Barwar: The King with Forty Sons

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Geoffrey Khan	Khan, Geoffrey. The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar. 3 vols. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2008, vol. 3	Yuwarəš Xošăba Kena

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0:00	ʾíṯwa xa-màlkaˈ ʾíṯwale ʾárbi bnòne.ˈ brṓn-diye ʾo-zòraˈ ʾítwale ʾarbì šə́nne.ˈ zílle ṭla-babe-dìyeˈ mə́re ʾànaˈ ʾúmrile ʾarbì šə́nne.ˈ ʾína ʾánna xonăwàṯi,ˈ ʾarbì xonăwáṯi,ˈ kúššət magúrət xà,ˈ páyəš ʾúmri tmàni šə́nne.ˈ ʾána bắyən gàwrən.ˈ mə́re b-álaha bróni dū̀s-it.ˈ díya ʾána ṱ-àzənˈ xàzənˈ máčxən ʾarbí baxtàṯaˈ kúllɛxu magurə́nnɛxu b-ġḏàḏe.ˈ qyàmɛleˈ mbaqòrɛle,ˈ zála mára ʾiṯ-xa-nàšaˈ ʾítle ʾárbi bnàṯa.ˈ zálɛle l-xa-ʾáṯṛa xènaˈ ʾu-xzáyəlle ʾo-náša tfáqa bi-dìye.ˈ mára ma-yxàləf,ˈ t-yánna ʾárbi bnàṯiˈ ṭla-ʾárbi bnònux,ˈ ʾína ʾíman ṱ-aṯítu láxxa ṭalòbe,ˈ lá damxítu lá gu-kàrma,ˈ ʾu-lá gu-màrgaˈ ʾu-lá gu-qàṣra.ˈ ʾən-ʾánna mtăməmə̀tla,ˈ ʾána t-yànna-llux.ˈ brṓn-diye ʾo-zóra šə́mme díye Barzə̀kko.ˈ mə́re bróni Barzə̀kkoˈ ʾáti ṱ-àwətˈ qáʾəd d-áyya hə́nna ṱ-azìtu,ˈ ʾína hóle mìraˈ bába d-ánna bnàṯaˈ lá damxítu lá gu-màrga,ˈ ʾu-lá gu-kàrmaˈ ʾu-lá gu-qàṣra.ˈ mə́re ma-yxàləf bábi.ˈ qyámɛla zàla,ˈ zála mṭàyɛla,ˈ yóma gnàyɛle,ˈ dmáxɛla gu-xa-màrga,ˈ dawàrela,ˈ məndiyànela,ˈ ʾu-ʾíṯə ʾɛ́nət mìya táma.ˈ mə́ra bíš m-áyya dúkṯa ʾɛ̀ka xázəx?ˈ ʾáxni dámxəx làxxa.ˈ kúlla dmàxɛla.ˈ ʾo-yála pyášɛle naṭòra d-áni,ˈ ḥàrəs.ˈ xa-béna ʾo-xzàyɛle,ˈ ʾína xzáyɛle xa-nàša,ˈ xáʾa lwíša kòma,ˈ súse kòma,ˈ rúmxe múttəlla bēn-nā́ṯ sùstaˈ ʾap-áy kùmta.ˈ ṯáyɛle xḏárɛle č̭ənnək̭ɛ́rə d-an-nàše.ˈ mṭáya l-d-àwˈ mə́re Barzə̀kkoˈ ʾáti pálṭət gu-d-ànna,ˈ ʾánna kúlla díya ṱ-oḏə́nna qàlya,ˈ yáʿni qaṭlə̀nna.ˈ ʾɛ̀,ˈ xáṭər ʾalàha,ˈ lá-ʾoḏət ʾo-šùla,ˈ ʾáxxa l-tàmma.ˈ ʾánna har-xonăwàṯi,ˈ nàšile.ˈ mə́re márənnux plúṭ m-àxxa,ˈ gu-d-ànna.ˈ ʾìnaˈ kùlla b-qaṭlə́nna.ˈ ʾáti lítlux šúla mən-d-ànna.ˈ ʾáw ráqa zála l-ṭùra,ˈ ráqa sáqa báṯre dìye.ˈ ʾawwa-náša wárɛle gu-xa-gə̀ppa.ˈ ʾítle xonăwáṯa táma ʾu-yə̀mma.ˈ mə́re rzúgu ṣàləx.ˈ hambišàyela.ˈ ʾíṯwa ṭḷáṯi hambišáye gu-xa-gə̀ppa.ˈ mára rzúgu ṣàləx.ˈ hóla gu-màrga,ˈ hóla də́rye náše tàma.ˈ ṣàləx,ˈ qaṭlə̀xla,ˈ ʾaxlə̀xla.ˈ ṭla-ḏà-šeta maḷílən.ˈ Barzə́kko módi wìdle?ˈ hóle kə́lya l-tắrət gə̀ppa.ˈ ʾánna plàṭɛla.ˈ kúṱ-ile plàṭaˈ xa-sɛ́pa gu-káse qámət gə̀ppa.ˈ yə́mma d-an-hambišàyeˈ márɛla ṭla-brṓn d-o-zòraˈ bròni,ˈ ʾáp-ʾana mɛṯə́tli xá … ʾáṭmət súsa ṱ-àxlən.ˈ bálki ʾánna xonăwáṯux là mɛṯíli.ˈ plàṭɛle,ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw qṭàləlle.ˈ wárɛle Barzə́kko ṭáləb d-ày,ˈ yə́mmət hambišàye.ˈ mə́re ʾànaˈ mɛṯə́nnəx ʾáṭməd xzùra.ˈ ʾáp-ʾay qṭàləlla.ˈ ʾo-ṣlàyɛle.ˈ ʾítwale xulàma.ˈ súse díye mtaslóməlle ṭla-xulàma.ˈ wára gu-čádre dìye,ˈ dmáxa hal-mbàdla.ˈ mbàdla,ˈ qyàmɛla,ˈ kúlla bắyi ṱ-àzi,ˈ ʾáwwɛle dmìxa Barzə́kko.ˈ mára də-mărəšúle Barzə̀kko!ˈ hal-ʾíma dàməx?ˈ măróšəlle m-tàmaˈ b-yòma,ˈ qyáma zàla.ˈ zála, zàla,ˈ mṭáya,ˈ mṭáya kàrma.ˈ xa-kàrmɛleˈ rába gòṛa.ˈ ʾə̀nwe ʾíṯ gáwe,ˈ ʾɛnáṯə mìya,ˈ məndiyàne,ˈ kùll-xa mə́ndi.ˈ mṭáyɛle xa-náša xèna.ˈ ʾánna kúlla dmàxɛla.ˈ Barzə́kko pyáša ḥàrəs-ile.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle xá-naša xèna,ˈ lwíša lwíšta smòqta,ˈ súsa smòqa,ˈ rúmxa smòqta.ˈ b-lɛ́le rúmxe díye hóla mxáya kizə̀kke,ˈ ma-ṱ-íle ʾo-náša rába xɛlàna.ˈ plúṭ m-d-ànnaˈ ʾáti šə́mmux zìlɛle.ˈ pìšɛleˈ kízle mparpóle bìye:ˈ nàša,ˈ ʾánna xonăwàṯila,ˈ ʾáxxa l-tàmma.ˈ mára màrənnuxˈ ʾáti grùš gánuxˈ ʾánna dìyaˈ kúlla parqə̀nna.ˈ mára ʾáp-ʾaw hóle plìša.ˈ ʾáw-w ʾó-naša plàša,ˈ plàša,ˈ plàšaˈ hál gu-mbadlàṯa.ˈ gu-mbadláṯa mxɛ́ṯət yóma ʾó-naša tlìqɛle.ˈ rxìšɛleˈ ʾo-Barzə́kko zíla dmìxa.ˈ dart-yóma qímela zìleˈ ʾáp-ʾaw qúnəx ṭḷáṯa mə́ṭye l-qàṣra.ˈ mə́ṭyela l-qàṣra,ˈ mə́re b-álaha mìrɛle xəmyáni lá damxítu láxxa tămáha.ˈ ʾánna xonăwáṯe ʾo-gòṛaˈ ʾáwwa kàze, Barzə́kkoˈ yába là dámxəx gu-d-áwwa qáṣra.ˈ dámxəx l-wằdər.ˈ xəmyáni hàtxɛle míra.ˈ mə́ra gu-márga-w kɛ́rma mù xzélux ta-t-xázət láxxa?ˈ ʾáxni làxxa dámxəx.ˈ mə́re mà-yxaləfˈ dmúxu!ˈ dmíxela tàma.ˈ ʾánna kúlla dmìxelaˈ ʾáwwa qíma hàrəs-ile.ˈ gu-mbádla ʾə́ṯyɛle xàˈ xá, xá-susa xwàra,ˈ rúmxe xwɛ̀rta,ˈ kúlla lwíšte xwɛ̀rta.ˈ ʾə́ṯya mə̀reˈ Barzə́kko ʾáti šə̀mmuxˈ šə́myəx b-šămáṯə šə̀mmux.ˈ plúṭ mən-d-áwwa qàṣra,ˈ ʾáwwa ṱ-oḏə́nne čòl.ˈ kízle ʾáxxa-w tàmma,ˈ mparpóle bìye,ˈ ʾáwwa là.