̭lè,ˈ k̭a-sə́tva ɟə̀lla,ˈ hám꞊da pučèčə.ˈ pučèčəˈ ʾánnə máccə prìmə ṱ-ína,ˈ máccə brìzə ṱ-ína,ˈ ʾo-⁺ʾək̭ré ṱ-ílə bràza,ˈ ⁺ʾávun šə́mmu pučèčələ.ˈ ⁺ʾávun vádux dàrzə.ˈ hám ɟə́lla ⁺bəxzádux bí ɟalándi ɟu-⁺čòl.ˈ máyux bèta,ˈ mattúyux ɟdìša.ˈ í sə́tva mən-⁺dávun bəšk̭àlənaˈ ⁺maxulèna.ˈ múdi c-odítuva k̭a-sə́tva? k̭àlya ci-k̭alíva.ˈ ⁺k̭urṱópə ci-⁺ṱašìva,ˈ ɟané ⁺k̭urṱòpə.ˈ calàmə.ˈ turšìyyə ci-dok̭íva.ˈ turšíyyə xu-⁺bəddàyət hí?ˈ turšíyyət ⁺bùybar,ˈ ʾət-calàmə,ˈ ʾət-⁺badəmjànə.ˈ ⁺màšə ci-avívale.ˈ xá tré mešóɟə ⁺màšə.ˈ k̭átux tànənˈ xzúyra ci-parmìva.ˈ ci-mattívalə ɟu-míyya mə̀lxaˈ yánət lá xàrəvva.ˈ ⁺palṱìva,ˈ ci-⁺xallìva,ˈ c-odíva ⁺dòlma.ˈ ṱàrpə ci-dok̭íva,ˈ ṱárpət ɟə̀pta.ˈ ⁺ṱárpət ⁺ɟə̀pta,ˈ ʾáyya dòlmaˈ ṱárpət sùrayəla.ˈ dólmət ⁺ṱárpə b-⁺k̭àttəġ,ˈ b-tùyma.ˈ ʾadìyya꞊da cúllə ʾánnə vadḕx ʾáxnan.ˈ ʾadíyya꞊da c-odàxle.ˈ harìsa ci-bašlíva,ˈ harìsa.ˈ šəmyəttə̀ harísa?ˈ harísa ⁺xə̀ṱṱə ci-bašlívale.ˈ ɟavé ci-ódi ⁺bùsra.ˈ búš ⁺k̭àza c-odíva ɟáv harísa k̭ámta.ˈ ʾadíyya b-ctèta váduna.ˈ xína k̭ámxət màccə c-avívale,ˈ ⁺bùlč̭u c-odíva.ˈ níxa níxa sə́tva ci-⁺morìvalə xína.ˈ ʾə́tva tàlɟa? ʾé-ɟət surúyti ⁺ròba c-atíva tálɟa.ˈ ʾána bətxárən ṱ-ī́nva sùra,ˈ ɟu-dàrtaˈ nanúnti ptáxəva bí lap̂àṱk̭aˈ ʾátxa ʾùrxa.ˈ xá métra … mən-métra zòda c-ávivaˈ ⁺ràma.ˈ ʾé-⁺dana ⁺hàsəl꞊da bitáyəva jī̀s.ˈ ʾadíyya baruzùytəla.ˈ ⁺hásəl lèla bitá.ˈ ʾé-ɟa ʾo-tálɟa ṱ-i-c-atìvaˈ ⁺ʾávun mlàyəva k̭á …ˈ do-mə̀ndi,ˈ k̭a-ʾilànə,ˈ k̭á … yéməš mlàyəva.ˈ ʾadíyya tálɟa láxxa ⁺basùra bitáyələ.ˈ búš k̭àrta váyəla.ˈ maɟdálta ⁺ròbəla.ˈ ʾurxáy ⁺róba pī̀s꞊va.ˈ ʾúrxay bí ⁺ʾarabànə,ˈ bí cállə bí xèla c-áziva m-áxxa mən-ɟu-da-⁺ʾalúla.ˈ ⁺tammòˈ ʾána l-ó-yba bəxxàyən,ˈ ⁺támma ʾə́tva šak̭ìyya.ˈ ⁺ʾarabána ci-⁺ṱamràva,ˈ ⁺ʾarabána ⁺bəddàyət hí?ˈ tré ⁺topày ʾə́tla.ˈ b-k̭ésa ɟávo ɟamə̀šta c-⁺asríva.ˈ ⁺ʾarabána ci-⁺ṱamràvaˈ bətxárən ʾána surùytiˈ ⁺ʾarabánət ci-⁺ṱamrìvaˈ c-áviva ⁺bəsyára tré nìrə ɟavé,ˈ tré nìrə.ˈ tré nírə znàčetˈ xá xu-⁺sə́rtəla ɟàvo,ˈ lélə xélo ⁺mṱàˈ ʾé xíta꞊da ci-mazyəddívala ⁺ʾàlloˈ yánət ⁺palṱívala ʾáyya ⁺ʾarabàna.ˈ níra bí k̭èsa ⁺ṱúrsəva,ˈ bətyáva ⁺ʾal-k̭dàlət ɟemə́šta.ˈ mən-xúta ⁺bəsyárova bí ⁺xòləˈ yánət ɟaršàvala ʾáyya ⁺ʾarabàna.ˈ ⁺ʾarabána ʾə́tvala tré pàllə ⁺bək̭ráyəva,ˈ pàllə.ˈ bí tré pállə ʾátxa ⁺ṱurə̀stəva.ˈ pàlla.ˈ pàlla.ˈ tré k̭èsəna pálla.ˈ ⁺ʾal-dan-pállə mə́xyəva tàxtə,ˈ ʾáyən k̭á … mə́ndi mattétət ⁺ʾàllo.ˈ k̭amáy ʾicə-ṱ-íva ʾan-pàlləˈ ⁺táma ʾə́tva xá-xta níra ⁺ṱùrsəvaˈ yánət ʾo-níra ⁺ʾal-k̭dálət ɟemə́šta mattìvaləˈ i b-xólə b-⁺yasrìval,ˈ yánət b-k̭dálo xéla mxàyəlaˈ b-⁺rušanáno bəɟràšəla.ˈ ʾína ṱ-íva lèva xélo ⁺mṱáyaˈ bí dán pállə ʾət-dáy ⁺ʾarabána xíta c-⁺asríva xá ɟemə́šta xìtaˈ k̭amáy bí ⁺xòləˈ yánət ʾáyən꞊da ⁺ʾal-⁺hári ʾodàvaˈ ɟaršàvala.ˈ ʾána ʾáyya bətxàron.ˈ hí bətxàronˈ k̭ám xá xamšì šə́nnə,ˈ k̭ám xamšì šə́nnə.ˈ k̭ám ⁺tarrèniva ʾé dúctaˈ ṱ-íva … ʾé pī́s dúcta k̭ám ⁺tarrèniva.ˈ ⁺táma ⁺ròba ⁺ṱína c-áviva.ˈ ⁺xárta níxa nìxaˈ muyyìle,ˈ dríle mən-dán cìpəˈ ⁺šùlə,ˈ vidàle.ˈ dáx mašxənníva bətvàtə? táza hál꞊t ⁺ʾoríva pèčəˈ ʾə́tva núyra ⁺ʾarálləġ꞊ət bèta.ˈ beté xá ⁺ʾòtaġ꞊vaˈ xá bètəva.ˈ lá màrənˈ ⁺ʾal-xá k̭unjíyya c-áviva k̭ənyànə,ˈ ⁺hayvā̀n.ˈ ⁺ʾal-de-bár xína ʾə́tvale xa-⁺k̭arávat k̭á … ɟanè,ˈ k̭a-dmàxa.ˈ ⁺ʾarálləġ ʾə́tvale núyrət ⁺ʾaràlləġ ci-⁺k̭arívalə.ˈ ⁺ʾúllul ʾə́tva xá ⁺bə̀zzaˈ švík̭əva càva.ˈ cáva švík̭əva ɟú lámpa ⁺ʾùllul.ˈ yánət ʾo-tə́nna ⁺palə̀ṱva.ˈ i núyra ci-⁺šeríva ⁺ʾarálləġ꞊ət bèta.ˈ núyra ⁺bəšyàrəva,ˈ b-dó nuyra bəšxànəva.ˈ ⁺k̭usárta čumbə́ltəva ⁺ʾál nùyra.ˈ vídəva hə́nna bí màptulˈ ⁺sə́rtəva k̭azànča.ˈ ⁺k̭usarté bašúlova ⁺tàmaˈ ⁺ʾal-dó nùyra.ˈ ⁺xárta ʾət-txúrtət díyyi ʾànaˈ ʾáyya lə̀tva ʾúže.ˈ ʾə́tva ʾúže … pḕč,ˈ pḗč bí prə́zla ⁺ṱurə̀sta.ˈ ʾadíyya꞊da ʾáxnan pèčə múttəx.ˈ hí péčə mattùyəxˈ b-k̭èsə bəšxánəx.ˈ ʾadíyya xácma dúle ⁺ɟā̀z ʾə́ttənˈ bí ⁺ɟā̀z bəšxánəx.ˈ ʾica baxtátə ci-bašlìva? ⁺ʾal-do nùyra.ˈ ⁺k̭azánčət mī̀s ʾə́tvale.ˈ baxúšta ʾət-k̭èsəvaˈ ʾína xà ⁺k̭azánča ʾə́tvale.ˈ cúllə mə́ndi b-dàyən bašlíva.ˈ ʾṓ꞊t ʾə́tvalə trè,ˈ ⁺ṱlà,ˈ ʾàniˈ xáč̭č̭a jə̀ns bəxxáyəva.ˈ hì,ˈ ⁺k̭azánčət mī̀s ⁺bək̭ráyova.ˈ mìsˈ hám꞊da hə́nnə m-⁺ùydalə ⁺xvíṱəvaˈ ʾalumī̀n.ˈ mən-dan-⁺k̭azánčə ʾə̀ttən pyáša.ˈ ʾə́t xácma mənné ṱ-avìle pyášaˈ ɟu-p̂atvā̀l,ˈ ʾatìk̭ə ṱ-avíle,ˈ ʾína ʾáni ʾádi xína lèna maplúxə.ˈ hì,ˈ ɟu-dé ⁺k̭azánčət mī̀sˈ čumbə́lta ⁺ʾal-nùyra ci-bašlíva.ˈ ɟu-darta? k̭éṱa ɟu-dàrtaˈ sə́tva ⁺ʾál do-núyrət ⁺ʾaràlləġ.ˈ sə́tva ɟu-bètaˈ ʾo-núyra bəlláyələ yánət šaxinùyta yávvəl.ˈ hám ⁺k̭usarté꞊da čumbə́ltəva ⁺ʾál … màptulˈ bašúlə ɟu-dàyən.ˈ i cúllə bədráyəva ɟu-xa-mànaˈ ⁺bixáləva p̂-idè.ˈ ʾáyya léla ⁺róba də̀rranɟˈ k̭ám xá šávvi ⁺tmáni šə́nnə ʾàtxəva.ˈ	As for a game, in our childhood we used to play what was called _⁺baduša_. We used to call it _⁺baduša. ⁺Baduša_ is a sharpened stick. We used to make mud into mortar so that the _⁺baduša_ would stick in. One of those who were hitting it would stick it in, the other had to make it fall. If you made it fall, you won it. It was yours. Then we would hit another one. Three or four of us would play _⁺badušə_. We used to win sticks for keeps and take them home in the winter. We were young children. We also used to play ‘belt.’ We used to place the belt like this in order to make a circle, a circle. Three people are inside and three are outside. You must steal the belt from the circle. If you steal a belt, then you beat with this and drive (the others) away and you must steal another one. Now you steal also that. Then you steal the third one. Now, those who are inside must take the belt from your hand in order to win, either one must win or the other. If they took it, then they go into the circle and the others go outside. At night, I remember, we used to go to the house of my grandfather and grandmother. They used to have maize. They had a lot of maize. The floor of their house was earth. They had laid there a pile and we used to sit hulling the maize. All of the grandchildren of my grandfather, his daughters-in-law, we used to sit hulling the maize. The old men used to tell us stories while we were hulling the maize. We were helping them. In winter they baked flat breads on (the walls of) the oven. Until a time such as this they baked all day long. They laid them out in the wood, in tens, and we took them to the town. My mother took them to the town and sold them, or she used to buy some food, and also used to buy flour and bring it back so that they could bake again the next day. By this we lived. Was there a watermill? We had a watermill here. The place of the watermill remains, but it itself is not there. We would take wheat and maize and grind them. Yes, we remember that watermill well. It was a mill (operated by) water. A stream came from above. It had a trough (for carrying water) (_šiva_). It had (what we call) a trough (_šiva_) in our language. The trough was made of planks. Underneath there was a wheel. The water would pour on the wheel and it would turn. On an axle on top it had a stone, two stones, one was stationary, the one on top turned. Water made it work. They used to put wheat in it in a …. What was the name of that thing? It was made of planks, where we used to pour the wheat they placed a stick. That stick, that stone when the stick that it was operating, the thing of the wheat, was moving, or (the wheat) had to pour down as one. They used to stop it according to its measure as much as was necessary. If a lot came, the flour was coarse. When the miller stopped it, he would do this with a rope. He turned it and stopped it in its place. Then he checked the flour with his hand (to see) whether the flour was flowing well. It must not come out hot nor must it come out coarse. (As) he ground it, he poured out a sack above in the plank, and a sack of flour flowed down from the stone. Then they would bring it home and sieve it. They would make the coarse flour into mash. Do you know what mash is? They used to make both the flour of wheat and also the flour of maize into mash. The coarse flour they made into mash. They cooked it in boiling water and they put oil in it, oil or milk. The fine flour they would bake into bread. They kneaded it. We used to have (natural) leaven. Now they put yeast or a chemical in it. Formerly we used to have leaven. We used to ask for the leaven from house to house: ‘Give your leaven (for me to take) with me for me to bake. I shall bring it back tomorrow.’ Leaven, sour dough, so that it would leaven the other one. I do not know whether you have learnt (about) leaven? They would knead and cover the dough in order for it to leaven. When it leavened, they would then lay out balls of dough and bake flat breads, loaves, in the oven. In winter this was the work of … mainly women would bake, when men did not have work, right? At that time the women would bake flour and we would take it and sell it. We would buy (things), and bring back food for the children. How was the harvest? Look, we did not witness the harvest. We did not witness it, since we are too young. I have seen thus, I have heard that they used to harvest, they used make (the produce) into ears of wheat and bring them home. They had a horse or a head of cattle. They used to tie a buffalo to that thing. It would turn it in order to extract the wheat. We have not witnessed that. It was not (in) our time. That was a different age. It was before our (time), (in the time of) our fathers, my grandfather and also my father, it was in _their_ time. Threshing-floor—we did not witness the threshing floor. (When) we arrived, there was a collective farm. When they introduced the collective, they all used to gather there in the collective, they gave work to the people, then they gave them, for their work, they gave them some bags (of produce) in order to pass the winter. Those who had a vineyard of grapes, vineyard of grapes, in various places within it they used to cultivate beans in its strips. Land at that time was scarce and they did not give much land to people. Our lands were few. They farmed so they would have grapes and would have beans, as much as the land would suffice. We used to cultivate mostly beans in the old days. They would cultivate cabbage, cucumbers, beetroot, what was necessary for winter, for themselves, potatoes. From the vine we would make wine. (On) a vine there are grapes. How did we make wine? We had a grape-press that was made (for the purpose). My grandfather had a grape-press that was made (for the purpose). Underneath he had placed planks, distant from one another, holes which had strips. We placed the grapes there and we went up barefoot. They used to take us children up, three or four people, and we would squash (the grapes). Underneath it had a small hole, from where the wine came into a pan. They would take it and put it in a barrel, into an earthen jar. Then, when it was becoming sour, and the alcohol of the wine is becoming strong, then they sealed its mouth. They put on a stone and sealed it with gypsum, with yellow earth, and stored it away for winter. After that they opened the jar, cleaned it and took out the wine for drinking. They used to keep a pig for winter. They had cattle. They made fried meat. This fried meat is ours, of the Assyrians, the meat of a large head of cattle, a cow. They fried it. They put oil on it. They put also this aside for winter. It keeps for a long time without going off, because it is fried in oil. It had (with it) potatoes, it had … we passed the winter slowly. Arak, we used to make arak from what remained of the wine, the grape must. From this we used to extract arak. We had a pan for arak. We still have it. Have you not shown him? There is a pan for arak. There is a pan for the production of arak. They put the arak in a barrel. It stays until its boiling stops. When it is boiling, it does not produce arak. Its boiling must stop. After its boiling stops, they put it in the pan. This has a lid and they cover it. The lid has a hole. Yes, through this hole they put it into a pipe, into a trough. There is water. The steam that is boiling, the steam goes into the pipe. The steam cools in the water. Yes, it turns into drops. Yes, from the pipe drops flow down into a bottle. We store them (the bottles of arak) for their later use. The churn was churned by a woman. First they boil the milk. They put in a spoonful of sour starter, yoghurt, in it. It remains until the next morning, it remained from the evening until morning, it becomes yoghurt. They put the yoghurt in the churn. They tie its mouth with … they tie the mouth of the churn and under it they put a bolster. A bolster is round, long like this. They placed it under the churn, under its stomach. They push the churn back and forth, up and down, until it comes, the yoghurt becomes butter. They take off the butter by itself, then what remained was buttermilk. With buttermilk we used to cook stew. You have heard about stew? Stew. They make stew with beetroot, with coriander, celery. This is an Assyrian thing, it is an Assyrian dish. Nobody else knows it. Nobody else knows this stew. They used to melt the butter, make it clarified butter and put it in jars. They made all possible preparation for the winter, because life in winter was difficult. They had to buy for themselves and for their future needs. The churn was like that. Even now we still have a churn, but we do not use it anymore. Do you have ovens? We have an oven. I myself was baking yesterday, I was baking flat breads. If you had been (here), you would have seen, yes. Yesterday I myself baked, I and my wife. My wife was rolling with the rolling pin. A rolling pin is a round stick like this. Its name is rolling pin in the Assyrian language, yes. There is a board. On the board they put a dough ball. They roll it with a rolling pin. Then they put it on their arms. They spread it out, spread it out. We have a baking cushion. We have a baking cushion like this. You lay it on the baking cushion. The baking cushion has a hole under it. You hold it like this. Yes, with the baking cushion you put the flat bread in the oven. It bakes in one minute. It becomes brown and is ready, fine Assyrian flat bread. When we bake flat bread, (we bake) twenty or thirty of them, then, after flat breads, they bake loaves, a loaf. A loaf has its own baking cushion. The one of a loaf is round. It is a small baking cushion. They put the loaves in the oven. They cover them. They must bake quite a lot, until they are brown. Then they take them out of it. For one week—formerly the old folk used to bake for one month. They laid them out to dry them. Then they put them aside, so that they would not have to bake every day in the winter. Later they would take out the dried bread and moisten it. They rolled it in a damp towel so it would become soft. Yes, they used to eat some of that. Now they bake once every week. Yesterday I baked for one … for it to be sufficient for us for one week, for all the family to eat. It is tasty. The bought bread does not have, has no taste of anything. We light the oven with wood, with wood, yes with wood. An oven is made of yellow clay, which is fired. It is placed like this so that you can stand and put (bread) in it. Formerly our oven was in the ground. The women used to sit on the ground, on a cloth, then they put it (the bread) in it. But later they put the oven on the surface, slightly above, so that you could stand on your feet and bake. They stand on their feet and bake in this way. Was there a washing-beater? Yes, formerly they had a washing-beater. They would put the clothes and pummel them with that stick, or with their hands, the big clothing of bedding, that is sheets. How can they? They could not wash them by hand. They did them like this. They wet them and put them with ash. I remember that they washed them with ash. You know ‘ash’? The ash that is in the oven—when there is wood, with that ash, they sieved it, with that ash. In the old days there was no soap. They used to wash clothes with ash. Later soap came, soap like this, big soap, of the Russians, they left soap, a type. Then tubs came out. Formerly they were wooden tubs, tubs were made of planks. Do you know what a tub is? (They put) in it whatever they wash. Then iron ones came out. After the wooden ones, iron ones came out. They also kneaded dough in a wooden tub that we had, called a kneading trough. It was called a kneading trough, where they knead dough, bread dough that they kneaded. It was a trough of wood, it was called a kneading trough. Now it is a basin, it is a basin of iron, of aluminium. Yes, its name was kneading trough. (A basin) of dough was called a kneading trough. Did you have irrigation channels? Did we have irrigation channels? Yes. There was a channel here in this small street like this. There is the channel. There is a channel. Another is a little over there. Those channels were made like that. A big channel used to come from high up, then it split into the streets. When the water was abundant, it was sufficient. Another time—by turns. Today it is my turn. Then it is his turn. Whoever’s turn it is, he would irrigate. They used to release the channel into kitchen gardens and orchard basins. We made orchard basins (_bavay_), yes an basin (_bava_). What is an orchard basin (_bava_)? We made a basin like this. Around it we would raise the earth. In it you would cultivate onions. A basin has sides, so that the water that you release into it does not spill from the other side, but the basin drinks it. In this way we used to make everything with basins, (in) a kitchen garden. There were basins of beans, basins of cucumbers, basins of onions, garlic, every basin by itself. The name of this is ‘basin’ (_bava_). Basin, what should I tell you? We used to make it like this, longish, and here we would make a basin-bank, basin-bank. You do not know what a basin-bank is. A basin-bank, like this when you raise the soil, like this, yes? Yes, in this way the basins are separated from one another. In this way the basins (are made) by banks, yes. Yes, in that basin you would release the water, which would go and reach its end, and it would hold it. Then you would release it on the other side and it would flow into the other basin. We would irrigate the kitchen garden for three or four hours. We irrigated it all. Then we released the water, and another person would come, a neighbour, a relative, our neighbour, and would irrigate, those whose turn it was after us to irrigate. Now there are no irrigation channels. They have finished. They have collapsed. Nobody takes care of them. We have no water. Now we irrigate from a well. We irrigate from a well by electricity, a motor, pump, we irrigate everything with a hose. Where does drinking water come from? Drinking water—we have a well. We have a well. There are also some who have water. You must have seen those that come (taps), in these also there is drinking water, which have holes and flow by themselves. How were houses in Canda in the old days? When they had just arrived, some of the houses, I remember them, were houses of mud. They were made of mud brick, brick. They used to build themselves with mud, with straw. You know what straw is, yes? Straw, dry grass, they mixed it with the mud and made bricks. They dried them in the sun. With these they used to build a house. One, in a single one … four walls, one house. They made for it a large bed, for them all to sleep together, father, mother, children. They all slept in that same bed. They made platforms. A platform (_saccunta_), a platform (_saccun_). It is built a metre in width for sleeping, for sleeping, (it belonged to) the old times, the old times. This was not, however, in our time. They put hay under them, hay, hay. When wheat remains, hay, the dried grass, they slept on this. This was a long time ago, yes. Platforms, what is a platform? They build on the side of the wall, with that mud, or they build with those mud bricks, a metre, a little less, a wall, next to the wall, they build another wall, but a low one for sleeping on, for eating on. When they came, there was no wooden bed, they had nothing. When our people first came here, they had nothing. They lived in pits, pit, half of the house was in the earth. Half of it was covered with earth, like this, pit. Pit, that means, half of it was in the earth, half of it on the surface, underneath, so that it would be warm. As for beams, they laid wooden logs. They laid reeds, bunches of reeds, they tied bunches. They put earth on this, so it would be warm. They made it round like this, then they lined up some of those bunches of reeds on it, so that the water would not flow down into it, but would flow down on the edge. It used to happen that when heavy rain fell, it leaked and became wet. The roof? Yes, there were also roofs. (In the singular one says) _gara_ and _garə_ is also correct. That is correct. Was there leaking? There was leaking, yes, so that it would not come from above, they would roll something on it. Did they shovel the snow? Yes, they shovelled the snow. When there was snow, they used to shovel it. They are not, however, able to shovel rain. When rain fell heavily, they were not able to shovel it and then it used to leak. The snow—they used to go up, sweep it and clean it off. They swept it from the roof so that it would not flow down. Two (old) houses remained in my childhood, I have seen them. With what did they sweep? With what did they sweep?—with a broom. They used to make a broom with … there is a grass there where the graves are. There is a broom plant. There is also a broom plant that grows in kitchen gardens. They made the brooms, ready, so they would have them in winter. Now after a month, already the time of the broom will come. We must (tie) a broom. Now too we are tying a broom to sweep the yard, our own broom at home. Were there windows? There was a window. There was an unglazed window, in the houses of mud bricks. Where would they have windows from? At that time there was no glass. Maybe one person had glass. There were unglazed windows. They called it unglazed window (_cava_). There was such a time when cattle, a cow, and also people lived together. They brought the cow into the house in the winter. When it wanted to urinate, the head of the house would know about it, he would take a bowl and hold it beneath it, so there would not be a smell. As it urinated, he would hold it before it and it would urinate. He would then take it out and pour it away. Were all the animals in the house? Not all, (only) the cow, together with its young, the cow. A chicken did not have to be in the house. A pig did not have to be in the house. Here in Georgia it is not so cold that they get cold. A pig does not get cold. A pig stays outside. What is the name of the house of pigs?—the nest of a pig. They used to make the pig’s nest like … in the ground, they made a pit in the ground. A pig spends the winter there in a pit. The ground is warm. They would dig the ground like this. They would cover it and put earth on it, so the pig would be warm, poor creature. Chickens had a coop. They called it a chicken coop (_ninə_), where there are chickens, where they roost, they call it a coop. Yes, the house of chickens is called a coop, coop. They used to lay pieces of wood like this. They used to go up on those pieces of wood and roost. They covered the top so that rain would not come onto them. They used to put a sieve for the eggs, an old sieve, in which they put straw, so that the hen would lay eggs in the sieve. They would make it brood when an excess of its eggs accumulated and when the chicken was clucking, clucking, when it lays a lot of eggs it clucks. Then it produces chicks in that sieve on the grass. They make her brood on the eggs. They put twenty-one eggs under her. It was like that. I do not know why. Now also they do this, twenty-one eggs. Yes. They make her brood (on them) and she produces small chicks, yes, the chicken. Then the chicks grow, so they would have (chickens) in the future. They slaughter the older ones. The younger ones grow and become chickens. The name of the chickens’ nest is coop (_ninə_). What is the name of the house of bees? They called it a bees’ nest. They have their own nest, their own box. This has a hole. They go out and come in, making food for themselves. They make food themselves from this tree, from the blossom, this is a hawthorn tree, a hawthorn, a hawthorn. They take most of the honey from this. Well, now, now is the time for the production of honey. I must see, in these days I must produce honey. You produce some for yourself and you leave some for them, because also they indeed in winter cannot find food. From that food of theirs we take half of it for us and half of it for the bees. There is a willow tree. There is a hawthorn tree. There is a pear tree, apple tree, mulberry tree—‘mulberry’ (_tutya_) is surely our language—walnut tree, hazelnut tree, plum trees, this is the plum tree. There is the sweet cherry tree. There is the dark cherry tree. What else can I tell you?—black sour plum. Flowers? Flower—in our language I only know the one name ‘flower’ (_varda_)—red, white flower, yellow flower. Thus (they are called) by their names, our names are not (given) to them. It is possible (that there are names) of ours, but we do not know. It is possible (there are names) of ours. There is saffron. For winter we used to make for the cattle, we make also now, we harvest grass, we dry it and make a stack. We harvest stalks of maize (_pučečə_). I do not know if _pučečə_ is our language. Maize, when maize dries, you take off the head of maize. You make the maize that you harvest into a bundle. We arrange these bundles on top of each other, so that the rain does not flow down into them, so that they do not rot. In winter we feed them a bundle of maize stalks and we put an armful of grass in the stable. In the morning we get up and they clean under them. They milk them. They put food down for them. They bring them in and give them water to drink when it is cold. When there is some warmth, they go outside, they drink water. They feed them. They bring them back, and put them again in the stable. They put—they have mangers, their name is ‘mangers.’ Mangers are made of a plank. They put grass in the mangers, so they do not scatter it under their feet, for winter grass, also maize stalks. Maize stalks, when the maize plants are cut, when the maize plants are dry, when their root dries, this is called ‘maize stalk’ (_pučeča_). We make this into bundles. We also harvest grass with a scythe in the countryside. We bring it home and put in a heap, and in winter we take some of this and feed them. What did you used to do for winter? We fried preserved fried meat (_k̭alya_). They stored potatoes, potatoes by themselves, cabbages. They made pickles. You know what pickles are, right?—pickles of chilli, of cabbage, of tomatoes. They had beans, two or three bags of beans. I tell you they used to slaughter a pig. They used to put it in salt water so that it would not rot. They took it out, they washed it, and made _dolma_, they preserved leaves, leaves of the vine. Vine leaves—this _dolma_ is an Assyrian leaf, _dolma_ consisting of leaves with white cheese, with garlic. We make them now also. They used to cook _harisa, harisa_. Have you heard of _harisa_? _harisa_—they used to cook wheat. They put meat in it. Formerly they more often put goose in _harisa_. Now they make it with chicken. Well, they used to have maize flour and they used to make mash. They slowly passed the winter. Was there snow? In the time of my childhood there was a lot of snow. I remember when I was young my grandmother used to open up a path in the courtyard with a shovel. It was a metre or more than a metre high. At that time good produce was available. Now there is drought, and produce is not available. When the snow came, it filled the trees, the fruit. Now less snow comes. It is colder. The freeze is intense. The roads were very bad. The roads—they used to go with effort with carts, with buffaloes from here, from this street. Over there, I live over there, there was a channel there. There a cart used to sink (and get stuck)—you know a ‘cart,’ right? It has two wheels. They tie a buffalo to it with wood. A cart would get stuck, I remember in my childhood, the carts that used to get stuck, they tied two yokes to them, two yokes, that is, one that was tied to it was not sufficiently strong and they added another, in order to pull the cart out. A yoke was made of wood, sitting on the neck of a buffalo. They would tie it (the buffalo) from underneath with ropes so that it could pull the cart. The cart had two shafts, as they call them, shafts. It was made with these shafts—shaft, shaft. A shaft consists of two pieces of wood. On these shafts they fixed planks, this was for the placing of something on it. In front, where the shafts were there was again a yoke, which they made, so that they could place the yoke on the neck of the buffalo, and they tied it with ropes, with the result that it applies force with its neck and pulls with its shoulders. But when it happened that it did not have the strength, with the shafts of another cart they tied another buffalo at the front with ropes so that this also would help to pull it. I remember that. Yes, I remember that, fifty years ago, fifty years ago. The place that was before our door. The worst place was before our door. There was a lot of mud there. Later, gradually, they brought and laid some stones and so forth and they fixed it. How did they heat houses? Before the time when stoves came in, there was a fire in the middle of the house. Their house was one room, it was one room. Indeed I am saying, in one corner there were cattle, animals. On the other side they had a bed for themselves, for sleeping. In the middle they had what they called a central fire. Above there was a hole, a window light was left (open). A window light was left in the ceiling above so that the smoke could escape. They used to light the fire in the middle of the house. They lit the fire and they warmed themselves with that fire. The cooking pot was hung over the fire. They made something with wire, on which the pan was tied. They cooked in their pot there, on the fire. Later, as I remember, this was not there anymore, there was a stove, a stove made of iron. Now also we have installed stoves. Yes, we have installed stoves, we warm ourselves with wood. Now some have gas, we warm ourselves with gas. Where did the women cook? On the fire. They had a copper pan. The stirring spoon was wood, but they had a pan. They cooked everything in that. Anybody who had two or three—they used to live rather well. Yes, they called it a copper pan. Copper and something were also mixed together, aluminium. Those pans are still in use. There are some who still have some in the basement, who have old ones, but they do not use them anymore. Yes, in that copper pan, suspended on the fire, they used to cook. in the yard?—In the summer in the yard, in the winter on the central fire. In the winter the fire burned in the house to give warmth. Also their pot was suspended on a wire, and they cook with this. They put everything in one vessel and ate with their hands. This was not very long ago, something like seventy or eighty years ago.

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⁺ṱā̀ltaˈ surùytanˈ ⁺ṱálaxva ⁺badùšəva šə́mma …ˈ c-amráxlə ⁺badùša.ˈ ⁺badúša muxrə́ppa k̭èsələ.ˈ ṱína c-odáxva ⁺sùvaġˈ yánət ʾo ⁺badúša ⁺ṱā̀sva.ˈ xá m-dēn-ṱ-íva mxáyu ⁺maṱṱùsuˈ ʾó xína yár manpə̀lva k̭a-⁺dávən.ˈ ʾə́n munpə̀lvalux,ˈ ⁺bək̭ràmutva.ˈ dìyyux꞊va.ˈ ⁺xárta ʾé xíta mxayòxva.ˈ ⁺ṱlá ɟanàyˈ ⁺ʾàrp̂aˈ ci-⁺ṱaláxva ⁺badùšə.ˈ ci-⁺k̭ármaxva k̭ésə k̭a-pìšə,ˈ labláxva sə́tva bèta.ˈ yāl-sùrəxva xína.ˈ ci-⁺ṱaláxva mə́drə tàsma.ˈ tásma ci-mattàxvalə ʾátxaˈ ʾódaxva xá ⁺yàzan,ˈ ⁺yàzan.ˈ ⁺ṱlá ɟanáy ɟavày꞊naˈ ⁺ṱlá ɟu-⁺tàrrəna.ˈ ɟárət ʾé tásma mə́n dé ⁺yázan ɟannəvvə̀tta.ˈ ʾə́n ɟnivávalux xá tàsmaˈ ⁺xárta b-dáyən mxàyətˈ marrùk̭ətˈ ɟar-ʾe-xìta ɟannəvvə́tta.ˈ ʾá-spar ʾáyən꞊da bəɟnàvotˈ ⁺xárta ʾe-d-ṱlà bəɟnávot.ˈ ʾà-sparˈ ʾan-ṱ-ína ɟavàyˈ ʾé tásma ɟárət šak̭lìla p̂-íduxˈ yánət ⁺k̭àrmiˈ yá xá ɟár ⁺k̭àrmiˈ yá ʾo-xìna.ˈ ʾə́n šk̭ilàvale,ˈ ʾá-spar ʾáni ⁺várəva ɟu-⁺yàzanˈ ʾánnə ⁺pláṱəva ɟu-⁺tàrra.ˈ