ˈ mxáyɛle rúmxe ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ mára mu-mxélux gu-xàṣi?ˈ mə́re čù-məndi,ˈ tabzìya qítle gu-xáṣux.ˈ mxáya sɛ́pa gu-rèše,ˈ čù-məndi.ˈ káze b-čù-ʾurxa lɛ́le mṣáya bíye.ˈ xárṯa mə́re xzí ṱ-amrə̀nnux.ˈ ṭlúb măṭáləb dìyux.ˈ módi bằyətˈ ʾána ṱ-oḏə̀nnux.ˈ ʾàxčiˈ šoqə̀tlənˈ ʾàxniˈ ṱ-ázəx ʾay-wajəbúṯa mkamlə̀xla.ˈ mə́re măṭáləb dìyiˈ ṱ-ázət mɛṯə́tli Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàre.ˈ mɛ́ṯətla ṱ-óya báxta ṭlàli,ˈ šoqə̀nnuxˈ ṱ-azìtu.ˈ ʾə̀llaˈ gắrəg mqàwlətˈ ʾən-làˈ kùllɛxu qaṭlənnɛ́xu.ˈ mə́re wadùṯa,ˈ šúqlən ṱ-ázəx ṱ-àṯəx láxxa,ˈ m-gu-d-àwwa qáṣraˈ ʾána l-bɛ́ṯa là-ʾazən,ˈ mɛṯə́nna Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàr-əllux.ˈ xa-bráta šə̀mmaˈ Čəlkằze,ˈ ʾárbi ṣoṣiyàṯa,ˈ kùrdəṯ-ila.ˈ ʾu-Bắdal Sahàre,ˈ yaʿni kə́xwət gu-mbadlàṯa.ˈ šə́mma d-ɛ̀-brata,ˈ ma-ṱ-íla šapìrta.ˈ zálɛle kəs-d-o-xəmyáne dìye.ˈ ʾamə̀rreˈ šŭrūṭ-díyi mkumlìlux?ˈ mkumlìlɛxu?ˈ mə́re hè!ˈ mə́re làˈ lètun mkúmləlla.ˈ mə́re hótu dmíxe gu-màrga.ˈ ʾu-mòditu xə́zye?ˈ ʾà,ˈ paxàlta.ˈ ʾán naṯyáṯə d-àn hambišáyeˈ nə̀šyənna.ˈ prìməlla-wˈ də́ryəlla gu-xúrje dìye.ˈ mə́re dmíxetu gu-kàrmaˈ mòditu xə́zye?ˈ xóna ʾo-góṛa mə́re čú-məndi lax-xə̀zye.ˈ w-an-xonăwáṯa xéne mə́ra čú-məndi lax-xə̀zye.ˈ mə́re bas-lè-y-yənna bnáṯi-llɛxu.ˈ ʾo-xóna zóra ʾə́ṯyɛle mə́re hè,ˈ dū̀s-it.ˈ ʾə́ṯyəx də́ryəx gu-màrga.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle xá-naša ṭàlbən.ˈ zílən mpurə̀pla bíyeˈ lɛ̀le wíya.ˈ ríqa síqa l-ṭùra.ˈ síqən bàṯre.ˈ gu-xa-gə́ppa hambišàye-wawa.ˈ plìṭela.ˈ kúṱ-ile plìṭaˈ qṭìlənəlle.ˈ ha-t-yəmméy wírən ṭàlbaˈ qṭìlənna,ˈ ʾánna naṯyaṯèy.ˈ mrúpyəlla qáme dìye.ˈ mə́re dū̀s-it.ˈ ʾáyya ḏà.ˈ yómə tré ʾɛ̀kɛtu dmíxe?ˈ mə́re dmíxəx gu-kàrma.ˈ mə́re ṭla-d-an-xonăwáṯe dìyeˈ mòditu xə́zye?ˈ mə́ra čù-məndi lax-xə̀zye.ˈ ʾáwwa mə́re dáx xə̀zyəx!ˈ mə́re ʾə́ṯyɛle xa-nàšaˈ xa-súsa smòqa,ˈ kúlle lwíša smòqa,ˈ wíyəx pláša m-ʾaṣə́rta hal-gu-mbadlàṯa.ˈ lan-mə́ṣya bíye dìye.ˈ gu-mbàdlaˈ ríqa zìlɛle.ˈ mxɛ́ṯət šə́mša tlìqɛle.ˈ mə́re ʾáp-ʾay dū̀s-it.ˈ mə́re gu-qàṣra móditu xə̀zye?ˈ mə́re gu-qáṣra ʾə́ṯyɛle xà,ˈ dewə̀rriš-ile,ˈ làn-ḏaʾa mo-qaríwale,ˈ dewə̀rriš.ˈ màraˈ kízən mpurə́plən bíye ta-šawə̀qlən,ˈ lɛ̀le zíla.ˈ mára maxə́nwale sɛ́pa gu-xàṣe.ˈ yáha mə́re mù-mxelux gu-xáṣi.ˈ tabzìya qítla bíyux.ˈ maxə́nwale rúmxi ʾə́lle dìyeˈ mù-qítle bíyi?ˈ kút-dana xa-hajə̀tta.ˈ mára b-əlʾaxī̀rˈ múrri măṭáləb díyux mòdila.ˈ ʾána ṱ-oḏə̀nna-llux.ˈ mə́re măṭáləb díyi mə́re ʾázət mɛṯə́tla Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàre.ˈ hóla p-ápe šawwà yamáṯa.ˈ mɛṯə̀tta-lli,ˈ šoqə́nnux ṱ-àzət.ˈ ʾən-là,ˈ là-šoqən ṱ-azítu.ˈ mə́re dū̀s-it.ˈ qímɛle híwəlla bnáṯe dìyeˈ ṭla-d-an-nàše,ˈ bəd-xáṭər d-ó-xona zòra.ˈ zílɛle mə́ṭyɛle l-kɛ́rma ʾu-məndiyàneˈ ʾu-l-qàṣra.ˈ ʾo-qáṣra ʾo-náša hàdəx-ile wíḏəlle,ˈ ʾəṣrà-gaye béna qamáya.ˈ xa-qúnəx wíḏəlle tàza,ˈ kanàpe-wˈ xalìye-wˈ mɛxòlta,ˈ kùl-xa mə́ndi.ˈ ʾó-xona zóra ʾámər ṭla-xonăwáṯa d-an-xèneˈ ʾáyya báxti nàblulaˈ mənnɛ̀xu.ˈ ʾána m-axxa-húdxa lɛ̀-y-azən.ˈ ʾítli šùla.ˈ ʾáni zìlela.ˈ mə́ṭye l-bɛṯàyˈ wíḏela xlùla.ˈ ʾu-čídla nàše,ˈ dùnye qəm-čɛdíla.ˈ wídla xa-ḥàfla,ˈ xa-xlùlaˈ ràba xɛlána.ˈ ʾo-xóna zóra lìṯ.ˈ xóna zóra píšle gu-qàṣra,ˈ kəs-d-o-nàša.ˈ mə́re háyyo mùrriˈ ʾay-mòdi,ˈ ʾáyya Čəlkắze Bắdal Saháre mòdila-wˈ ʾɛ̀kɛla.ˈ mə́re ʾàyyaˈ ṱ-àzətˈ máṭət l-yáma qamɛ̀ṯa,ˈ ḏa-yàma.ˈ ʾáy hóla p-ápe šawwà yamáṯa.ˈ ʾítla šawwà xonăwáṯa.ˈ ʾítla xa-qáṣra pàtəl.ˈ kút yaṣílət qàṣraˈ ʾíṯ ḏa-yàwna gáwe díye,ˈ yàwna.ˈ màraˈ ʾánna šáwwa yamáṯa pɛḏə̀tla,ˈ máṭət l-ò-qaṣra.ˈ ʾo-qáṣra hóle pṯàla,ˈ qə́šta-w gèraˈ kut-yáwna maxə̀tla.ˈ máxətla yàwna,ˈ ʾaw-yaṣíla xéna xaḏə̀r-əllux.ˈ mára há-t ʾánna šáwwa yawnáṯa qaṭlə̀tla,ˈ mára qáṣra kàle.ˈ b-kàle,ˈ xárṯa ʾàsqət,ˈ ʾən-màṣət.ˈ ʾítla šawwà xonăwáṯa.ˈ ʾən-máṣət šaqlə́tla Čəlkằze,ˈ mɛṯə́tla làxxaˈ ʾu-ʾáti sàxi,ˈ xēr-ʿala-xḕr.ˈ ʾu-ʾən-là máṣət,ˈ ʾáni qaṭlìlux.ˈ zḕnˈ mə̀reˈ ʾánna šáwwa yamàṯaˈ ʾana mù pɛḏə́nna?ˈ lítli ṭayyàra,ˈ hɛlikòptərˈ dax-ṱ-íla dìya.ˈ mə́re hàˈ ʾáp-ʾay dū̀s-it.ˈ mə́re ṱ-àzətˈ l-yáma qamɛ̀ṯa,ˈ ʾàzət,ˈ ʾíṯgena xa-ṭùra.ˈ trè ṭuránela,ˈ wàdilaˈ bēl-ṭúra l-ṭùra.ˈ ṣálət xázət xa-képa l-márzət yàma.ˈ dɛ́rət ʾíḏux xo-d-ò-kepa,ˈ b-xázət xá ləxxàwət súsa,ˈ mattíle gu-púmmət sùsa,ˈ lìṯ.ˈ mára zadə́tle hátxa gu-yàma.ˈ pálṭa sústət yamàṯa.ˈ ʾay-pàrxa.ˈ màraˈ ʾaw-ləxxáwa ṱ-áṯe púmma dìya.