b-lelavàyˈ ʾána bətxárən c-azáxva láb savúni nanùntiˈ ʾáni c-avívalə màccə.ˈ máccə ⁺ròba c-avívalə.ˈ ʾárrət beté ʾùprəva.ˈ c-avíva də́ryə ⁺táma ⁺k̭ùxaˈ c-aváxva tívə màccə práxa.ˈ cúllə navə́ɟɟət savùniˈ calàtuˈ c-aváxva tívə máccə pràxa.ˈ məttəlyày ci-hak̭ìvaˈ ʾan-sàvə k̭átanˈ ʾáxnan c-aváxva màccə práxa.ˈ ⁺ʾal-⁺harè vádəxva xína.ˈ sə́tva ci-payyíva ⁺lavàšəˈ ⁺ʾál tanùyra.ˈ hál ʾátxa ⁺dànaˈ cúllə yúma šíma ci-payyìva.ˈ ɟu-méša ci-xarzivalè,ˈ ⁺ʾə́sra ⁺ʾə́sra dànəˈ ci-labláxvale ⁺ʾál mdìta.ˈ yə́mmi ci-lablávale ⁺ʾal-mdìtaˈ ci-zabnàvaleˈ yán zonáva mə́n ⁺xàltaˈ hám꞊da ci-zonáva k̭àmxaˈ mayyáva yánət ⁺ʾal-dó-yuma xína mə́drə payyìva.ˈ b-dàyya bəxxáyəxva.ˈ

ʾə́tva ʾə̀rxə?ˈ ʾə́rxə ʾə̀tvalan láxxa.ˈ ʾə́rxə ʾadíyya šópo pyàšələˈ ʾína ɟáno lə̀ttən.ˈ ⁺xə́ṱṱə máccə ci-labláxva ci-taxnàxva.ˈ hí … ʾàxnan ʾúžeˈ jī́s bətxàrox ʾe-ʾə́rxə xína.ˈ ʾərxíyyət mìyyəvaˈ mən-⁺ʾúllul bitáyəva šak̭ìyya.ˈ ʾə́tvala šìva,ˈ šìva ʾə́tvala lišān-dìyyan.ˈ bí táxtə ⁺ṱúrsəva šìva.ˈ ʾə́ltəx ʾə́tva ⁺tòpaˈ ʾan-míyya bətpáxəva ⁺ʾal-de-⁺tòpa,ˈ ʾáyən partùləva.ˈ bí ɟarúma ⁺ʾúllul ʾə́tvala cìpa,ˈ trè cípəˈ xà-danaˈ cə̀lyələˈ ʾṓ꞊t ⁺ʾúllul partùləvaˈ ʾán míyya maplùxuva.ˈ í bədráyəva ɟávo ⁺xə́ṱṱə ɟu-xá … ⁺ʾav mú꞊iva šə̀mmu ⁺ʾávva hə́nna?ˈ ⁺ṱúrsəva bí tàxtə,ˈ ʾícət ci-daráxvale ʾán ⁺xə̀ṱṱəˈ k̭ésa mùttəva.ˈ ʾo-k̭èsaˈ ʾo-cípa k̭át ʾo-k̭ésə ṱ-íva maplùxəˈ ʾú hə́nnət ⁺xə́ṱṱə bəjvàjəvaˈ yán tapxìva,ˈ bí xà ⁺ʾárra ɟárət tapxìva.ˈ ci-maclíval bí … ⁺ʾal-⁺k̭áydu cmá ⁺làzəm꞊la.ˈ ⁺róba ʾə́n ʾàtiˈ ɟarùsa váyəva k̭ámxa.ˈ ʾé-dān ṱ-íva maclúyu ʾərxàčiˈ bí ⁺xòləva ⁺ʾávunˈ vàdəva.ˈ partùluva,ˈ maclúyuva ⁺ʾal-šòpu.ˈ í ⁺xárta ɟašúk̭uva k̭ámxa p̂-ìduˈ ʾən-jī̀s k̭ámxa bitáyəva.ˈ ɟári šaxìna꞊da lá-ʾativa,ˈ ɟári ɟarùsa꞊da lá-ʾativa.ˈ í bətxànuvaˈ xá myešók bədráyəva ⁺ʾúllul ɟu-dó tàxtaˈ xá myešók k̭ámxa ⁺bəsláyəva mən-cìpa.ˈ ⁺xárta máyuva béta ⁺bənxàluva.ˈ ʾó ɟarúsa váduva ⁺bùlč̭u.ˈ ⁺búlč̭u ci-⁺yáṱṱət mù꞊ila?ˈ ⁺búlč̭u k̭ámxət màccə꞊daˈ k̭ámxət ⁺xə̀ṱṱə꞊da c-odíva ⁺bùlč̭u.ˈ ʾó ɟarùsaˈ c-odívalə ⁺bùlču.ˈ bašlívalə ɟu-míyya ⁺bərdàxaˈ í daríval mə̀šxa,ˈ mə̀šxaˈ yá꞊da ⁺xàlva.ˈ ʾó dàyk̭uˈ ⁺ʾávun ci-payyíval làxma.ˈ ci-lešìva.ˈ xmìra ʾə́tvalan k̭ámta.ˈ ʾadíyya drožži-naˈ ʾadíyya xìmiya vádəna ɟávu.ˈ k̭ámta ʾə́tvalan xmìra.ˈ ʾó xmíra mə́n … béta ⁺ʾal-béta ci-⁺ṱalbìvalə:ˈ hállə xmírax mə̀nniˈ payyàna.ˈ k̭údmə mayyànnə.ˈ xmìra,ˈ léša ⁺xmìsaˈ yánət k̭a-do-xína꞊da maxmìvaˈ lēn-⁺bəddá lípət ʾátən xmìra?ˈ ci-lešìvaˈ ci-macsìvalə léšaˈ yánət xamìva.ˈ ṱ-íva bəxmàyaˈ ⁺xárta bədráyəva cùndəˈ pyáyəva ⁺lavàšə,ˈ ɟərdàyəˈ ɟu-tanùyra.ˈ sə̀tvaˈ ʾàyyəva pəlxánətˈ … búš baxtày ci-payyívaˈ ʾé-danət ʾúrzə lə̀tvale pəlxána,ˈ hì?ˈ ʾé ⁺dána baxtáy ci-payyíva k̭àmxa.ˈ ci-lablàxva,ˈ ci-zabnàxva,ˈ ci-šak̭làxvaˈ ⁺xálta ci-mayyíva k̭a-yāl-sùrə.ˈ

dáxiva ⁺xzàtta?ˈ xzí ⁺ʾal-dá ⁺xzátta ʾáxnan lḕx ⁺mə́ṱyə.ˈ ʾáxnan lḕx ⁺mə́ṱyəˈ šə́nnət díyyan xàč̭č̭əna.ˈ ʾàtxaˈ xə̀zyənˈ ⁺šə̀myənˈ yánət ci-⁺xazdìvaˈ c-odíva bùləˈ ci-mayyíva bèta.ˈ ʾə́tvale sùysaˈ yá k̭ənyànaˈ ⁺bəsyárəva ⁺ɟamə́šta ɟu-dé hə̀nna.ˈ partúlova yánət ʾán ⁺xə́ṱṱə ⁺palṱìvalə.ˈ ʾáyya ʾáxnan lḕx ⁺mə́ṱyə.ˈ ⁺dórət díyyan lèva úžə.ˈ ʾàniˈ ⁺ʾávun xá ⁺dóra xìnəva.ˈ ⁺ʾávun k̭àm díyyanˈ babavàtət díyyan,ˈ sávuni hám꞊da bàbiˈ ɟu-do-⁺dóra ʾàniva.ˈ ⁺bùdraˈ ʾáxnan ʾal-⁺búdra lḕx ⁺mə́ṱyə.ˈ ʾáxnan mṱìlanˈ ʾə́tva k̭olek̭tìv.ˈ k̭olek̭tìvˈ …ˈ ṱí ⁺muràleˈ cúllə … ci-⁺jammíva ⁺táma ɟu-dé k̭olek̭tìv,ˈ ⁺ʾálma ci-mapləxxìvalˈ ⁺xárta ci-yavvìvalə,ˈ mən-dó pəlxànuˈ ci-yavívalə xácma mešòɟəˈ yánət sə́tva ⁺mavə̀rvala xína.ˈ

ʾan꞊t ʾə́tvale cármət ⁺ʾànvəˈ cármət ⁺ʾànvəˈ ɟáva ɟávu c-odíva ⁺màšəˈ ɟav-dán zulàlu.ˈ ʾúpra ʾé-ɟa xàč̭č̭əvaˈ k̭a-⁺ʾálma léva yáva ⁺ʾúpra ⁺ròba.ˈ ʾupránət díyyan xàč̭č̭əva.ˈ hádax vàdəvaˈ yánət ⁺ʾànvə꞊da ʾavívaleˈ ⁺mā̀š꞊da ʾavívaleˈ cmá ṱ-iva ʾúpra mlàya.ˈ búš c-odáxva ⁺mā̀š k̭ámta.ˈ c-odíva calàma,ˈ ⁺xyàrə,ˈ sə̀lk̭aˈ ʾó mə́ndi ṱ-ílə k̭á sə́tva ⁺làzəmˈ k̭a-ɟanè.ˈ ⁺k̭urtòpə.ˈ ⁺k̭urtópə xú lišān-dìyyan꞊lə,ˈ hì?ˈ

mən-ɟə́pta vádəxva ⁺xàmra.ˈ ɟə́pta ⁺ʾànvəna.ˈ ⁺xámra mújjurra vaduxvà?ˈ ʾə̀tvalanˈ čàraz ⁺ṱurə́stəva.ˈ sávuni ʾə́tvalə čàraz ⁺ṱurə́stəva.ˈ ʾə́ltəx múttəva tàxtəˈ mən-⁺ʾúydalə rə̀k̭k̭a,ˈ ⁺bəzzàzə ʾə́tvale zulálə.ˈ ʾán ⁺ʾánvə ci-daráxvale ⁺tàmaˈ c-ask̭àxvaˈ ʾák̭lan xupyày.ˈ yāl-súrə ci-mask̭ívalan ⁺ṱlá ⁺ʾarp̂á ɟanàyˈ c-aváxva ⁺mràč̭a.ˈ i ʾə́ltəx ʾə̀tvalaˈ ʾàtxaˈ sùraˈ ⁺bə̀zza,ˈ mən-⁺táma ʾó ⁺xámra bitàyəva ɟúˈ ⁺k̭azànča.ˈ bəšk̭àluvaˈ bədráyuva ɟu-bòšk̭aˈ ɟu-⁺lìna.ˈ i ⁺xárta ⁺ʾávun ṱ-íva ⁺bəxmàsa,ˈ bək̭váya ʾalk̭ólət ⁺xàmruˈ ʾá-spar púmmu mač̭rùyuva.ˈ mattùyəvaˈ xá cìpaˈ mač̭rúyuva bí ɟàjˈ bí ʾúpra zàrda,ˈ i ṱašúya k̭á sə̀tva.ˈ ⁺bár hàda.ˈ ⁺lína ptàxuvaˈ tammùzuvaˈ ⁺palùṱuvaˈ k̭a-štéta ⁺xàmra.ˈ

ci-xamìvaˈ xzùyra k̭a-sə́tva.ˈ ʾə́tvale k̭ənyànə.ˈ c-odíva k̭àlya.ˈ ⁺ʾávva k̭àlyaˈ ʾo-dìyyan꞊ləˈ t-suràyələ,ˈ ⁺búsrət k̭ənyána ⁺ɟùra,ˈ tavə̀rta.ˈ ⁺ʾávun ci-k̭alìvalə.ˈ ci-daríva ʾállu mə̀šxa.ˈ ci-mattíval ⁺ʾàvun꞊da k̭a-sə́tva.ˈ pyášələ ⁺ròba ⁺dána,ˈ lélə bəxràva,ˈ ṱ-ílə k̭ùlyaˈ ɟu-mə̀šxa.ˈ ⁺ʾávun c-avívalə ⁺k̭arṱòpəˈ c-avívalə … sə́tva ci-⁺moràxval níxa níxa mú.ˈ

ʾàrak̭,ˈ ʾárak̭ váduxva mə́n dó … ʾó ṱ-íva pyáša mən-⁺xàmra,ˈ ʾó pùlluš.ˈ mən-⁺dávun ⁺palúṱəxva ʾàrak̭.ˈ ʾə́tlan ⁺k̭azánčət ʾàrak̭.ˈ ʾadìyya꞊daˈ lḕt muxziyyú?ˈ ⁺k̭azánčət ʾàrak̭ ʾə́ttənˈ k̭a-ʾárak̭ ⁺paláṱṱa ⁺k̭azànča ʾə́ttən.ˈ ʾo ʾárak̭ bədráyuna ɟu-bòšk̭aˈ pyášələ k̭á … hál꞊t ⁺rə́dxu càlə.ˈ ʾé-⁺dān ṱ-ílə ⁺bərdàxaˈ lè ⁺páləṱ ʾárak̭.ˈ ɟári ⁺rə́dxu càlə.ˈ ⁺bár clétət ⁺rə̀dxuˈ bədráyuna ɟu-de-⁺k̭azànča.ˈ ʾə́tla ʾáyən csèta,ˈ macùsona.ˈ ʾu-cséta ʾə́tla ⁺bə̀zza.ˈ hìˈ mən-dó ⁺bə́zza mattúyuna ɟu-ṱrùbaˈ ɟu-xòda.ˈ ⁺táma mìyyəna.ˈ ʾá hə́lma ṱ-ílə ⁺bərdàxaˈ ʾó hə́lma bərrə́ššələ ɟu-dó ⁺ṱrùba,ˈ ɟu-míyya bək̭k̭àšələˈ ʾó hə̀lma.ˈ hí vàyələˈ ⁺naṱupyày.ˈ hí mən-dó ⁺ṱrùbaˈ ⁺bəsláyəna ⁺naṱupyàyˈ ɟú ⁺bòṱul.ˈ ⁺ṱašuyévax xína k̭á ⁺xartè.ˈ

⁺méta ci-⁺mayyávala bàxta.ˈ k̭ámta ⁺xálva ⁺mardùxuva.ˈ bədráyəva ⁺xə̀msa xá čámčaˈ màsta ɟávu.ˈ pyášəva k̭a-dó móriša xìnaˈ ʾú ⁺bèrašəˈ ṱ-íva pyáša k̭a-móriša váyəva màsta.ˈ ʾé másta bədráyova ɟu-⁺mèta.ˈ púmmo ⁺bəsyárova bìˈ … púmmət dé ⁺méta ⁺bəsyàruvaˈ i xúto mattúyəva muttàcca.ˈ muttácca ɟlùltəlaˈ ʾátxa ⁺yarə̀xta.ˈ xút ⁺mèta,ˈ xút císo mattùyuva.ˈ ʾé ⁺méta ʾátxa labúlo màyova,ˈ ⁺marúmo maccùpovaˈ hál꞊t … hál꞊t ʾatyàvaˈ ʾé másta váyəva ⁺càrra.ˈ ʾo ⁺cárra bəšk̭áluva b-nòšu,ˈ ʾíta ⁺ʾávun pyášəva ⁺dàvvə.ˈ b-⁺dávvə ci-bašláxva bušàla.ˈ bušála ⁺šə̀myət hí?ˈ bušàla.ˈ bušála c-odíla bí sə̀lk̭a,ˈ bí ⁺tòlə,ˈ càraz.ˈ ʾáyya hə́nnət suràyəla,ˈ ⁺xáltət suràyəla.ˈ zóda hə́č-naša lélə ⁺bəddáyo ʾàyya.ˈ ʾá bušála hə́č-naša lèlə bəddáyo.ˈ ʾo ⁺càrra꞊daˈ ci-mapšərrìval,ˈ c-odíval mə̀šxa,ˈ ci-mattíval ɟu-bancyày.ˈ búš cúllə ⁺hazərrúyta c-odívala k̭a-sə̀tva,ˈ yánət sə́tva čàtun꞊va xéta.ˈ ʾáni ɟárət šák̭liva k̭a-ɟanèˈ k̭a-⁺xartè.ˈ ⁺méta ʾàtxəva.ˈ ⁺méta ʾadìyya꞊da ʾə́tlan ʾáxnan pyàšəla,ˈ ʾína xína ʾáxnan lḕx maplúxo.ˈ

ʾə́tloxun tanùyrə? tanúyra ʾə̀tlan.ˈ ʾána k̭údmə ɟáni pyàyənva,ˈ ʾána pyáyənva ⁺lavàšə.ˈ ʾávətva p̂ṱ-ávətva xə̀zya hí?ˈ k̭údmə pìli ʾána ɟáni,ˈ ʾána bàxta.ˈ báxta ⁺darrùnəvaˈ bí ⁺doràna.ˈ ⁺dorànaˈ ʾátxa k̭ésa ɟlùlələ.ˈ ⁺dorànələ šə́mmu lišā́n꞊t suràyə hí.ˈ ʾə́ttən tàxta.ˈ ⁺ʾal-dé táxta mattúyəna cùndaˈ bí ⁺dorána ⁺darrùnuna.ˈ ⁺xárta bədráyuna ⁺ʾál ⁺drananè.ˈ maptùyuna,ˈ maptùyuna.ˈ ʾə́tlan màzrak̭.ˈ ʾátxa màzrak̭ ʾə́tlan.ˈ ⁺ʾal-dé mázrak̭ šavùyut.ˈ mázrak̭ ʾə́tla xúto ⁺bə̀zza.ˈ ʾátxa bədvàk̭otˈ hí bí dé màzrak̭ˈ ʾo ⁺laváša mxáyut ɟu-tanùyra.ˈ ɟu-xá dak̭ík̭a bšàlələ,ˈ bəsmàk̭əl,ˈ ⁺házər vàyələ,ˈ nàzucˈ ⁺lavášət suràyə.ˈ ṱ-ī́x ⁺lavášə pyàyaˈ xá ʾə̀sri,ˈ tláy dànəˈ ⁺xárta pyáyəna ⁺bár lavàšəˈ ɟərdàyə,ˈ ɟərdèta.ˈ ɟərdéta ʾə́tla mazrák̭ət ɟànoˈ ʾḗ꞊t ɟərdèta ɟlùltəla,ˈ súrṱa mazràk̭꞊laˈ ʾán ɟərdáyə mxayéna ɟáv tanùyra.ˈ macùsuna.ˈ ʾáni xáč̭č̭a ⁺róba ɟárət bàšli,ˈ hál꞊t lá sàmk̭i.ˈ í ⁺xárta ⁺paluṱéva ʾàni mən-ɟávu.ˈ k̭á xà šábta,ˈ k̭àmta,ˈ k̭ámta ʾó ⁺ʾálma ʾatík̭a ci-payyíva k̭á xà yárxa.ˈ ci-daríva ci-mabrəzzìvalə.ˈ í ⁺xárta ci-mattìvaləˈ yánət sə́tva cúl-yum lá payyìva.ˈ ⁺xárta ci-⁺palṱíva ʾo-láxma brìzaˈ ci-nammənnìvalə,ˈ ɟú rùšnuc nimánaˈ carməxxìvaləˈ yánət racə̀xva.ˈ hí mən-⁺dávun c-⁺axlìva.ˈ ʾadíyya pyáyəna cút šábta xà-ɟa.ˈ ʾána k̭údmə pìliˈ k̭údmə píli k̭a-xá … k̭a-xá šábta mlàyanˈ k̭a-cúllə ʾójax ⁺bixàla.ˈ ⁺ʾávun basìmələ.ˈ ʾá láxma zvìnaˈ ⁺ṱáma lə̀tlə ʾət-hə̀č-məndi.ˈ b-k̭èsə ⁺bəšyárux tanúyra,ˈ b-k̭èsə,ˈ hí b-k̭èsə.ˈ tanúyra ⁺ṱúrsələ b-ʾúpra zàrda,ˈ k̭ùlyələ.ˈ múttələ hádax yánət cálət maxə̀ttə.ˈ k̭ámta tanúyran ɟu-⁺ʾàrrəva.ˈ baxtáyə ci-yatvíva ⁺ʾál … ⁺ʾál ⁺ʾàrra,ˈ ⁺ʾál jùllaˈ ʾíta ci-maxìvalə.ˈ ʾína ⁺xárta ʾó tanúyra mattúyuva ⁺ʾal-pàtaˈ xáč̭č̭a ⁺ʾùllulˈ yánət ⁺ʾal-ʾák̭lux cálət pàyyət.ˈ ⁺ʾal-ʾak̭lé clàyənaˈ háda pyàyəna.ˈ