ˈ ṱ-áttət xáṣa dìya.ˈ mára maqḏánnux gu-šə́mšət šmàyya.ˈ ʾáti ʾámrət ṣálən xo-kàsəx.ˈ mə́ra maṣə́lyannux šə́ttət yamàṯa,ˈ ʾáti ʾámrət ṱ-áttən xàṣəx.ˈ mə́re hát ʾóḏa wadúṯa l-ʾiṯàṯux,ˈ wadúṯa ṭḷá gàye.ˈ mára ʾà-danaˈ ʾáyya nablàlux,ˈ mapərxálux šawwà yamáṯa,ˈ máṭət l-d-o-qàṣra.ˈ máṭət l-d-ò-qaṣra,ˈ háwət hə́šyər ʾína ʾáyya sústa là marpə́tla.ˈ mə́re ʾína mò ṱ-óḏen bíya?ˈ mə́re ʾasṛə̀tla xa-dúkṯa,ˈ t-la-šarṭa-w ʾàza.ˈ mə́re ma-yxàləf.ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw qyàmɛleˈ táwa xáṣət súse dìye-wˈ ṣlàya.ˈ ṣlàya,ˈ ṣlàyaˈ ʾax-ṱ-íle pqìḏəlle.ˈ ʾáwwa t-wéwa ṣláya l-márzət xa-yàma,ˈ ʾax-ṱ-íle pqìḏəlle.ˈ xzéle xa-képa rába gòṛa.ˈ ʾáwəḏ ʾíḏe xo-d-ò képa,ˈ ʾína xa-ləxxáwət sùsta.ˈ daréle gu-yáma hə̀šyər.ˈ ʾá sustə-yamáṯa plìṭṭɛla.ˈ tíwɛle xáṣə dìya.ˈ mə́ra maqḏánnux qam-šmàyya,ˈ m-núrə šmàyya,ˈ šə̀mša.ˈ mə́re ṣálən xo-kàsəx.ˈ mə́ra maṣlánnux gu-ʾúmqət yamàṯaˈ mə́re ṱ-áttən xàṣəx.ˈ de-hádəx dèˈ ha-ṱ-íla wíḏta tóba l-iṯáṯe dìye.ˈ mə́ra mòdi bắyət?ˈ mə́re nábəlli l-qáṣrət Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàre.ˈ mára prìxtɛla,ˈ nubáltəlle l-d-ɛ̀-dukṯa.ˈ xzíṯəlle xa-qàṣraˈ ʾína pṯàla,ˈ ʾax-t-wéwa mìra.ˈ šawwà yaṣíle bíye díye.ˈ kut-yaṣìlaˈ ḏa-yáwna tàma.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži ʾíṯwale qə́šta-w géra d-ɛ̀-ga,ˈ lìṯ?ˈ də́ryəlla xá čə́rək ʾu-mə̀xyəlla.ˈ ʾap-ʾa-xéta ṯìṯa.ˈ qáṣra kə̀lya.ˈ ʾáyya Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàreˈ yăḏàwaˈ ʾáwwa hóle ṯàya.ˈ xonăwáṯa díya mšudártəlla l-ṭúra l-ṣɛ̀da,ˈ xúšu wúḏu ṣɛ̀da!ˈ sab-ʾáp-ʾay bắya t-goràwa,ˈ žàre.ˈ ʾáwwa síqa ṭálba dìyaˈ mə́ra jálde jàlde,ˈ xonăwáṯi t-la-maṭìlux.ˈ ʾáp-ʾay ṯíṯɛla mə̀nneˈ ʾɛ̀ka?ˈ ʾína súste díye hàzərˈ t-yamàṯa.ˈ tíwa xāṣ-sùsta,ˈ ʾu-ʾáy múttəlla báṯre dìyeˈ ʾu-réša-reša yamàṯa.ˈ xéna màraˈ kèpe mə́ra ṭla-xonăwáṯa núbləlla Čəlkắze.ˈ ʾilàne mára núbləlla Čəlkắze,ˈ ṭla-xonăwáṯa dìya.ˈ ʾáni rìqe,ˈ ʾə́ṯye l-bɛ̀ṯa,ˈ xə́zye ʾína qáṣra sapìqa.ˈ mátti bála gu-yàma,ˈ ʾìnaˈ ʾa-sústət yamàṯaˈ nabòləllaˈ Čəlkằze.ˈ mə́ra si-nublàlux.ˈ háwya halā̀l ṭlálux.ˈ b-xɛ́lət gànux nublálux.ˈ ʾə́ṯyela hìwəllaˈ ʾáy mə́ra lɛ̀kət nabóləlli?ˈ mə́re ʾána làn ṭláli nabóləlləx.ˈ nabóləlləx ṭla-d-áwwa dewə̀rrəš.ˈ mə́ra ḥărā́m-ile gáwṛa ʾə̀lliˈ šúq mən-dìyux.ˈ mə́ra ḥarā́m-ile gáwṛa ṭlàliˈ šúq mən-dìyux.ˈ mə́re xéna hàtxɛla qə́ṣṣət.ˈ mə́ra ʾáti nàbəlli táma.ˈ ʾána ṱ-óḏən xa-xə̀ṭṭa.ˈ xàzəxˈ qaṭlə̀xle ʾáwwa náša.ˈ mo-ṱ-òḏəx?ˈ qaṭlə̀xle.ˈ mə́re ʾána mjùrbən,ˈ kɛ́zən mxàya.ˈ mxéli rúmxa gu-rèšeˈ čú-məndi la-wìdla.ˈ mxéli sɛ́pa ʾə̀lle,ˈ čú-məndi la-wìdla.ˈ mə́ra šùqle-ʾəlli.ˈ ʾàna mtagəbránne.ˈ zála nabòle,ˈ zílla mṭèlaˈ l-qàṣra.ˈ ʾo-dewə́rrəš plíṭɛle l-ṣɛ̀da.ˈ ʾə̀ṯyɛle,ˈ ḏa-ʾilànaˈ hóla rš-rúše dìyeˈ mḷíṯɛla mən-rə́jbət ʾằra,ˈ dèwela,ˈ tèlela,ˈ harnùwela.ˈ har-qṭíla də́rya múṯya l-bɛ̀ṯa.ˈ xa-ʿafrī̀t-wewa.ˈ xḏèle bíya díya,ˈ qəm-dawə́qle qádra dìyaˈ xá-mdit ʾajəbùṯa.ˈ píšla trè-yome táma.ˈ ʾáw-w bàxta,ˈ Čəlkằzeˈ ʾo-yàla,ˈ wídla xàbra-xaˈ mə́ra là-ʾazətˈ šoqə́tli yàla.ˈ mə́ra ʾána xázyən ʾáwwa xɛ́le díye ʾɛ̀kɛle.ˈ dàxi máṣəx bíye díye,ˈ ta-t-pàrqəx mə́nne díye.ˈ ʾu-ʾána ṱ-àṯyən mə́nnux.ˈ de-píšla ʾáp-ʾay báxtə d-àwwa dewə̀rrəš.ˈ kút-yum ʾáṯya xa-hàjətta daryáwa bíye díyeˈ ʾáti xɛ́lux ʾɛ̀kɛle?ˈ róxux ʾɛ̀kɛla-w?ˈ ʾu-dáx-it xyàʾa?ˈ mìḏən mó,ˈ bàxtɛla dé!ˈ dè,ˈ dè,ˈ xàrṯaˈ kút-yum y-amə̀rwaˈ xà-yoma.ˈ xá-yoma mə̀reˈ xɛ́li hóla gu-d-áyya kanòšta.ˈ qəm-šaqlàla kanóšta,ˈ daryála gu-nùra.ˈ čú-məndi lìṯ.ˈ ʾay-mə́ra làˈ gxìklux bíyi.ˈ lɛ̀le xɛ́lux gu-d-áy kanóšta.ˈ dárt-yoma ṯèleˈ mə́re ʾána xɛ́li hóle gu-xa-qɛ́sa xèna.ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw dárt-yoma ʾaw-qɛ́sa šqìlla,ˈ muqìdla,ˈ čù-məndi.ˈ mə́ra xzí ṱ-amrànnux.ˈ ʾáti hot-gkàxa bíyi.ˈ lítlux ṯə́qa bìyi.ˈ ʾána bàxtux-iwən.ˈ ʾən-lá galə̀tliˈ róxux gu-mòdilaˈ ʾu-dáx-it xyàʾa,ˈ ʾána xà-yoma kə́slux la-pɛ́šən.ˈ mə́re xzá ṱ-amrə̀nnəx.ˈ róxi hóla gu-táwrət wàla.ˈ gu-ṣádre dìyeˈ ʾíṯ ḏá qoṱìya.ˈ gu-d-ó qoṱíya ʾíla xa-ṣə̀pra,ˈ mə́re ʾá-ṣəpra ʾíla ròxi,ˈ ʾən-lá qaṭlíle ʾo-táwrət wàla,ˈ šaqlíle ʾo-ṣə̀pra.ˈ kút-dana ʾa-ṣə́pra mìtle,ˈ ʾɛ́-ga ʾana-mɛ̀ṯən.ˈ mə́re ʾó tawrət-wála-ži là máyəṯ,ˈ ʾə́lla gríša ṭḷá gérət qə́šta-w gèra,ˈ mən-sadánəd Mə̀ṣr.ˈ ṭḷá gére gríše mən-d-àw,ˈ b-d-áw yálla màyəṯ.ˈ ʾáwwa zìlɛle.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle ʾo-yálət băyàwale.ˈ mə́re ʾáh qə́ṣṣət mòdila.ˈ mára b-álaha hā́l-u qə́ṣṣət hàtxɛla.ˈ mára ʾáwwa sadánət Mə́ṣr-ži lá pằqe.ˈ mə́re ʾàna păqə́nne.ˈ mə́ra dàxi?ˈ pṯíltəlle xá mən-káwsa dìya,ˈ mə́ra ʾázət ṭḷà yománeˈ ha-t-dóqət šárṭ mən-d-òˈ náša.ˈ múrre ʾána pálxən rəš-d-ò sadánaˈ hat-pằqe.ˈ ʾən-pằqe,ˈ gáršətli ṭḷá-gere-w qə̀šta mə́nne díye.ˈ ʾən-là mpŭqéli,ˈ ʾána pálxən b-réše díye bălā̀š.ˈ mə́ra kút-yum pálxət b-réše mbádla hal-ʾaṣə̀rta.ˈ ʾáwwa bə́ska patlə́tle hàtxa.ˈ lítlux šùla,ˈ ʾázət dàmxət.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži zìlaˈ mbùqrɛle,ˈ tfìqɛle rəš-d-ó sadánə Mə̀ṣr.ˈ wíḏɛle mqàwăla mə́nne díye.ˈ mə́re ʾána rəš-d-áwwa bălā̀š.ˈ ʾən-mpŭqèliˈ garšə́tli ṭḷa-gére mə́nne dìye.ˈ ʾu-ʾən-là mpŭqéli,ˈ ʾána pálxən b-réše bălā̀š.ˈ mə́re nàšaˈ zlámət gànuxˈ ʾáwwa mằni mpăqéle?ˈ mə́re b-álaha hàtxa.ˈ ʾən-păqə̀nne,ˈ t-yátli ṭḷa-gère-w-qəšta.ˈ ʾən-là,ˈ čù-məndi.ˈ mə́re ma-yxàləf.ˈ plùx.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži páləx kút-yum mbádla hal-ʾaṣə̀rta.ˈ ʾaṣə́rta ʾo-bə́ska t-Čəlkằzeˈ maxèwa,ˈ šayə́pwale gu-d-ò sadána,ˈ ʾu-y-azə̀lwa.ˈ xà-yoma,ˈ yómə trè,ˈ yómə ṭḷàṯa,ˈ gu-mbadlàṯa,ˈ gu-b-lɛ̀le,ˈ šmíya xa-pàmma!ˈ pqìle.ˈ ʾáwwa zìla,ˈ qíma mbádla zíla ʾína ʾo-pə̀qya.ˈ ʾɛ́-ga ʾó-mara d-o-sadánə Mə́ṣr qímɛle wíḏɛle ṭḷa-gére mən-d-ó sadánə Mə̀ṣr.ˈ qímɛle díṛɛle zìla.ˈ ʾó dewə̀rrəš b-yóma y-azə́lwa l-ṭùra,ˈ b-lɛ̀le y-aṯéwa.ˈ ʾáw b-yóma zíla kəs-d-a-Čəlkằze.ˈ mə́re ṯéli hó ʾan-ṭḷá gerə-qə̀šta.ˈ mə́ra xzì.ˈ ʾáwwa ṭúra ʾíṯgena ḏa-ʾɛ́nət míya tàma.ˈ ʾáwwa táwrət wàlaˈ yomíyya xá-bena ṣále š-d-ɛ-ʾɛ́nət mìyaˈ šáte mìya.ˈ ʾázət máttət xa-ṭaṭìya.ˈ náblət xáčča qìra.ˈ mə́ra ʾáyya mattə́tla gu-mìya,ˈ ʾa-qìraˈ darə́tla b-rèša.ˈ ʾan-míya kàtpi.ˈ là-palṭi míya.ˈ dárət xáčča xàmra,ˈ xáčča bìš hódəx mənna-díya,ˈ xàmra.ˈ mára ʾáwwa táwra ṱ-áṯe xáze míya lìṯgena,ˈ mayə̀xle ríxə d-o-xámraˈ lè-y-šate.ˈ ṱ-ázəl ṭúra xá-ga xéta ṱ-àṯe.ˈ páyəš májbur béna xaráya šàte,ˈ mən-d-ó-xamra b-ràwe.ˈ ṱ-áṯe l-dmàxa.ˈ mára ʾɛ̀-gaˈ maxə́tla ʾánna qə́šta-w gére ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ qaṭlə̀tle,ˈ màyəṯ.ˈ parmə̀tle,ˈ paṯxə́tle ṣádre dìye.ˈ ʾa-qoṱìya,ˈ xa-qotíya ʾax-d-àwwɛle,ˈ mə̀raˈ m-gu-ṣádre dìyeˈ šaqlə̀tleˈ mɛṯə́tle ṭlàli.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži zàlɛle,ˈ nabòləllaˈ xámra mə́nna dìya,ˈ l-d-à-dukṯa.ˈ xzàyəlla ʾɛ́na.ˈ mdabòqəllaˈ mattóye qìra,ˈ ṭaṭíya-w qìra.ˈ míya ktàpɛla.ˈ dráyɛle biš-hódəx mə́nna díya xáčča xàmra.ˈ ʾáw mattóyəlla gáne dìye.ˈ hóle xpírəlla xa-dùkṯaˈ mṭašòyəlla.ˈ mṭùšyəlla.ˈ xa-béna ʾə́ṯyɛle ʾaw-táwrət wàlaˈ ṭla-šáte mìya.ˈ míya lɛ́le xə̀zya.ˈ zìlɛleˈ míxɛle ʾína ríxət xàmra.ˈ lɛ̀le šə́tya mə́nna.ˈ zíla xá-ga xéta l-ṭùra.ˈ ṣìya-wewa,ˈ xà-ga xéta ṯéle,ˈ xà-ga xéta lɛ́le šə́tya.ˈ béna ṭḷá ṯéle štèle.ˈ štèle,ˈ guyžə̀nne,ˈ rwèle.ˈ ʾó-naša hóle tíwa gu-čằpər táma.ˈ maxéle ṭḷá qə́šta-w géra ʾə́lle dìyeˈ npìlɛle.ˈ zíla prìməlle,ˈ pṯìxa ṣádre díye.ˈ ʾína ḏá qotíya hátxa zòra.ˈ šqìləlla,ˈ mùsqəlla,ˈ híwəlla ṭla-Čəlkằze,ˈ ṭla-d-a-báxtə t-wéwa mùṯyəlla.ˈ mə́re Čəlkằzeˈ hòla.ˈ mə́ra háwət basíma ràba.ˈ ʾo-dewə̀rrəšˈ ʾímə ṱ-ile-mə́xyəlle táwrət wàlaˈ ṛìšɛleˈ mgunə̀gzɛle.ˈ hàtxɛwa,ˈ ʾax-mə̀rya.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle l-bɛ́ṯa ʾína mə̀rya.ˈ mə́ra ʾa-mà-lux?ˈ mə́re b-àlaha,ˈ làn-ḏaʾa,ˈ ʾáwwa táwrət wála lán-ḏaʾa módi ʾə́ṯya bìye,ˈ npílɛle b-ʾisàra,ˈ ʾawwa xà-məndile qíṯa bíye.ˈ lán-ḏaʾa módila qə̀ṣṣət.ˈ díya hon-rába mə̀rya.ˈ mə́re čù-ga hátxa lan-mə́rya.ˈ də́ryəlla xa-šwìṯaˈ dmìxɛle.ˈ ʾay-ži pṯíxtəlle ʾo-sandùqaˈ mə́ra hòleˈ čučə̀kka.ˈ mára dwìqtəlleˈ ʾoḏále rúše hàtxa,ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw nayə̀dwa rúše díye.ˈ nčíltəlle rèše-wˈ rùše-wˈ kúlla rupɛ̀ṯəlla.ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw mìtwaleˈ har-a-dàna.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle ʾo-gàwṛa díya,ˈ ʾo-t-wéwa mùṯyəlla.ˈ muxbə̀rtəlle,ˈ ʾə̀ṯyɛleˈ l-bɛ̀ṯa.ˈ šqìləlla.ˈ píšɛle táma kəmà-dana.ˈ šqíləlla ʾu-zíla l-bɛ̀ṯa.ˈ zíla l-bɛ́ṯət bàbe díye.ˈ bábe díye màlkɛle.ˈ hóle xa-pláša gu-d-a-màṯa,ˈ ʾajəbùṯa.ˈ ʾáwwa báxte díye múttəlla gu-ḏa-dùkṯa.ˈ ʾíṯwa xa-bɛ̀ṯa.ˈ zílɛle mə́re mòdila qə́ṣṣət?ˈ mòdila qə́ṣṣət?ˈ mə́ra b-àlaha,ˈ ʾáwwa málka ʾítwale xá bròna.ˈ báxte díye mùṯyəlla.ˈ ʾímə ṱ-íla zála múṯyəlla ʾarbí baxtàṯa,ˈ múṯyəlla báxte dìye.ˈ ʾaw-málka bắye kálṯe dìye,ˈ báxtət bróne dìye.