ʾə́tva xaṱùra? hí k̭ámta ʾə́tvale ⁺xaṱùra.ˈ ci-mattìvaleˈ ci-xašlìvaleˈ jùlləˈ bí dó k̭èsaˈ yán p̂-idèˈ ʾan-júllə ɟúrət dmàxaˈ ṱ-ína malàpə.ˈ ʾáni x-là-⁺ʾamsi,ˈ p̂-idé lèva ⁺myasa masívale.ˈ ʾátxa vadèva,ˈ matruyèvaˈ mattuyéva b-⁺k̭ùṱma.ˈ ʾána bətxárən b-⁺k̭ùṱma ci-masìvale.ˈ ⁺k̭úṱma ci-⁺yàṱṱət?ˈ ʾó ⁺k̭úṱma ṱ-ílə ɟu-tanùyraˈ ṱ-ína k̭èsəˈ b-da-⁺k̭ùṱma,ˈ ⁺bənxàluva,ˈ b-dó ⁺k̭ùṱmaˈ k̭ámta ⁺sabun lə̀tva.ˈ b-⁺k̭úṱma júllə ci-masìvale.ˈ ⁺xárta ⁺və́rrə ⁺sàbunˈ mən-dó ⁺sabúnət … ʾàtxaˈ ⁺ɟúra ⁺sàbunˈ ʾət-⁺ʾurusnàyəˈ švə́k̭le ⁺sàbunˈ xá jùrra.ˈ ʾá-spar plə́ṱle sàynə.ˈ k̭ámta sáynət k̭èsəvaˈ b-táxta ⁺ṱarúsəva sàyna.ˈ sáyna ci-yàṱṱət mú꞊ila?ˈ ɟáv cú-məndi ṱ-ína msàya.ˈ ⁺xárta plə́ṱle ʾət-prə̀zla-uže.ˈ ⁺bár dán꞊t k̭ésa úžə plə́ṱle ʾət꞊prə̀zla.ˈ ci-lešíva lèša꞊daˈ ɟu-sáynət k̭èsa ʾə́tvalanˈ jə̀pnəva šə́mmu.ˈ šə́mmu jə̀pnələ,ˈ ʾícə ṱ-íva léša bəlyàša,ˈ láxma léša ṱ-íva bəlyàšuˈ jə́pnət k̭èsəva,ˈ šə́mmu jə̀pnəva.ˈ ʾadiyya mànələ,ˈ ʾadíyya mànələˈ ʾət-prə̀zla,ˈ ʾət-alumìn.ˈ hì,ˈ ʾáyən jə̀pnəva šə́mmu.ˈ ʾət-léša jə̀pna ci-⁺k̭arívala.ˈ

šak̭iyyày ʾə́tvaloxun? šak̭iyyày ʾə́tvalan?ˈ hì.ˈ xá šak̭íyya làxxəvaˈ ɟu-da-⁺ʾalúla sùra ʾátxa.ˈ dúla ʾadíyya꞊da šak̭íyya vèla.ˈ véla xa-šak̭ìyya.ˈ xá-xta xáč̭č̭a l-ò-yba.ˈ ʾán šak̭iyyáy háda vìdəva.ˈ mən-⁺ʾúllul c-atyáva šak̭íta ⁺ɟùrta,ˈ ⁺xárta ⁺pallúyəva ⁺ʾál ⁺ʾalulā̀n.ˈ ʾé-dān ṱ-íva míyya ⁺ròba,ˈ mlàyəva.ˈ ʾé ⁺dána xìtaˈ bí nobànə.ˈ ʾúdyu nobət dìyyilə.ˈ ⁺xárta nobət ⁺dàvvələ.ˈ mánilə nòbuˈ ⁺ʾàvun ci-maštíva.ˈ šak̭íyya ci-šok̭áxvala ɟu-bàxčəˈ ɟu-bavày.ˈ bavày c-odáxva,ˈ hí bàva.ˈ báva mù꞊ila?ˈ báva … hádax ⁺ṱarùsoxva.ˈ marzanáno ⁺marúməxva ʾùpra.ˈ ɟávo ⁺bəzràyətˈ ⁺bùslə.ˈ báva ʾavíla marzanànəˈ yánət míyya ṱ-īt-bəšvak̭é ɟàvoˈ m-l-á-yba xína là tápxi,ˈ ʾé báva šàtya.ˈ ʾátxa cúllə c-aváxva vidé bí bavàyˈ bàxča.ˈ ʾə́tva bavátət ⁺màšəˈ bavátət ⁺xyàrə,ˈ bavátət ⁺bùslə,ˈ tùymaˈ cút-xa bávu b-nòšuva.ˈ šə́mmət dáyən bàvəl.ˈ báva mújjurra tanə̀nnuxˈ ʾàtxa vádoxvaˈ ⁺yarəxnètaˈ láxxa vádəxva tìra.ˈ tìra.ˈ tíra lḕt ⁺bədda ʾátən.ˈ tíra ʾátxa ṱ-īt-ʾúpra ⁺marùmuˈ ʾátxa hì?ˈ hì,ˈ ʾátxa bí tìraˈ baváy prášəva m-⁺ùydalə.ˈ ʾátxa bí tiránə bavày,ˈ hì.ˈ hí ɟu-de-báva míyya bəšvak̭ḗtvaˈ ṱ-íva bərrə́šša ⁺ʾal-prák̭to ⁺mṱàya,ˈ bədvàk̭otvaˈ ʾá-spar bəšvak̭ḗtva l-ó-yba xìnaˈ ɟu-dó … báva xína bərrə̀xšəva.ˈ xá ⁺ṱlá ⁺ʾarp̂á ⁺saháttə c-aváxva maštúyo bàxča.ˈ cúllə ci-maštiyyàxvala.ˈ ʾá-spar míyya ci-šok̭àxvale,ˈ c-azə́lva ʾo-xìna,ˈ švàva,ˈ xə̀zman,ˈ švàvanˈ ci-maštìva,ˈ ʾan-ṱ-íva-uže mən-⁺bár díyyan k̭a-maštùyə.ˈ ʾadíyya šak̭iyyáy lə̀ttən.ˈ prə̀k̭le.ˈ tlə̀xle.ˈ hə́č-naša lélə vadè.ˈ lə̀tlan míyya.ˈ ʾadíyya maštúyəx mən-k̭ùnya.ˈ m-k̭únya maštúyəx b-bə̀rk̭a,ˈ mòṱor,ˈ ⁺nàsus,ˈ cúllə bí šlànɟ maštúyəx.ˈ mən-ʾícəna bitáya míyyət štèta? míyyət štéta k̭ùnya ʾə́tlan.ˈ k̭únya ʾə̀tlan.ˈ ham꞊da ʾə́t mənné ʾə́tle mìyya.ˈ xú xzìlux,ˈ ṱ-ína bitàyaˈ ɟú … ʾàni꞊da míyyət štètəna,ˈ ṱ-ína ⁺bəzyè,ˈ ⁺pláṱəna ɟanè.ˈ

dáx꞊iva bətvátə ɟu-K̭ánda k̭àmta? táza ʾət-ʾína tìyyəˈ ʾána xácma betanànə,ˈ bətxarḕn,ˈ betanánət ʾùprəva.ˈ bí ʾàləz ⁺ṱúrsəva.ˈ càrpəč.ˈ ɟané ⁺ṱarúsəva bí ʾùpra,ˈ bí tùyna.ˈ túyna ci-⁺yàṱṱət hí?ˈ tùyna,ˈ ɟə́lla barùyzaˈ ci-⁺xoṱívalə bí do-⁺ṱìnaˈ c-odíva carpìčə.ˈ ci-mabrəzzívale ⁺ʾal-yùma.ˈ b-dáni bnáyəva bèta.ˈ xá … b-xá dàna,ˈ ⁺ʾarp̂á ɟuydanànəˈ xá bèta.ˈ c-odívalə … ⁺k̭arávat ⁺ɟùrtaˈ k̭a-cúllunte m-⁺ùydalə damxíva,ˈ bàba,ˈ yə̀mma,ˈ yàlə,ˈ ʾál déxa ⁺k̭aràvatˈ damxíva cúllə ⁺tàma.ˈ

saccunyày c-odíva.ˈ saccùnta,ˈ sàccun.ˈ ʾáyən꞊da bnìtəlaˈ pə́tvo xá mètraˈ k̭a-dmàxa,ˈ k̭a-dmàxa,ˈ xína ʾṓ꞊t k̭àmta,ˈ ʾé꞊ɟət k̭àmta.ˈ ʾànaˈ … ɟu-dá ⁺dórət díyyan ʾátxa lə̀tva ʾína.ˈ bàlma ci-daríva xuté,ˈ bàlma.ˈ bàlma.ˈ ʾíman ⁺xə́ṱṱə ṱ-ílə pyàšaˈ ʾo-bàlma,ˈ ʾo-ɟə́lla hí barùyza,ˈ ⁺ʾal-⁺dàvən ci-damxíva.ˈ ʾàyya-uže,ˈ ʾáyya ⁺ròba k̭ámtəva hí.ˈ saccunyày,ˈ sáccun mù꞊ila?ˈ də́pnət ɟúyda bnàyənaˈ bí do-ʾùpraˈ yá bí dan-carpíčət ʾúpra bnàyəvaˈ xà métra,ˈ xáč̭č̭a ⁺basùraˈ ɟùydaˈ də́pnət ɟùydaˈ mə́drə ɟúyda bnáyəva ʾáxči cùpaˈ k̭a-dmàxtət ⁺ʾállu,ˈ k̭a-⁺xàltət ⁺ʾállu.ˈ ʾé-ɟət tìle,ˈ lə́tva tàxta,ˈ lə̀tvale hə́č mə́ndi.ˈ ṱ-í ʾət-táza ⁺ʾalméni tíle láxxa lə̀tvale hə́č mə́ndi.ˈ ɟu-ɟuybanànə ci-xayyíva,ˈ ɟùybaˈ pálɟət béta ɟu-ʾùprəva.ˈ pálɟu múcsəva bí ʾùpra ʾátxa,ˈ ʾàtxa,ˈ ɟùyba. ɟùyba,ˈ znàčet,ˈ pálɟu ɟu-ʾùpra,ˈ pálɟu ⁺ʾál pā̀t-duca,ˈ ʾə̀ltəx,ˈ yánət šaxə̀nta ʾoyáva.ˈ ⁺k̭aryày,ˈ ci-mattíva k̭èsə.ˈ ci-daríva zìla,ˈ zìla,ˈ dárzə b-zìlaˈ ci-⁺yasríva dàrzə.ˈ ci-daríva ⁺ʾállu … ʾùpraˈ yánət šaxìna ʾavíva.ˈ ʾátxa ɟlùla váduvaˈ ⁺xárta mən-dan-dárzət zíla ci-xarzíva ⁺ʾàlluˈ yánət míyya ɟávu là ⁺salíva,ˈ ⁺salíva ⁺ʾal-màrza.ˈ c-oyáva ʾé-⁺dān ṱ-íva ⁺múṱra xelánta bitàya,ˈ bədlàpəva,ˈ bətràyəva.ˈ ɟàrə? hí ɟaravày꞊da ʾə́tva.ˈ ɟára ʾú-uže ɟárə dùz꞊ilə.ˈ ⁺ʾávun dùz꞊ilə.ˈ ʾə́tva dalùpə? dalúpə vàyəva híˈ yánət t-lá-ʾaviva mən-⁺ʾúllul … ɟandərríva ʾállu mə̀ndi.ˈ ci-ɟarpívalə tàlɟa? tálɟa ci-ɟarpìval hí.ˈ tálɟa c-àvə,ˈ ɟarpìvaləˈ ⁺múṱra x-là-⁺ʾamsi ɟarpívala.ˈ ⁺múṱra ṱ-íva bitáya xelànta,ˈ lè-⁺ʾamsi ɟarpívala.ˈ ʾé-⁺dana c-atíva dalupyày.ˈ tálɟa c-ask̭ìva,ˈ canšìvalə,ˈ tamməzzìvalə.ˈ bəcnášəva m-⁺ál ɟàrəˈ yánət lá ⁺salyàva.ˈ ʾànaˈ tré betanánə pyášəva ɟu-surúytət dìyyiˈ ʾána xəzyḕn ʾáni.ˈ b-mú bəcnàšəva? b-mù bəcnašəvá?ˈ bí canùšta.ˈ canúšta ci-⁺ṱarsíva bí … ʾə́ttən ɟə́lla ⁺támma ʾícəna bat-⁺k̭uravày.ˈ ɟə́llət canùšta ʾə́ttən.ˈ hám꞊da canúšta ʾə́ttən bək̭yáməla ɟu-baxčanā̀n.ˈ canušyáy ci-⁺ṱarsívale ⁺hàzərˈ yánət ʾavívale k̭a-sə̀tva.ˈ ʾáy ʾadíyya ⁺bár xá yàrxa,ˈ uže-⁺dā́n canúšta ṱ-atyàni,ˈ ɟári canùšta.ˈ ʾadíyya꞊da ⁺bəsyárəx canùštaˈ k̭á dárta cnàštaˈ canúštət ɟánan bèta.ˈ ʾə́tva panjàrə? ʾə́tva panjàra.ˈ ʾə́tva càva,ˈ ʾán betanánət ʾàləz.ˈ panjára m-ìca?ˈ ʾé-ɟa šúyša lə̀tva.ˈ ʾə́n xá náša ʾavíval xá šùyša.ˈ càvə ʾə́tva,ˈ càva ci-⁺k̭arívalə.ˈ