ˈ ʾu-báxtət brōn-díye là-qabla.ˈ ʾan-ʾárbi baxtáṯa kúlla xaṯwàṯɛla,ˈ dárqūl d-a-məndìla.ˈ ʾu-málka hóle mhuyə̀ra,ˈ mára ʾə̀lla gắrəg ʾáyya bráta gorə́nna.ˈ mšadóre náše l-d-ó qàṣra.ˈ kút-yum plàšɛlaˈ ta-t-doqíla ʾa-bràta,ˈ doqíla ʾa-bràtaˈ mɛṯɛ́la ta-t-gáwra màlka,ˈ bàbe díye.ˈ bábə díye bắye gàwra.ˈ bábe díye màlkɛwa.ˈ mára ʾáp-ʾaw qímɛle zìlɛle,ˈ píšɛle xuláma t-màlka.ˈ mšoxə̀lpəlla júlle díye. pìšɛleˈ xolámət màlka,ˈ maštóye susăwáṯa mìya.ˈ kút-yum ʾánna palṭíwa plàša.ˈ mòdila qə́ṣṣət?ˈ mə́re l-d-o-qáṣra t-wɛ́wa ʾárbi bnáṯa gáwe dìye,ˈ xaṯwáṯa dìya.ˈ mə́re mòdila gu-d-áwwa qáṣra?ˈ mə́re b-àlahaˈ ʾíṯgena ʾarbí bnàṯa,ˈ kaláṯət màlka,ˈ ḏá-mənna zùrta,ˈ gáwṛa díya zíla b-dùnye,ˈ bắye málka gawə̀rra.ˈ ʾu-ʾánna hóla ʾàṣi ʾə́lle díye.ˈ mə́re ga-béna ʾánna kúlla ṱ-íla zála lɛ́la mṣáya b-an-ʾárbi bnàṯa?ˈ kút-yum zála hàtxaˈ jḗš m-ánna ʾatwánə xáṣə susăwàṯa,ˈ swarìyye.ˈ lɛ́la mṣáya b-an-ʾárbi bnàṯa?ˈ ʾàna ṱ-ázən mɛṯə́nna.ˈ mṭáyɛle xábra l-màlka.ˈ mṭáyɛle xábra l-màlkaˈ mə́re málka ṱ-áwət basìma,ˈ ʾáwwa saqáwa d-ánna susăwàṯa,ˈ mə́re ʾàna ṱ-ázən šaqlə́nna-ana.ˈ mə́re mšádrule ṱ-àṯe.ˈ zíla mə́re mòdi bắyət?ˈ málka ṱ-áwe basìma,ˈ kùllaˈ ʾárbi bnàṯɛla láxxa,ˈ baxtàṯɛla,ˈ dáx létu mṣáya bìya?ˈ ʾána ṱ-àzən.ˈ hállule xa-sùsa.ˈ tə́mməl mbádla ʾàzəl.ˈ šqála dárt-yoma xà-susaˈ táwa xáṣe díye zàlaˈ hèˈ ʾána fə̀llən,ˈ hàyyo,ˈ háyyo plùṭu.ˈ kut-bắye páləš mə́nni páləš mə̀nni.ˈ ʾáni píšela màraˈ ḏa-ṭla-ḏa-xèta,ˈ xáṯi hóle xa-plìṭa,ˈ hóle ṣráxa màraˈ kut-bắye ʾáṯe páləš mə́nni ʾáṯe páləš mə̀nni.ˈ plíṭṭɛla ḏà,ˈ mə́ra ʾàna pálṭən.ˈ plìṭṭa,ˈ pláša plàšaˈ mbádla ʾaṣə̀rta.ˈ ʾáwwa là bắye máxe.ˈ ʾaṣə̀rtaˈ gu-gnɛ́ṯət yóma ʾáyya ríqtɛla wírtɛla gu-qàṣra.ˈ ʾáwwa mə́xyɛle sɛ́pe l-qḏálə d-o-súsa ṱ-íle ʾə́ṯya b-xáṣe díye,ˈ qṭìləlle.ˈ zílɛle kəs-màlka,ˈ mə́re málka ṱ-áwət basìmaˈ ʾáwwa mù-susət híwəlli ʾáti?ˈ mə́re mó bằyət?ˈ hálli xa-súsa spày.ˈ ʾána b-doqə́nna ʾánna bnàṯa.ˈ mə́re ma-yxàləf.ˈ mə́re xa-sùsaˈ ʾánna xamšà šə́nneˈ ʾáp-xa lɛ́le mə́ṣya mə́ṭya ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ ga-mə́re mo-sùsɛle?ˈ ʾɛ̀kɛle? mə́re hóle fə́llən dùkṯa,ˈ gu-fə̀llən bɛ́ṯa.ˈ mə́re hátta mɛxólta b-kàwe dárəx ʾəlle-díye.ˈ mə́re málka ṱ-áwət basìmaˈ də-hálli ʾàna ṱ-ásqən,ˈ xu-là ʾaxə́lli,ˈ xu-lɛ̀le ʾárya.ˈ la-ʾàrya,ˈ sùsɛle.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži mə̀reˈ ʾáwwa qḏìla.ˈ də-sùq!ˈ ʾáwwa yăḏèleˈ susət-gáne dìye.ˈ súsət gáne díye yăḏéle ʾɛ̀kɛle.ˈ mə́re míḏən ʾo-bɛ́ṯa ʾɛ̀kɛle.ˈ šádər xa-náša mə̀nni.ˈ šúdra xa-nàša,ˈ mə́re súq màxzile.ˈ ga-sàqa,ˈ mə́ṭye mə́re hòwileˈ ʾawwáʾha tằraˈ d-o-sùsɛle.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži sàqɛle.ˈ pṯáxəlle tắrət sùsa,ˈ tắrət gòma.ˈ súsa ṯáya wáḏa naṯyáṯe hàtxa,ˈ bắye maxèle.ˈ mə́xyəlla ʾíḏe hátxa gu-narṭómə sùsa.ˈ mə́re k̭òraˈ láš-it ḏàʾəlli?ˈ wắ-law ṱ-ín ʾanna-xámša šə́nne zíla b-dùnye,ˈ nə́mu lat-ḏàʾəlli?ˈ mára súsa kə̀lya,ˈ ḏíya máre dìyele.ˈ kə̀lyɛle súsa.ˈ ʾáwwa mtŭmə̀zəlle súse díye.ˈ kəmà-dana táma žáreˈ la-knìša,ˈ la-mtŭmə̀za,ˈ čù-məndi.ˈ də́ryəlle sárga xáṣe dìye.ˈ mbádla tíwa xáṣe díye ʾu-plìṭɛle.ˈ ʾɛ́-ga súsa kəmá-dana lɛ́le-xəzya šə̀mša,ˈ hóle pràxa.ˈ ṣə̀lyɛle,ˈ mə́xyɛle xa-fárra č̭ənnək̭ɛ́rə d-o-qàṣra.ˈ mə́re hèˈ hàyyoˈ tə́mməl ʾana-ʾə̀ṯyənˈ plíša mənnɛ̀xu.ˈ ʾáp-ʾədyo ho-ṯèli.ˈ lá ḏa-mənnɛ̀xu,ˈ lá pálṭa ḏa-ḏà.ˈ plùṭuˈ xàmməš,ˈ ʾə̀ššət,ˈ ʾə̀ssər,ˈ kùllɛxu plúṭu!ˈ báxtət gáne dìyeˈ ʾa-zùrtɛwa-ʾay.ˈ mə́ra ṭla-xaṯwàṯa,ˈ xáṯi ʾàna pálṭən.ˈ plíṭṭɛla ʾày.ˈ ʾɛ́-ga plášɛla gu-dìwən,ˈ ʾáy ʾu-gáwṛa dìya.ˈ ʾay-lɛ̀ḏa ṱ-íle gáwṛa dìya žáre.ˈ pláša mxàya,ˈ ʾay-mxàya,ˈ ʾaw-wáḏa mŭqàwăma,ˈ ʾay-mxàya,ˈ ʾaw-wáḏa mŭqàwăma,ˈ hàl gnɛ́ṯət yóma.ˈ gnɛ́ṯət yòmaˈ ríqtɛla bắya ṱ-óra gu-qàṣra.ˈ súse díye xɛlànɛle.ˈ dwìqəlle tắra.ˈ dwíqəlle tằra,ˈ mùrməlle kóse díye.ˈ mə́re ḥằšīm,ˈ nə́mu làt-ḏaʾəlli?ˈ lát-ḏaʾəlle sùsi?ˈ ʾá-dana qríṯɛla b-xaṯwáṯa dìya.ˈ mə́ra hàyyo!ˈ ʾáwwa ʾíle gàwṛi.ˈ ʾáwwa ʾíle gàwṛi.ˈ xéna xaṯwáṯa díya kúlla ṣlèla,ˈ kəmà-ṱ-ila!ˈ wéla xa-šadlaxàna.ˈ ʾáwər gu-d-o-qàṣraˈ wéla xlùla.ˈ mbádla qìmɛleˈ ʾo-yàla.ˈ plíṭɛle l-gáre ṣrìxɛle.ˈ mə́re kú-ṱ-ile bàṯriˈ mɛ́ṯe xa-kɛ́rtə qɛ̀saˈ máttu gu-tắrəd bɛ̀ṯi.ˈ kú-ṱ-ile bar-màlka,ˈ bàbi,ˈ máttu xa-kɛ́rtə qɛ́sa qam-tắrət màlka.ˈ mára kəmà-ṱ-ila moṯéla muttúla qɛ́saˈ … ḏìla módila qə́ṣṣətˈ … qam-tắrə dìye.ˈ mə́re de-mɛ́ṯole màlka!ˈ ʾáwwa wazíre kùllaˈ másqula láxxa màqḏula!ˈ kúlla qəm-mɛṯíla qaṭlìla.ˈ ʾáwwa šqílle báxte dìye,ˈ ʾu-xonăwáṯe dìye-wˈ ʾáwwa píšle málka šópət bábe dìye.ˈ šwiqáli táma ʾu-ṯéli làxxa.ˈ ʾíṯwa xa-màlkaˈ ʾíṯwale ʾárbi bnòne.ˈ brṓn-diye ʾo-zòraˈ ʾítwale ʾarbì šə́nne.ˈ zílle ṭla-babe-dìyeˈ mə́re ʾànaˈ ʾúmrile ʾarbì šə́nne.ˈ ʾína ʾánna xonăwàṯi,ˈ ʾarbì xonăwáṯi,ˈ kúššət magúrət xà,ˈ páyəš ʾúmri tmàni šə́nne.ˈ ʾána bắyən gàwrən.ˈ mə́re b-álaha bróni dū̀s-it.ˈ díya ʾána ṱ-àzənˈ xàzənˈ máčxən ʾarbí baxtàṯaˈ kúllɛxu magurə́nnɛxu b-ġḏàḏe.ˈ qyàmɛleˈ mbaqòrɛle,ˈ zála mára ʾiṯ-xa-nàšaˈ ʾítle ʾárbi bnàṯa.ˈ zálɛle l-xa-ʾáṯṛa xènaˈ ʾu-xzáyəlle ʾo-náša tfáqa bi-dìye.ˈ mára ma-yxàləf,ˈ t-yánna ʾárbi bnàṯiˈ ṭla-ʾárbi bnònux,ˈ ʾína ʾíman ṱ-aṯítu láxxa ṭalòbe,ˈ lá damxítu lá gu-kàrma,ˈ ʾu-lá gu-màrgaˈ ʾu-lá gu-qàṣra.ˈ ʾən-ʾánna mtăməmə̀tla,ˈ ʾána t-yànna-llux.ˈ brṓn-diye ʾo-zóra šə́mme díye Barzə̀kko.ˈ mə́re bróni Barzə̀kkoˈ ʾáti ṱ-àwətˈ qáʾəd d-áyya hə́nna ṱ-azìtu,ˈ ʾína hóle mìraˈ bába d-ánna bnàṯaˈ lá damxítu lá gu-màrga,ˈ ʾu-lá gu-kàrmaˈ ʾu-lá gu-qàṣra.ˈ mə́re ma-yxàləf bábi.ˈ qyámɛla zàla,ˈ zála mṭàyɛla,ˈ yóma gnàyɛle,ˈ dmáxɛla gu-xa-màrga,ˈ dawàrela,ˈ məndiyànela,ˈ ʾu-ʾíṯə ʾɛ́nət mìya táma.ˈ mə́ra bíš m-áyya dúkṯa ʾɛ̀ka xázəx?ˈ ʾáxni dámxəx làxxa.ˈ kúlla dmàxɛla.ˈ ʾo-yála pyášɛle naṭòra d-áni,ˈ ḥàrəs.ˈ xa-béna ʾo-xzàyɛle,ˈ ʾína xzáyɛle xa-nàša,ˈ xáʾa lwíša kòma,ˈ súse kòma,ˈ rúmxe múttəlla bēn-nā́ṯ sùstaˈ ʾap-áy kùmta.ˈ ṯáyɛle xḏárɛle č̭ənnək̭ɛ́rə d-an-nàše.ˈ mṭáya l-d-àwˈ mə́re Barzə̀kkoˈ ʾáti pálṭət gu-d-ànna,ˈ ʾánna kúlla díya ṱ-oḏə́nna qàlya,ˈ yáʿni qaṭlə̀nna.ˈ ʾɛ̀,ˈ xáṭər ʾalàha,ˈ lá-ʾoḏət ʾo-šùla,ˈ ʾáxxa l-tàmma.ˈ ʾánna har-xonăwàṯi,ˈ nàšile.ˈ mə́re márənnux plúṭ m-àxxa,ˈ gu-d-ànna.ˈ ʾìnaˈ kùlla b-qaṭlə́nna.ˈ ʾáti lítlux šúla mən-d-ànna.ˈ ʾáw ráqa zála l-ṭùra,ˈ ráqa sáqa báṯre dìye.ˈ ʾawwa-náša wárɛle gu-xa-gə̀ppa.ˈ ʾítle xonăwáṯa táma ʾu-yə̀mma.ˈ mə́re rzúgu ṣàləx.ˈ hambišàyela.ˈ ʾíṯwa ṭḷáṯi hambišáye gu-xa-gə̀ppa.ˈ mára rzúgu ṣàləx.ˈ hóla gu-màrga,ˈ hóla də́rye náše tàma.ˈ ṣàləx,ˈ qaṭlə̀xla,ˈ ʾaxlə̀xla.ˈ ṭla-ḏà-šeta maḷílən.ˈ Barzə́kko módi wìdle?ˈ hóle kə́lya l-tắrət gə̀ppa.ˈ ʾánna plàṭɛla.ˈ kúṱ-ile plàṭaˈ xa-sɛ́pa gu-káse qámət gə̀ppa.ˈ yə́mma d-an-hambišàyeˈ márɛla ṭla-brṓn d-o-zòraˈ bròni,ˈ ʾáp-ʾana mɛṯə́tli xá … ʾáṭmət súsa ṱ-àxlən.ˈ bálki ʾánna xonăwáṯux là mɛṯíli.ˈ plàṭɛle,ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw qṭàləlle.ˈ wárɛle Barzə́kko ṭáləb d-ày,ˈ yə́mmət hambišàye.ˈ mə́re ʾànaˈ mɛṯə́nnəx ʾáṭməd xzùra.ˈ ʾáp-ʾay qṭàləlla.ˈ ʾo-ṣlàyɛle.ˈ ʾítwale xulàma.ˈ súse díye mtaslóməlle ṭla-xulàma.ˈ wára gu-čádre dìye,ˈ dmáxa hal-mbàdla.ˈ mbàdla,ˈ qyàmɛla,ˈ kúlla bắyi ṱ-àzi,ˈ ʾáwwɛle dmìxa Barzə́kko.ˈ mára də-mărəšúle Barzə̀kko!ˈ hal-ʾíma dàməx?ˈ măróšəlle m-tàmaˈ b-yòma,ˈ qyáma zàla.ˈ zála, zàla,ˈ mṭáya,ˈ mṭáya kàrma.ˈ xa-kàrmɛleˈ rába gòṛa.ˈ ʾə̀nwe ʾíṯ gáwe,ˈ ʾɛnáṯə mìya,ˈ məndiyàne,ˈ kùll-xa mə́ndi.ˈ mṭáyɛle xa-náša xèna.ˈ ʾánna kúlla dmàxɛla.ˈ Barzə́kko pyáša ḥàrəs-ile.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle xá-naša xèna,ˈ lwíša lwíšta smòqta,ˈ súsa smòqa,ˈ rúmxa smòqta.ˈ b-lɛ́le rúmxe díye hóla mxáya kizə̀kke,ˈ ma-ṱ-íle ʾo-náša rába xɛlàna.ˈ plúṭ m-d-ànnaˈ ʾáti šə́mmux zìlɛle.ˈ pìšɛleˈ kízle mparpóle bìye:ˈ nàša,ˈ ʾánna xonăwàṯila,ˈ ʾáxxa l-tàmma.ˈ mára màrənnuxˈ ʾáti grùš gánuxˈ ʾánna dìyaˈ kúlla parqə̀nna.ˈ mára ʾáp-ʾaw hóle plìša.ˈ ʾáw-w ʾó-naša plàša,ˈ plàša,ˈ plàšaˈ hál gu-mbadlàṯa.ˈ gu-mbadláṯa mxɛ́ṯət yóma ʾó-naša tlìqɛle.ˈ rxìšɛleˈ ʾo-Barzə́kko zíla dmìxa.ˈ dart-yóma qímela zìleˈ ʾáp-ʾaw qúnəx ṭḷáṯa mə́ṭye l-qàṣra.ˈ mə́ṭyela l-qàṣra,ˈ mə́re b-álaha mìrɛle xəmyáni lá damxítu láxxa tămáha.ˈ ʾánna xonăwáṯe ʾo-gòṛaˈ ʾáwwa kàze, Barzə́kkoˈ yába là dámxəx gu-d-áwwa qáṣra.ˈ dámxəx l-wằdər.ˈ xəmyáni hàtxɛle míra.ˈ mə́ra gu-márga-w kɛ́rma mù xzélux ta-t-xázət láxxa?ˈ ʾáxni làxxa dámxəx.ˈ mə́re mà-yxaləfˈ dmúxu!ˈ dmíxela tàma.ˈ ʾánna kúlla dmìxelaˈ ʾáwwa qíma hàrəs-ile.ˈ gu-mbádla ʾə́ṯyɛle xàˈ xá, xá-susa xwàra,ˈ rúmxe xwɛ̀rta,ˈ kúlla lwíšte xwɛ̀rta.ˈ ʾə́ṯya mə̀reˈ Barzə́kko ʾáti šə̀mmuxˈ šə́myəx b-šămáṯə šə̀mmux.ˈ plúṭ mən-d-áwwa qàṣra,ˈ ʾáwwa ṱ-oḏə́nne čòl.ˈ kízle ʾáxxa-w tàmma,ˈ mparpóle bìye,ˈ ʾáwwa là.ˈ mxáyɛle rúmxe ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ mára mu-mxélux gu-xàṣi?ˈ mə́re čù-məndi,ˈ tabzìya qítle gu-xáṣux.