ʾə́tva hádax ⁺dána ʾət-k̭ənyànəˈ tavə̀rtaˈ hám꞊da ⁺ʾálma m-⁺ùydalə ci-xayyíva.ˈ tavə́rta꞊da sə́tva ci-⁺morívala ɟav-bèta.ˈ ʾé-⁺dānət ⁺bayyáva ⁺jyàrtaˈ ʾó ⁺ɟórət bètaˈ ci-⁺p̂armìva bíyyoˈ ci-šak̭ə́lva màna,ˈ ci-davə́k̭va xùtoˈ yánət rìxa là-ʾaviva.ˈ ɟu-⁺jyárto davə́k̭valə k̭àmo,ˈ ⁺jeràva.ˈ ⁺palə́ṱva tapə̀xval.ˈ cullə ⁺heyvanə ɟu-bètəva? cúllə làˈ tavə̀rta,ˈ bíyya b-⁺zàyo,ˈ tavə̀rta.ˈ ctètaˈ lèva ⁺lázəm ɟu-bèta.ˈ xzùyra léva ⁺lázəm ɟu-béta.ˈ láxxa hádax k̭árta lèla ɟu-Gúrjəs-⁺tanˈ yánət xablìva.ˈ xzúyra lè xábəl.ˈ xzúyra ɟu-⁺tàrra ci-pāš.ˈ šə́mmət bétət xzúyrə mùdilə? k̭ə́nnət xzùyraˈ k̭ə́nnət xzúyra꞊da c-odívala dáx꞊t … ɟu-⁺ʾàrraˈ ɟu-⁺ʾárra ɟùyba c-odíva.ˈ ɟu-ɟúyba xzúyra ⁺táma c-⁺avə́rva sə̀tva.ˈ ⁺ʾárra šaxə̀ntəla.ˈ ci-⁺k̭erívala ʾátxa ⁺ʾàrra.ˈ ci-macsìvalə,ˈ daríva ⁺ʾállu ʾùpraˈ yánət ʾo-xzúyra꞊da šaxìna ʾavíva.ˈ ⁺xṱìtuva xína.ˈ ctayáy ʾə́tvale nìnə.ˈ nínət ctayày ci-⁺k̭arívalaˈ ʾícə ṱ-ína ctayàyˈ ʾicə ṱ-ína ⁺bəryàpa,ˈ nìnə ⁺bək̭ráyona.ˈ hí bétət ctayáy nìnələ šə́mmo,ˈ nìnə.ˈ ʾàtxaˈ k̭èsə ci-mattívaˈ yask̭íva ⁺ʾal-dán k̭èsə ⁺yarpíva.ˈ ⁺ʾúllul macùsovaˈ yánət ⁺múṱra b-rišé là-ʾatyava.ˈ k̭a-bíyyə ci-mattíva ʾərbàla,ˈ ʾərbála ʾatə́k̭ta ci-mattíva ɟávo tùynaˈ yánət ʾé ctéta ɟu-dé ʾərbàla mattáva bíyyə.ˈ ci-maxpívala꞊da ʾé-⁺danət ʾan-bíyyo ṱ-íva ⁺bəjmá zòdaˈ ṱ-íla k̭apk̭ùpə ctéta,ˈ k̭apk̭ùpəˈ bíyyə ṱ-íla mattúyə ⁺ròbaˈ k̭apk̭ùpəla.ˈ ⁺xárta ⁺palúṱəla ⁺zàyə.ˈ ɟu-dé ʾərbàlaˈ ⁺ʾal-dó ɟə̀lla.ˈ ci-maxpívala ⁺ʾal-dan-bìyyəˈ ʾəsrí xá bìta ci-mattíva xùto.ˈ ʾàtxəva.ˈ lḗn-⁺bədda k̭a-mù.ˈ ʾadíyya꞊da ʾátxa vàdəna,ˈ ʾəsrí xà bíta,ˈ hì,ˈ í ci-maxpìvala,ˈ ci-⁺palṱáva ⁺záyə sùrə.ˈ hì,ˈ ctèta.ˈ ⁺xárta ʾan-⁺záyə ɟarvùsənaˈ yánət xa-⁺xàrta ʾavíle.ˈ ʾan-sàvəˈ pràməva.ˈ ʾan-jìləˈ ɟarvúsəva váyəva ctayày.ˈ ʾáy k̭ə́nnət ctayáy šə́mmu nìnəva.ˈ

šə́mmət bétət dabášə mùdilə? ci-⁺k̭araxlə k̭ə́nnət dabàšə.ˈ ʾáni ʾə́tle k̭ə́nnət ɟanè,ˈ k̭utíyyət ɟanè.ˈ ʾə́tla ⁺bə̀zza ʾáyən.ˈ ʾáni ⁺pláṱəna ⁺várəna ⁺xálta vádəna k̭a-ɟanè.ˈ ɟanèˈ ⁺ṱarúsəna ⁺xàltaˈ mən-dà ʾilána,ˈ mən-p̂ə̀c̭xa,ˈ ʾá xá xixə̀ccələ.ˈ ʾá ʾilána šə́mmu xixə̀ccələ,ˈ xixə̀cca.ˈ xixə̀cca.ˈ mən-dá bəšk̭áləna mən-cúllə ⁺róba dùyša.ˈ ⁺xárta ʾadìyya,ˈ ʾadíyya ⁺dánət ⁺paláṱṱət dùyšəla.ˈ yárət ʾána xàzzənˈ ɟu-dánnə yumánə ɟári ⁺pàlṱənˈ dùyša.ˈ xáč̭č̭a ⁺palúṱət k̭a-ɟànuxˈ xáč̭č̭a bəšvák̭ət k̭a-dàni,ˈ yánət ʾáni꞊da sə́tva xú léna ⁺myasa ⁺xálta màčxi.ˈ mən dé ⁺xáltət dàniˈ ʾàxnan bəšk̭áləxˈ pálɟə k̭a-dìyyan,ˈ pálɟə k̭a-dabàšə.ˈ

ʾə́ttən xelàpa.ˈ ʾə́ttən xixə̀cca.ˈ ʾə́ttən ⁺camùtra.ˈ xabùyša,ˈ tùyta.ˈ túyta xu-lišān-dìyyan꞊la.ˈ ɟòza,ˈ pəndə̀k̭k̭a.ˈ ⁺tambùyrə,ˈ tambúrta ʾə́ttən.ˈ ʾə́ttən ⁺ɟilàsta ʾə́ttən.ˈ balbalùk̭ta ʾə́ttən.ˈ k̭a-díyyux tánən xína mù ʾə́ttən?ˈ ⁺k̭aralū̀ɟ.ˈ

vàrdə? vàrda,ˈ lišánət ɟánan šə̀mmuˈ xá ʾáxči ci-⁺yaṱṱə́nnə vàrdaˈ smùk̭a,ˈ várda ⁺xvàra,ˈ várda zàrda.ˈ ʾátxa b-šəmmanè,ˈ úžə šəmmánət díyyan lèna ⁺ʾallé.ˈ c-óya ʾət-dìyyanˈ ʾáxnan lḕx ⁺bəddáya.ˈ c-óya ʾət-dìyyan꞊na.ˈ ʾə́ttən zaprā̀n.ˈ

k̭a-sə̀tvaˈ c-odáxva k̭a-k̭ənyànəˈ c-odáxən ʾadìyya꞊da,ˈ ɟə̀lla ⁺bəxzádəx,ˈ mabrùzux,ˈ vádux ɟdìša.ˈ ⁺bəxzádəx pučèčə.ˈ pučèčə lḗn ⁺bəddá lišān-dìyyan꞊lə.ˈ màccə.ˈ máccə ṱ-ína bràza,ˈ ⁺ṱára ⁺palùṱut.ˈ ʾan-máccət ⁺bəxzadḕtˈ vadét dàrza.ˈ ʾan-dárzə꞊da bəxrazḗx ⁺ʾal-⁺ʾuydàlə,ˈ yánət ⁺múṱra ɟavé là ⁺sálya,ˈ là xárvi.ˈ i sə̀tvaˈ xá dárza pučèčə ⁺maxulḗxˈ xá xp̂ák̭a꞊da ɟə̀lla bədráyəxˈ ɟu-pàɟa.ˈ móriša ci-k̭émax xuté ci-tamməzzìlə.ˈ ci-⁺xalvìle.ˈ daríle ⁺xàlta.ˈ ci-⁺morìle,ˈ mìyya ci-maštíle ʾé-⁺dān ṱ-íla k̭àrta.ˈ ʾé-⁺dān ṱ-íla xáčča šaxinùyta,ˈ ⁺pláṱəna ɟu-⁺tàra,ˈ bəštáyəna mìyya,ˈ ⁺maxulèna,ˈ mayèna,ˈ ⁺mavuréna mə́drə ɟu-pàɟa.ˈ dràyəna,ˈ ʾə́tle ʾuravàyˈ šəmmé ʾuravày꞊lə.ˈ b-táxta ⁺ṱúrsəna ʾuravày.ˈ ʾu-ɟə́lla ɟu-ʾuraváy bədràyunaˈ yánət lá bazbək̭k̭ílə xút ʾak̭lè,ˈ k̭a-sə́tva ɟə̀lla,ˈ hám꞊da pučèčə.ˈ pučèčəˈ ʾánnə máccə prìmə ṱ-ína,ˈ máccə brìzə ṱ-ína,ˈ ʾo-⁺ʾək̭ré ṱ-ílə bràza,ˈ ⁺ʾávun šə́mmu pučèčələ.ˈ ⁺ʾávun vádux dàrzə.ˈ hám ɟə́lla ⁺bəxzádux bí ɟalándi ɟu-⁺čòl.ˈ máyux bèta,ˈ mattúyux ɟdìša.ˈ í sə́tva mən-⁺dávun bəšk̭àlənaˈ ⁺maxulèna.ˈ

múdi c-odítuva k̭a-sə́tva? k̭àlya ci-k̭alíva.ˈ ⁺k̭urṱópə ci-⁺ṱašìva,ˈ ɟané ⁺k̭urṱòpə.ˈ calàmə.ˈ turšìyyə ci-dok̭íva.ˈ turšíyyə xu-⁺bəddàyət hí?ˈ turšíyyət ⁺bùybar,ˈ ʾət-calàmə,ˈ ʾət-⁺badəmjànə.ˈ ⁺màšə ci-avívale.ˈ xá tré mešóɟə ⁺màšə.ˈ k̭átux tànənˈ xzúyra ci-parmìva.ˈ ci-mattívalə ɟu-míyya mə̀lxaˈ yánət lá xàrəvva.ˈ ⁺palṱìva,ˈ ci-⁺xallìva,ˈ c-odíva ⁺dòlma.ˈ ṱàrpə ci-dok̭íva,ˈ ṱárpət ɟə̀pta.ˈ ⁺ṱárpət ⁺ɟə̀pta,ˈ ʾáyya dòlmaˈ ṱárpət sùrayəla.ˈ dólmət ⁺ṱárpə b-⁺k̭àttəġ,ˈ b-tùyma.ˈ ʾadìyya꞊da cúllə ʾánnə vadḕx ʾáxnan.ˈ ʾadíyya꞊da c-odàxle.ˈ harìsa ci-bašlíva,ˈ harìsa.ˈ šəmyəttə̀ harísa?ˈ harísa ⁺xə̀ṱṱə ci-bašlívale.ˈ ɟavé ci-ódi ⁺bùsra.ˈ búš ⁺k̭àza c-odíva ɟáv harísa k̭ámta.ˈ ʾadíyya b-ctèta váduna.ˈ xína k̭ámxət màccə c-avívale,ˈ ⁺bùlč̭u c-odíva.ˈ níxa níxa sə́tva ci-⁺morìvalə xína.ˈ

ʾə́tva tàlɟa? ʾé-ɟət surúyti ⁺ròba c-atíva tálɟa.ˈ ʾána bətxárən ṱ-ī́nva sùra,ˈ ɟu-dàrtaˈ nanúnti ptáxəva bí lap̂àṱk̭aˈ ʾátxa ʾùrxa.ˈ xá métra … mən-métra zòda c-ávivaˈ ⁺ràma.ˈ ʾé-⁺dana ⁺hàsəl꞊da bitáyəva jī̀s.ˈ ʾadíyya baruzùytəla.ˈ ⁺hásəl lèla bitá.ˈ ʾé-ɟa ʾo-tálɟa ṱ-i-c-atìvaˈ ⁺ʾávun mlàyəva k̭á …ˈ do-mə̀ndi,ˈ k̭a-ʾilànə,ˈ k̭á … yéməš mlàyəva.ˈ ʾadíyya tálɟa láxxa ⁺basùra bitáyələ.ˈ búš k̭àrta váyəla.ˈ maɟdálta ⁺ròbəla.ˈ ʾurxáy ⁺róba pī̀s꞊va.ˈ ʾúrxay bí ⁺ʾarabànə,ˈ bí cállə bí xèla c-áziva m-áxxa mən-ɟu-da-⁺ʾalúla.ˈ ⁺tammòˈ ʾána l-ó-yba bəxxàyən,ˈ ⁺támma ʾə́tva šak̭ìyya.ˈ ⁺ʾarabána ci-⁺ṱamràva,ˈ ⁺ʾarabána ⁺bəddàyət hí?ˈ tré ⁺topày ʾə́tla.ˈ b-k̭ésa ɟávo ɟamə̀šta c-⁺asríva.ˈ ⁺ʾarabána ci-⁺ṱamràvaˈ bətxárən ʾána surùytiˈ ⁺ʾarabánət ci-⁺ṱamrìvaˈ c-áviva ⁺bəsyára tré nìrə ɟavé,ˈ tré nìrə.ˈ tré nírə znàčetˈ xá xu-⁺sə́rtəla ɟàvo,ˈ lélə xélo ⁺mṱàˈ ʾé xíta꞊da ci-mazyəddívala ⁺ʾàlloˈ yánət ⁺palṱívala ʾáyya ⁺ʾarabàna.ˈ níra bí k̭èsa ⁺ṱúrsəva,ˈ bətyáva ⁺ʾal-k̭dàlət ɟemə́šta.ˈ mən-xúta ⁺bəsyárova bí ⁺xòləˈ yánət ɟaršàvala ʾáyya ⁺ʾarabàna.ˈ ⁺ʾarabána ʾə́tvala tré pàllə ⁺bək̭ráyəva,ˈ pàllə.ˈ bí tré pállə ʾátxa ⁺ṱurə̀stəva.ˈ pàlla.ˈ pàlla.ˈ tré k̭èsəna pálla.ˈ ⁺ʾal-dan-pállə mə́xyəva tàxtə,ˈ ʾáyən k̭á … mə́ndi mattétət ⁺ʾàllo.ˈ k̭amáy ʾicə-ṱ-íva ʾan-pàlləˈ ⁺táma ʾə́tva xá-xta níra ⁺ṱùrsəvaˈ yánət ʾo-níra ⁺ʾal-k̭dálət ɟemə́šta mattìvaləˈ i b-xólə b-⁺yasrìval,ˈ yánət b-k̭dálo xéla mxàyəlaˈ b-⁺rušanáno bəɟràšəla.ˈ ʾína ṱ-íva lèva xélo ⁺mṱáyaˈ bí dán pállə ʾət-dáy ⁺ʾarabána xíta c-⁺asríva xá ɟemə́šta xìtaˈ k̭amáy bí ⁺xòləˈ yánət ʾáyən꞊da ⁺ʾal-⁺hári ʾodàvaˈ ɟaršàvala.ˈ ʾána ʾáyya bətxàron.ˈ hí bətxàronˈ k̭ám xá xamšì šə́nnə,ˈ k̭ám xamšì šə́nnə.ˈ k̭ám ⁺tarrèniva ʾé dúctaˈ ṱ-íva … ʾé pī́s dúcta k̭ám ⁺tarrèniva.ˈ ⁺táma ⁺ròba ⁺ṱína c-áviva.ˈ ⁺xárta níxa nìxaˈ muyyìle,ˈ dríle mən-dán cìpəˈ ⁺šùlə,ˈ vidàle.ˈ