ˈ mxáya sɛ́pa gu-rèše,ˈ čù-məndi.ˈ káze b-čù-ʾurxa lɛ́le mṣáya bíye.ˈ xárṯa mə́re xzí ṱ-amrə̀nnux.ˈ ṭlúb măṭáləb dìyux.ˈ módi bằyətˈ ʾána ṱ-oḏə̀nnux.ˈ ʾàxčiˈ šoqə̀tlənˈ ʾàxniˈ ṱ-ázəx ʾay-wajəbúṯa mkamlə̀xla.ˈ mə́re măṭáləb dìyiˈ ṱ-ázət mɛṯə́tli Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàre.ˈ mɛ́ṯətla ṱ-óya báxta ṭlàli,ˈ šoqə̀nnuxˈ ṱ-azìtu.ˈ ʾə̀llaˈ gắrəg mqàwlətˈ ʾən-làˈ kùllɛxu qaṭlənnɛ́xu.ˈ mə́re wadùṯa,ˈ šúqlən ṱ-ázəx ṱ-àṯəx láxxa,ˈ m-gu-d-àwwa qáṣraˈ ʾána l-bɛ́ṯa là-ʾazən,ˈ mɛṯə́nna Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàr-əllux.ˈ xa-bráta šə̀mmaˈ Čəlkằze,ˈ ʾárbi ṣoṣiyàṯa,ˈ kùrdəṯ-ila.ˈ ʾu-Bắdal Sahàre,ˈ yaʿni kə́xwət gu-mbadlàṯa.ˈ šə́mma d-ɛ̀-brata,ˈ ma-ṱ-íla šapìrta.ˈ zálɛle kəs-d-o-xəmyáne dìye.ˈ ʾamə̀rreˈ šŭrūṭ-díyi mkumlìlux?ˈ mkumlìlɛxu?ˈ mə́re hè!ˈ mə́re làˈ lètun mkúmləlla.ˈ mə́re hótu dmíxe gu-màrga.ˈ ʾu-mòditu xə́zye?ˈ ʾà,ˈ paxàlta.ˈ ʾán naṯyáṯə d-àn hambišáyeˈ nə̀šyənna.ˈ prìməlla-wˈ də́ryəlla gu-xúrje dìye.ˈ mə́re dmíxetu gu-kàrmaˈ mòditu xə́zye?ˈ xóna ʾo-góṛa mə́re čú-məndi lax-xə̀zye.ˈ w-an-xonăwáṯa xéne mə́ra čú-məndi lax-xə̀zye.ˈ mə́re bas-lè-y-yənna bnáṯi-llɛxu.ˈ ʾo-xóna zóra ʾə́ṯyɛle mə́re hè,ˈ dū̀s-it.ˈ ʾə́ṯyəx də́ryəx gu-màrga.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle xá-naša ṭàlbən.ˈ zílən mpurə̀pla bíyeˈ lɛ̀le wíya.ˈ ríqa síqa l-ṭùra.ˈ síqən bàṯre.ˈ gu-xa-gə́ppa hambišàye-wawa.ˈ plìṭela.ˈ kúṱ-ile plìṭaˈ qṭìlənəlle.ˈ ha-t-yəmméy wírən ṭàlbaˈ qṭìlənna,ˈ ʾánna naṯyaṯèy.ˈ mrúpyəlla qáme dìye.ˈ mə́re dū̀s-it.ˈ ʾáyya ḏà.ˈ yómə tré ʾɛ̀kɛtu dmíxe?ˈ mə́re dmíxəx gu-kàrma.ˈ mə́re ṭla-d-an-xonăwáṯe dìyeˈ mòditu xə́zye?ˈ mə́ra čù-məndi lax-xə̀zye.ˈ ʾáwwa mə́re dáx xə̀zyəx!ˈ mə́re ʾə́ṯyɛle xa-nàšaˈ xa-súsa smòqa,ˈ kúlle lwíša smòqa,ˈ wíyəx pláša m-ʾaṣə́rta hal-gu-mbadlàṯa.ˈ lan-mə́ṣya bíye dìye.ˈ gu-mbàdlaˈ ríqa zìlɛle.ˈ mxɛ́ṯət šə́mša tlìqɛle.ˈ mə́re ʾáp-ʾay dū̀s-it.ˈ mə́re gu-qàṣra móditu xə̀zye?ˈ mə́re gu-qáṣra ʾə́ṯyɛle xà,ˈ dewə̀rriš-ile,ˈ làn-ḏaʾa mo-qaríwale,ˈ dewə̀rriš.ˈ màraˈ kízən mpurə́plən bíye ta-šawə̀qlən,ˈ lɛ̀le zíla.ˈ mára maxə́nwale sɛ́pa gu-xàṣe.ˈ yáha mə́re mù-mxelux gu-xáṣi.ˈ tabzìya qítla bíyux.ˈ maxə́nwale rúmxi ʾə́lle dìyeˈ mù-qítle bíyi?ˈ kút-dana xa-hajə̀tta.ˈ mára b-əlʾaxī̀rˈ múrri măṭáləb díyux mòdila.ˈ ʾána ṱ-oḏə̀nna-llux.ˈ mə́re măṭáləb díyi mə́re ʾázət mɛṯə́tla Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàre.ˈ hóla p-ápe šawwà yamáṯa.ˈ mɛṯə̀tta-lli,ˈ šoqə́nnux ṱ-àzət.ˈ ʾən-là,ˈ là-šoqən ṱ-azítu.ˈ mə́re dū̀s-it.ˈ qímɛle híwəlla bnáṯe dìyeˈ ṭla-d-an-nàše,ˈ bəd-xáṭər d-ó-xona zòra.ˈ zílɛle mə́ṭyɛle l-kɛ́rma ʾu-məndiyàneˈ ʾu-l-qàṣra.ˈ ʾo-qáṣra ʾo-náša hàdəx-ile wíḏəlle,ˈ ʾəṣrà-gaye béna qamáya.ˈ xa-qúnəx wíḏəlle tàza,ˈ kanàpe-wˈ xalìye-wˈ mɛxòlta,ˈ kùl-xa mə́ndi.ˈ ʾó-xona zóra ʾámər ṭla-xonăwáṯa d-an-xèneˈ ʾáyya báxti nàblulaˈ mənnɛ̀xu.ˈ ʾána m-axxa-húdxa lɛ̀-y-azən.ˈ ʾítli šùla.ˈ ʾáni zìlela.ˈ mə́ṭye l-bɛṯàyˈ wíḏela xlùla.ˈ ʾu-čídla nàše,ˈ dùnye qəm-čɛdíla.ˈ wídla xa-ḥàfla,ˈ xa-xlùlaˈ ràba xɛlána.ˈ ʾo-xóna zóra lìṯ.ˈ xóna zóra píšle gu-qàṣra,ˈ kəs-d-o-nàša.ˈ mə́re háyyo mùrriˈ ʾay-mòdi,ˈ ʾáyya Čəlkắze Bắdal Saháre mòdila-wˈ ʾɛ̀kɛla.ˈ mə́re ʾàyyaˈ ṱ-àzətˈ máṭət l-yáma qamɛ̀ṯa,ˈ ḏa-yàma.ˈ ʾáy hóla p-ápe šawwà yamáṯa.ˈ ʾítla šawwà xonăwáṯa.ˈ ʾítla xa-qáṣra pàtəl.ˈ kút yaṣílət qàṣraˈ ʾíṯ ḏa-yàwna gáwe díye,ˈ yàwna.ˈ màraˈ ʾánna šáwwa yamáṯa pɛḏə̀tla,ˈ máṭət l-ò-qaṣra.ˈ ʾo-qáṣra hóle pṯàla,ˈ qə́šta-w gèraˈ kut-yáwna maxə̀tla.ˈ máxətla yàwna,ˈ ʾaw-yaṣíla xéna xaḏə̀r-əllux.ˈ mára há-t ʾánna šáwwa yawnáṯa qaṭlə̀tla,ˈ mára qáṣra kàle.ˈ b-kàle,ˈ xárṯa ʾàsqət,ˈ ʾən-màṣət.ˈ ʾítla šawwà xonăwáṯa.ˈ ʾən-máṣət šaqlə́tla Čəlkằze,ˈ mɛṯə́tla làxxaˈ ʾu-ʾáti sàxi,ˈ xēr-ʿala-xḕr.ˈ ʾu-ʾən-là máṣət,ˈ ʾáni qaṭlìlux.ˈ zḕnˈ mə̀reˈ ʾánna šáwwa yamàṯaˈ ʾana mù pɛḏə́nna?ˈ lítli ṭayyàra,ˈ hɛlikòptərˈ dax-ṱ-íla dìya.ˈ mə́re hàˈ ʾáp-ʾay dū̀s-it.ˈ mə́re ṱ-àzətˈ l-yáma qamɛ̀ṯa,ˈ ʾàzət,ˈ ʾíṯgena xa-ṭùra.ˈ trè ṭuránela,ˈ wàdilaˈ bēl-ṭúra l-ṭùra.ˈ ṣálət xázət xa-képa l-márzət yàma.ˈ dɛ́rət ʾíḏux xo-d-ò-kepa,ˈ b-xázət xá ləxxàwət súsa,ˈ mattíle gu-púmmət sùsa,ˈ lìṯ.ˈ mára zadə́tle hátxa gu-yàma.ˈ pálṭa sústət yamàṯa.ˈ ʾay-pàrxa.ˈ màraˈ ʾaw-ləxxáwa ṱ-áṯe púmma dìya.ˈ ṱ-áttət xáṣa dìya.ˈ mára maqḏánnux gu-šə́mšət šmàyya.ˈ ʾáti ʾámrət ṣálən xo-kàsəx.ˈ mə́ra maṣə́lyannux šə́ttət yamàṯa,ˈ ʾáti ʾámrət ṱ-áttən xàṣəx.