dáx mašxənníva bətvàtə? táza hál꞊t ⁺ʾoríva pèčəˈ ʾə́tva núyra ⁺ʾarálləġ꞊ət bèta.ˈ beté xá ⁺ʾòtaġ꞊vaˈ xá bètəva.ˈ lá màrənˈ ⁺ʾal-xá k̭unjíyya c-áviva k̭ənyànə,ˈ ⁺hayvā̀n.ˈ ⁺ʾal-de-bár xína ʾə́tvale xa-⁺k̭arávat k̭á … ɟanè,ˈ k̭a-dmàxa.ˈ ⁺ʾarálləġ ʾə́tvale núyrət ⁺ʾaràlləġ ci-⁺k̭arívalə.ˈ ⁺ʾúllul ʾə́tva xá ⁺bə̀zzaˈ švík̭əva càva.ˈ cáva švík̭əva ɟú lámpa ⁺ʾùllul.ˈ yánət ʾo-tə́nna ⁺palə̀ṱva.ˈ i núyra ci-⁺šeríva ⁺ʾarálləġ꞊ət bèta.ˈ núyra ⁺bəšyàrəva,ˈ b-dó nuyra bəšxànəva.ˈ ⁺k̭usárta čumbə́ltəva ⁺ʾál nùyra.ˈ vídəva hə́nna bí màptulˈ ⁺sə́rtəva k̭azànča.ˈ ⁺k̭usarté bašúlova ⁺tàmaˈ ⁺ʾal-dó nùyra.ˈ ⁺xárta ʾət-txúrtət díyyi ʾànaˈ ʾáyya lə̀tva ʾúže.ˈ ʾə́tva ʾúže … pḕč,ˈ pḗč bí prə́zla ⁺ṱurə̀sta.ˈ ʾadíyya꞊da ʾáxnan pèčə múttəx.ˈ hí péčə mattùyəxˈ b-k̭èsə bəšxánəx.ˈ ʾadíyya xácma dúle ⁺ɟā̀z ʾə́ttənˈ bí ⁺ɟā̀z bəšxánəx.ˈ ʾica baxtátə ci-bašlìva? ⁺ʾal-do nùyra.ˈ ⁺k̭azánčət mī̀s ʾə́tvale.ˈ baxúšta ʾət-k̭èsəvaˈ ʾína xà ⁺k̭azánča ʾə́tvale.ˈ cúllə mə́ndi b-dàyən bašlíva.ˈ ʾṓ꞊t ʾə́tvalə trè,ˈ ⁺ṱlà,ˈ ʾàniˈ xáč̭č̭a jə̀ns bəxxáyəva.ˈ hì,ˈ ⁺k̭azánčət mī̀s ⁺bək̭ráyova.ˈ mìsˈ hám꞊da hə́nnə m-⁺ùydalə ⁺xvíṱəvaˈ ʾalumī̀n.ˈ mən-dan-⁺k̭azánčə ʾə̀ttən pyáša.ˈ ʾə́t xácma mənné ṱ-avìle pyášaˈ ɟu-p̂atvā̀l,ˈ ʾatìk̭ə ṱ-avíle,ˈ ʾína ʾáni ʾádi xína lèna maplúxə.ˈ hì,ˈ ɟu-dé ⁺k̭azánčət mī̀sˈ čumbə́lta ⁺ʾal-nùyra ci-bašlíva.ˈ ɟu-darta? k̭éṱa ɟu-dàrtaˈ sə́tva ⁺ʾál do-núyrət ⁺ʾaràlləġ.ˈ sə́tva ɟu-bètaˈ ʾo-núyra bəlláyələ yánət šaxinùyta yávvəl.ˈ hám ⁺k̭usarté꞊da čumbə́ltəva ⁺ʾál … màptulˈ bašúlə ɟu-dàyən.ˈ i cúllə bədráyəva ɟu-xa-mànaˈ ⁺bixáləva p̂-idè.ˈ ʾáyya léla ⁺róba də̀rranɟˈ k̭ám xá šávvi ⁺tmáni šə́nnə ʾàtxəva.ˈ

Translation:

As for a game, in our childhood we used to play what was called _⁺baduša_. We used to call it _⁺baduša. ⁺Baduša_ is a sharpened stick. We used to make mud into mortar so that the _⁺baduša_ would stick in. One of those who were hitting it would stick it in, the other had to make it fall. If you made it fall, you won it. It was yours. Then we would hit another one. Three or four of us would play _⁺badušə_. We used to win sticks for keeps and take them home in the winter. We were young children. We also used to play ‘belt.’ We used to place the belt like this in order to make a circle, a circle. Three people are inside and three are outside. You must steal the belt from the circle. If you steal a belt, then you beat with this and drive (the others) away and you must steal another one. Now you steal also that. Then you steal the third one. Now, those who are inside must take the belt from your hand in order to win, either one must win or the other. If they took it, then they go into the circle and the others go outside.

At night, I remember, we used to go to the house of my grandfather and grandmother. They used to have maize. They had a lot of maize. The floor of their house was earth. They had laid there a pile and we used to sit hulling the maize. All of the grandchildren of my grandfather, his daughters-in-law, we used to sit hulling the maize. The old men used to tell us stories while we were hulling the maize. We were helping them. In winter they baked flat breads on (the walls of) the oven. Until a time such as this they baked all day long. They laid them out in the wood, in tens, and we took them to the town. My mother took them to the town and sold them, or she used to buy some food, and also used to buy flour and bring it back so that they could bake again the next day. By this we lived.

Was there a watermill? We had a watermill here. The place of the watermill remains, but it itself is not there. We would take wheat and maize and grind them. Yes, we remember that watermill well. It was a mill (operated by) water. A stream came from above. It had a trough (for carrying water) (_šiva_). It had (what we call) a trough (_šiva_) in our language. The trough was made of planks. Underneath there was a wheel. The water would pour on the wheel and it would turn. On an axle on top it had a stone, two stones, one was stationary, the one on top turned. Water made it work. They used to put wheat in it in a …. What was the name of that thing? It was made of planks, where we used to pour the wheat they placed a stick. That stick, that stone when the stick that it was operating, the thing of the wheat, was moving, or (the wheat) had to pour down as one. They used to stop it according to its measure as much as was necessary. If a lot came, the flour was coarse. When the miller stopped it, he would do this with a rope. He turned it and stopped it in its place. Then he checked the flour with his hand (to see) whether the flour was flowing well. It must not come out hot nor must it come out coarse. (As) he ground it, he poured out a sack above in the plank, and a sack of flour flowed down from the stone. Then they would bring it home and sieve it. They would make the coarse flour into mash. Do you know what mash is? They used to make both the flour of wheat and also the flour of maize into mash. The coarse flour they made into mash. They cooked it in boiling water and they put oil in it, oil or milk. The fine flour they would bake into bread. They kneaded it. We used to have (natural) leaven. Now they put yeast or a chemical in it. Formerly we used to have leaven. We used to ask for the leaven from house to house: ‘Give your leaven (for me to take) with me for me to bake. I shall bring it back tomorrow.’ Leaven, sour dough, so that it would leaven the other one. I do not know whether you have learnt (about) leaven? They would knead and cover the dough in order for it to leaven. When it leavened, they would then lay out balls of dough and bake flat breads, loaves, in the oven. In winter this was the work of … mainly women would bake, when men did not have work, right? At that time the women would bake flour and we would take it and sell it. We would buy (things), and bring back food for the children.

How was the harvest? Look, we did not witness the harvest. We did not witness it, since we are too young. I have seen thus, I have heard that they used to harvest, they used make (the produce) into ears of wheat and bring them home. They had a horse or a head of cattle. They used to tie a buffalo to that thing. It would turn it in order to extract the wheat. We have not witnessed that. It was not (in) our time. That was a different age. It was before our (time), (in the time of) our fathers, my grandfather and also my father, it was in _their_ time. Threshing-floor—we did not witness the threshing floor. (When) we arrived, there was a collective farm. When they introduced the collective, they all used to gather there in the collective, they gave work to the people, then they gave them, for their work, they gave them some bags (of produce) in order to pass the winter.

Those who had a vineyard of grapes, vineyard of grapes, in various places within it they used to cultivate beans in its strips. Land at that time was scarce and they did not give much land to people. Our lands were few. They farmed so they would have grapes and would have beans, as much as the land would suffice. We used to cultivate mostly beans in the old days. They would cultivate cabbage, cucumbers, beetroot, what was necessary for winter, for themselves, potatoes.

From the vine we would make wine. (On) a vine there are grapes. How did we make wine? We had a grape-press that was made (for the purpose). My grandfather had a grape-press that was made (for the purpose). Underneath he had placed planks, distant from one another, holes which had strips. We placed the grapes there and we went up barefoot. They used to take us children up, three or four people, and we would squash (the grapes). Underneath it had a small hole, from where the wine came into a pan. They would take it and put it in a barrel, into an earthen jar. Then, when it was becoming sour, and the alcohol of the wine is becoming strong, then they sealed its mouth. They put on a stone and sealed it with gypsum, with yellow earth, and stored it away for winter. After that they opened the jar, cleaned it and took out the wine for drinking.

They used to keep a pig for winter. They had cattle. They made fried meat. This fried meat is ours, of the Assyrians, the meat of a large head of cattle, a cow. They fried it. They put oil on it. They put also this aside for winter. It keeps for a long time without going off, because it is fried in oil. It had (with it) potatoes, it had … we passed the winter slowly.

Arak, we used to make arak from what remained of the wine, the grape must. From this we used to extract arak. We had a pan for arak. We still have it. Have you not shown him? There is a pan for arak. There is a pan for the production of arak. They put the arak in a barrel. It stays until its boiling stops. When it is boiling, it does not produce arak. Its boiling must stop. After its boiling stops, they put it in the pan. This has a lid and they cover it. The lid has a hole. Yes, through this hole they put it into a pipe, into a trough. There is water. The steam that is boiling, the steam goes into the pipe. The steam cools in the water. Yes, it turns into drops. Yes, from the pipe drops flow down into a bottle. We store them (the bottles of arak) for their later use.

The churn was churned by a woman. First they boil the milk. They put in a spoonful of sour starter, yoghurt, in it. It remains until the next morning, it remained from the evening until morning, it becomes yoghurt. They put the yoghurt in the churn. They tie its mouth with … they tie the mouth of the churn and under it they put a bolster. A bolster is round, long like this. They placed it under the churn, under its stomach. They push the churn back and forth, up and down, until it comes, the yoghurt becomes butter. They take off the butter by itself, then what remained was buttermilk. With buttermilk we used to cook stew. You have heard about stew? Stew. They make stew with beetroot, with coriander, celery. This is an Assyrian thing, it is an Assyrian dish. Nobody else knows it. Nobody else knows this stew. They used to melt the butter, make it clarified butter and put it in jars. They made all possible preparation for the winter, because life in winter was difficult. They had to buy for themselves and for their future needs. The churn was like that. Even now we still have a churn, but we do not use it anymore.

Do you have ovens? We have an oven. I myself was baking yesterday, I was baking flat breads. If you had been (here), you would have seen, yes. Yesterday I myself baked, I and my wife. My wife was rolling with the rolling pin. A rolling pin is a round stick like this. Its name is rolling pin in the Assyrian language, yes. There is a board. On the board they put a dough ball. They roll it with a rolling pin. Then they put it on their arms. They spread it out, spread it out. We have a baking cushion. We have a baking cushion like this. You lay it on the baking cushion. The baking cushion has a hole under it. You hold it like this. Yes, with the baking cushion you put the flat bread in the oven. It bakes in one minute. It becomes brown and is ready, fine Assyrian flat bread. When we bake flat bread, (we bake) twenty or thirty of them, then, after flat breads, they bake loaves, a loaf. A loaf has its own baking cushion. The one of a loaf is round. It is a small baking cushion. They put the loaves in the oven. They cover them. They must bake quite a lot, until they are brown. Then they take them out of it. For one week—formerly the old folk used to bake for one month. They laid them out to dry them. Then they put them aside, so that they would not have to bake every day in the winter. Later they would take out the dried bread and moisten it. They rolled it in a damp towel so it would become soft. Yes, they used to eat some of that. Now they bake once every week. Yesterday I baked for one … for it to be sufficient for us for one week, for all the family to eat. It is tasty. The bought bread does not have, has no taste of anything. We light the oven with wood, with wood, yes with wood. An oven is made of yellow clay, which is fired. It is placed like this so that you can stand and put (bread) in it. Formerly our oven was in the ground. The women used to sit on the ground, on a cloth, then they put it (the bread) in it. But later they put the oven on the surface, slightly above, so that you could stand on your feet and bake. They stand on their feet and bake in this way.

Was there a washing-beater? Yes, formerly they had a washing-beater. They would put the clothes and pummel them with that stick, or with their hands, the big clothing of bedding, that is sheets. How can they? They could not wash them by hand. They did them like this. They wet them and put them with ash. I remember that they washed them with ash. You know ‘ash’? The ash that is in the oven—when there is wood, with that ash, they sieved it, with that ash. In the old days there was no soap. They used to wash clothes with ash. Later soap came, soap like this, big soap, of the Russians, they left soap, a type. Then tubs came out. Formerly they were wooden tubs, tubs were made of planks. Do you know what a tub is? (They put) in it whatever they wash. Then iron ones came out. After the wooden ones, iron ones came out. They also kneaded dough in a wooden tub that we had, called a kneading trough. It was called a kneading trough, where they knead dough, bread dough that they kneaded. It was a trough of wood, it was called a kneading trough. Now it is a basin, it is a basin of iron, of aluminium. Yes, its name was kneading trough. (A basin) of dough was called a kneading trough.

Did you have irrigation channels? Did we have irrigation channels? Yes. There was a channel here in this small street like this. There is the channel. There is a channel. Another is a little over there. Those channels were made like that. A big channel used to come from high up, then it split into the streets. When the water was abundant, it was sufficient. Another time—by turns. Today it is my turn. Then it is his turn. Whoever’s turn it is, he would irrigate. They used to release the channel into kitchen gardens and orchard basins. We made orchard basins (_bavay_), yes an basin (_bava_). What is an orchard basin (_bava_)? We made a basin like this. Around it we would raise the earth. In it you would cultivate onions. A basin has sides, so that the water that you release into it does not spill from the other side, but the basin drinks it. In this way we used to make everything with basins, (in) a kitchen garden. There were basins of beans, basins of cucumbers, basins of onions, garlic, every basin by itself. The name of this is ‘basin’ (_bava_). Basin, what should I tell you? We used to make it like this, longish, and here we would make a basin-bank, basin-bank. You do not know what a basin-bank is. A basin-bank, like this when you raise the soil, like this, yes? Yes, in this way the basins are separated from one another. In this way the basins (are made) by banks, yes. Yes, in that basin you would release the water, which would go and reach its end, and it would hold it. Then you would release it on the other side and it would flow into the other basin. We would irrigate the kitchen garden for three or four hours. We irrigated it all. Then we released the water, and another person would come, a neighbour, a relative, our neighbour, and would irrigate, those whose turn it was after us to irrigate. Now there are no irrigation channels. They have finished. They have collapsed. Nobody takes care of them. We have no water. Now we irrigate from a well. We irrigate from a well by electricity, a motor, pump, we irrigate everything with a hose. Where does drinking water come from? Drinking water—we have a well. We have a well. There are also some who have water. You must have seen those that come (taps), in these also there is drinking water, which have holes and flow by themselves.

How were houses in Canda in the old days? When they had just arrived, some of the houses, I remember them, were houses of mud. They were made of mud brick, brick. They used to build themselves with mud, with straw. You know what straw is, yes? Straw, dry grass, they mixed it with the mud and made bricks. They dried them in the sun. With these they used to build a house. One, in a single one … four walls, one house. They made for it a large bed, for them all to sleep together, father, mother, children. They all slept in that same bed.

They made platforms. A platform (_saccunta_), a platform (_saccun_). It is built a metre in width for sleeping, for sleeping, (it belonged to) the old times, the old times. This was not, however, in our time. They put hay under them, hay, hay. When wheat remains, hay, the dried grass, they slept on this. This was a long time ago, yes. Platforms, what is a platform? They build on the side of the wall, with that mud, or they build with those mud bricks, a metre, a little less, a wall, next to the wall, they build another wall, but a low one for sleeping on, for eating on. When they came, there was no wooden bed, they had nothing. When our people first came here, they had nothing. They lived in pits, pit, half of the house was in the earth. Half of it was covered with earth, like this, pit. Pit, that means, half of it was in the earth, half of it on the surface, underneath, so that it would be warm. As for beams, they laid wooden logs. They laid reeds, bunches of reeds, they tied bunches. They put earth on this, so it would be warm. They made it round like this, then they lined up some of those bunches of reeds on it, so that the water would not flow down into it, but would flow down on the edge. It used to happen that when heavy rain fell, it leaked and became wet. The roof? Yes, there were also roofs. (In the singular one says) _gara_ and _garə_ is also correct. That is correct. Was there leaking? There was leaking, yes, so that it would not come from above, they would roll something on it. Did they shovel the snow? Yes, they shovelled the snow. When there was snow, they used to shovel it. They are not, however, able to shovel rain. When rain fell heavily, they were not able to shovel it and then it used to leak. The snow—they used to go up, sweep it and clean it off. They swept it from the roof so that it would not flow down. Two (old) houses remained in my childhood, I have seen them. With what did they sweep? With what did they sweep?—with a broom. They used to make a broom with … there is a grass there where the graves are. There is a broom plant. There is also a broom plant that grows in kitchen gardens. They made the brooms, ready, so they would have them in winter. Now after a month, already the time of the broom will come. We must (tie) a broom. Now too we are tying a broom to sweep the yard, our own broom at home. Were there windows? There was a window. There was an unglazed window, in the houses of mud bricks. Where would they have windows from? At that time there was no glass. Maybe one person had glass. There were unglazed windows. They called it unglazed window (_cava_).

There was such a time when cattle, a cow, and also people lived together. They brought the cow into the house in the winter. When it wanted to urinate, the head of the house would know about it, he would take a bowl and hold it beneath it, so there would not be a smell. As it urinated, he would hold it before it and it would urinate. He would then take it out and pour it away. Were all the animals in the house? Not all, (only) the cow, together with its young, the cow. A chicken did not have to be in the house. A pig did not have to be in the house. Here in Georgia it is not so cold that they get cold. A pig does not get cold. A pig stays outside. What is the name of the house of pigs?—the nest of a pig. They used to make the pig’s nest like … in the ground, they made a pit in the ground. A pig spends the winter there in a pit. The ground is warm. They would dig the ground like this. They would cover it and put earth on it, so the pig would be warm, poor creature. Chickens had a coop. They called it a chicken coop (_ninə_), where there are chickens, where they roost, they call it a coop. Yes, the house of chickens is called a coop, coop. They used to lay pieces of wood like this. They used to go up on those pieces of wood and roost. They covered the top so that rain would not come onto them. They used to put a sieve for the eggs, an old sieve, in which they put straw, so that the hen would lay eggs in the sieve. They would make it brood when an excess of its eggs accumulated and when the chicken was clucking, clucking, when it lays a lot of eggs it clucks. Then it produces chicks in that sieve on the grass. They make her brood on the eggs. They put twenty-one eggs under her. It was like that. I do not know why. Now also they do this, twenty-one eggs. Yes. They make her brood (on them) and she produces small chicks, yes, the chicken. Then the chicks grow, so they would have (chickens) in the future. They slaughter the older ones. The younger ones grow and become chickens. The name of the chickens’ nest is coop (_ninə_).

What is the name of the house of bees? They called it a bees’ nest. They have their own nest, their own box. This has a hole. They go out and come in, making food for themselves. They make food themselves from this tree, from the blossom, this is a hawthorn tree, a hawthorn, a hawthorn. They take most of the honey from this. Well, now, now is the time for the production of honey. I must see, in these days I must produce honey. You produce some for yourself and you leave some for them, because also they indeed in winter cannot find food. From that food of theirs we take half of it for us and half of it for the bees.

There is a willow tree. There is a hawthorn tree. There is a pear tree, apple tree, mulberry tree—‘mulberry’ (_tutya_) is surely our language—walnut tree, hazelnut tree, plum trees, this is the plum tree. There is the sweet cherry tree. There is the dark cherry tree. What else can I tell you?—black sour plum.

Flowers? Flower—in our language I only know the one name ‘flower’ (_varda_)—red, white flower, yellow flower. Thus (they are called) by their names, our names are not (given) to them. It is possible (that there are names) of ours, but we do not know. It is possible (there are names) of ours. There is saffron.

For winter we used to make for the cattle, we make also now, we harvest grass, we dry it and make a stack. We harvest stalks of maize (_pučečə_). I do not know if _pučečə_ is our language. Maize, when maize dries, you take off the head of maize. You make the maize that you harvest into a bundle. We arrange these bundles on top of each other, so that the rain does not flow down into them, so that they do not rot. In winter we feed them a bundle of maize stalks and we put an armful of grass in the stable. In the morning we get up and they clean under them. They milk them. They put food down for them. They bring them in and give them water to drink when it is cold. When there is some warmth, they go outside, they drink water. They feed them. They bring them back, and put them again in the stable. They put—they have mangers, their name is ‘mangers.’ Mangers are made of a plank. They put grass in the mangers, so they do not scatter it under their feet, for winter grass, also maize stalks. Maize stalks, when the maize plants are cut, when the maize plants are dry, when their root dries, this is called ‘maize stalk’ (_pučeča_). We make this into bundles. We also harvest grass with a scythe in the countryside. We bring it home and put in a heap, and in winter we take some of this and feed them.

What did you used to do for winter? We fried preserved fried meat (_k̭alya_). They stored potatoes, potatoes by themselves, cabbages. They made pickles. You know what pickles are, right?—pickles of chilli, of cabbage, of tomatoes. They had beans, two or three bags of beans. I tell you they used to slaughter a pig. They used to put it in salt water so that it would not rot. They took it out, they washed it, and made _dolma_, they preserved leaves, leaves of the vine. Vine leaves—this _dolma_ is an Assyrian leaf, _dolma_ consisting of leaves with white cheese, with garlic. We make them now also. They used to cook _harisa, harisa_. Have you heard of _harisa_? _harisa_—they used to cook wheat. They put meat in it. Formerly they more often put goose in _harisa_. Now they make it with chicken. Well, they used to have maize flour and they used to make mash. They slowly passed the winter.

Was there snow? In the time of my childhood there was a lot of snow. I remember when I was young my grandmother used to open up a path in the courtyard with a shovel. It was a metre or more than a metre high. At that time good produce was available. Now there is drought, and produce is not available. When the snow came, it filled the trees, the fruit. Now less snow comes. It is colder. The freeze is intense. The roads were very bad. The roads—they used to go with effort with carts, with buffaloes from here, from this street. Over there, I live over there, there was a channel there. There a cart used to sink (and get stuck)—you know a ‘cart,’ right? It has two wheels. They tie a buffalo to it with wood. A cart would get stuck, I remember in my childhood, the carts that used to get stuck, they tied two yokes to them, two yokes, that is, one that was tied to it was not sufficiently strong and they added another, in order to pull the cart out. A yoke was made of wood, sitting on the neck of a buffalo. They would tie it (the buffalo) from underneath with ropes so that it could pull the cart. The cart had two shafts, as they call them, shafts. It was made with these shafts—shaft, shaft. A shaft consists of two pieces of wood. On these shafts they fixed planks, this was for the placing of something on it. In front, where the shafts were there was again a yoke, which they made, so that they could place the yoke on the neck of the buffalo, and they tied it with ropes, with the result that it applies force with its neck and pulls with its shoulders. But when it happened that it did not have the strength, with the shafts of another cart they tied another buffalo at the front with ropes so that this also would help to pull it. I remember that. Yes, I remember that, fifty years ago, fifty years ago. The place that was before our door. The worst place was before our door. There was a lot of mud there. Later, gradually, they brought and laid some stones and so forth and they fixed it.

How did they heat houses? Before the time when stoves came in, there was a fire in the middle of the house. Their house was one room, it was one room. Indeed I am saying, in one corner there were cattle, animals. On the other side they had a bed for themselves, for sleeping. In the middle they had what they called a central fire. Above there was a hole, a window light was left (open). A window light was left in the ceiling above so that the smoke could escape. They used to light the fire in the middle of the house. They lit the fire and they warmed themselves with that fire. The cooking pot was hung over the fire. They made something with wire, on which the pan was tied. They cooked in their pot there, on the fire. Later, as I remember, this was not there anymore, there was a stove, a stove made of iron. Now also we have installed stoves. Yes, we have installed stoves, we warm ourselves with wood. Now some have gas, we warm ourselves with gas. Where did the women cook? On the fire. They had a copper pan. The stirring spoon was wood, but they had a pan. They cooked everything in that. Anybody who had two or three—they used to live rather well. Yes, they called it a copper pan. Copper and something were also mixed together, aluminium. Those pans are still in use. There are some who still have some in the basement, who have old ones, but they do not use them anymore. Yes, in that copper pan, suspended on the fire, they used to cook. in the yard?—In the summer in the yard, in the winter on the central fire. In the winter the fire burned in the house to give warmth. Also their pot was suspended on a wire, and they cook with this. They put everything in one vessel and ate with their hands. This was not very long ago, something like seventy or eighty years ago.