ˈ mə́re hát ʾóḏa wadúṯa l-ʾiṯàṯux,ˈ wadúṯa ṭḷá gàye.ˈ mára ʾà-danaˈ ʾáyya nablàlux,ˈ mapərxálux šawwà yamáṯa,ˈ máṭət l-d-o-qàṣra.ˈ máṭət l-d-ò-qaṣra,ˈ háwət hə́šyər ʾína ʾáyya sústa là marpə́tla.ˈ mə́re ʾína mò ṱ-óḏen bíya?ˈ mə́re ʾasṛə̀tla xa-dúkṯa,ˈ t-la-šarṭa-w ʾàza.ˈ mə́re ma-yxàləf.ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw qyàmɛleˈ táwa xáṣət súse dìye-wˈ ṣlàya.ˈ ṣlàya,ˈ ṣlàyaˈ ʾax-ṱ-íle pqìḏəlle.ˈ ʾáwwa t-wéwa ṣláya l-márzət xa-yàma,ˈ ʾax-ṱ-íle pqìḏəlle.ˈ xzéle xa-képa rába gòṛa.ˈ ʾáwəḏ ʾíḏe xo-d-ò képa,ˈ ʾína xa-ləxxáwət sùsta.ˈ daréle gu-yáma hə̀šyər.ˈ ʾá sustə-yamáṯa plìṭṭɛla.ˈ tíwɛle xáṣə dìya.ˈ mə́ra maqḏánnux qam-šmàyya,ˈ m-núrə šmàyya,ˈ šə̀mša.ˈ mə́re ṣálən xo-kàsəx.ˈ mə́ra maṣlánnux gu-ʾúmqət yamàṯaˈ mə́re ṱ-áttən xàṣəx.ˈ de-hádəx dèˈ ha-ṱ-íla wíḏta tóba l-iṯáṯe dìye.ˈ mə́ra mòdi bắyət?ˈ mə́re nábəlli l-qáṣrət Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàre.ˈ mára prìxtɛla,ˈ nubáltəlle l-d-ɛ̀-dukṯa.ˈ xzíṯəlle xa-qàṣraˈ ʾína pṯàla,ˈ ʾax-t-wéwa mìra.ˈ šawwà yaṣíle bíye díye.ˈ kut-yaṣìlaˈ ḏa-yáwna tàma.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži ʾíṯwale qə́šta-w géra d-ɛ̀-ga,ˈ lìṯ?ˈ də́ryəlla xá čə́rək ʾu-mə̀xyəlla.ˈ ʾap-ʾa-xéta ṯìṯa.ˈ qáṣra kə̀lya.ˈ ʾáyya Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàreˈ yăḏàwaˈ ʾáwwa hóle ṯàya.ˈ xonăwáṯa díya mšudártəlla l-ṭúra l-ṣɛ̀da,ˈ xúšu wúḏu ṣɛ̀da!ˈ sab-ʾáp-ʾay bắya t-goràwa,ˈ žàre.ˈ ʾáwwa síqa ṭálba dìyaˈ mə́ra jálde jàlde,ˈ xonăwáṯi t-la-maṭìlux.ˈ ʾáp-ʾay ṯíṯɛla mə̀nneˈ ʾɛ̀ka?ˈ ʾína súste díye hàzərˈ t-yamàṯa.ˈ tíwa xāṣ-sùsta,ˈ ʾu-ʾáy múttəlla báṯre dìyeˈ ʾu-réša-reša yamàṯa.ˈ xéna màraˈ kèpe mə́ra ṭla-xonăwáṯa núbləlla Čəlkắze.ˈ ʾilàne mára núbləlla Čəlkắze,ˈ ṭla-xonăwáṯa dìya.ˈ ʾáni rìqe,ˈ ʾə́ṯye l-bɛ̀ṯa,ˈ xə́zye ʾína qáṣra sapìqa.ˈ mátti bála gu-yàma,ˈ ʾìnaˈ ʾa-sústət yamàṯaˈ nabòləllaˈ Čəlkằze.ˈ mə́ra si-nublàlux.ˈ háwya halā̀l ṭlálux.ˈ b-xɛ́lət gànux nublálux.ˈ ʾə́ṯyela hìwəllaˈ ʾáy mə́ra lɛ̀kət nabóləlli?ˈ mə́re ʾána làn ṭláli nabóləlləx.ˈ nabóləlləx ṭla-d-áwwa dewə̀rrəš.ˈ mə́ra ḥărā́m-ile gáwṛa ʾə̀lliˈ šúq mən-dìyux.ˈ mə́ra ḥarā́m-ile gáwṛa ṭlàliˈ šúq mən-dìyux.ˈ mə́re xéna hàtxɛla qə́ṣṣət.ˈ mə́ra ʾáti nàbəlli táma.ˈ ʾána ṱ-óḏən xa-xə̀ṭṭa.ˈ xàzəxˈ qaṭlə̀xle ʾáwwa náša.ˈ mo-ṱ-òḏəx?ˈ qaṭlə̀xle.ˈ mə́re ʾána mjùrbən,ˈ kɛ́zən mxàya.ˈ mxéli rúmxa gu-rèšeˈ čú-məndi la-wìdla.ˈ mxéli sɛ́pa ʾə̀lle,ˈ čú-məndi la-wìdla.ˈ mə́ra šùqle-ʾəlli.ˈ ʾàna mtagəbránne.ˈ zála nabòle,ˈ zílla mṭèlaˈ l-qàṣra.ˈ ʾo-dewə́rrəš plíṭɛle l-ṣɛ̀da.ˈ ʾə̀ṯyɛle,ˈ ḏa-ʾilànaˈ hóla rš-rúše dìyeˈ mḷíṯɛla mən-rə́jbət ʾằra,ˈ dèwela,ˈ tèlela,ˈ harnùwela.ˈ har-qṭíla də́rya múṯya l-bɛ̀ṯa.ˈ xa-ʿafrī̀t-wewa.ˈ xḏèle bíya díya,ˈ qəm-dawə́qle qádra dìyaˈ xá-mdit ʾajəbùṯa.ˈ píšla trè-yome táma.ˈ ʾáw-w bàxta,ˈ Čəlkằzeˈ ʾo-yàla,ˈ wídla xàbra-xaˈ mə́ra là-ʾazətˈ šoqə́tli yàla.ˈ mə́ra ʾána xázyən ʾáwwa xɛ́le díye ʾɛ̀kɛle.ˈ dàxi máṣəx bíye díye,ˈ ta-t-pàrqəx mə́nne díye.ˈ ʾu-ʾána ṱ-àṯyən mə́nnux.ˈ de-píšla ʾáp-ʾay báxtə d-àwwa dewə̀rrəš.ˈ kút-yum ʾáṯya xa-hàjətta daryáwa bíye díyeˈ ʾáti xɛ́lux ʾɛ̀kɛle?ˈ róxux ʾɛ̀kɛla-w?ˈ ʾu-dáx-it xyàʾa?ˈ mìḏən mó,ˈ bàxtɛla dé!ˈ dè,ˈ dè,ˈ xàrṯaˈ kút-yum y-amə̀rwaˈ xà-yoma.ˈ xá-yoma mə̀reˈ xɛ́li hóla gu-d-áyya kanòšta.ˈ qəm-šaqlàla kanóšta,ˈ daryála gu-nùra.ˈ čú-məndi lìṯ.ˈ ʾay-mə́ra làˈ gxìklux bíyi.ˈ lɛ̀le xɛ́lux gu-d-áy kanóšta.ˈ dárt-yoma ṯèleˈ mə́re ʾána xɛ́li hóle gu-xa-qɛ́sa xèna.ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw dárt-yoma ʾaw-qɛ́sa šqìlla,ˈ muqìdla,ˈ čù-məndi.ˈ mə́ra xzí ṱ-amrànnux.ˈ ʾáti hot-gkàxa bíyi.ˈ lítlux ṯə́qa bìyi.ˈ ʾána bàxtux-iwən.ˈ ʾən-lá galə̀tliˈ róxux gu-mòdilaˈ ʾu-dáx-it xyàʾa,ˈ ʾána xà-yoma kə́slux la-pɛ́šən.ˈ mə́re xzá ṱ-amrə̀nnəx.ˈ róxi hóla gu-táwrət wàla.ˈ gu-ṣádre dìyeˈ ʾíṯ ḏá qoṱìya.ˈ gu-d-ó qoṱíya ʾíla xa-ṣə̀pra,ˈ mə́re ʾá-ṣəpra ʾíla ròxi,ˈ ʾən-lá qaṭlíle ʾo-táwrət wàla,ˈ šaqlíle ʾo-ṣə̀pra.ˈ kút-dana ʾa-ṣə́pra mìtle,ˈ ʾɛ́-ga ʾana-mɛ̀ṯən.ˈ mə́re ʾó tawrət-wála-ži là máyəṯ,ˈ ʾə́lla gríša ṭḷá gérət qə́šta-w gèra,ˈ mən-sadánəd Mə̀ṣr.ˈ ṭḷá gére gríše mən-d-àw,ˈ b-d-áw yálla màyəṯ.ˈ ʾáwwa zìlɛle.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle ʾo-yálət băyàwale.ˈ mə́re ʾáh qə́ṣṣət mòdila.ˈ mára b-álaha hā́l-u qə́ṣṣət hàtxɛla.ˈ mára ʾáwwa sadánət Mə́ṣr-ži lá pằqe.ˈ mə́re ʾàna păqə́nne.ˈ mə́ra dàxi?ˈ pṯíltəlle xá mən-káwsa dìya,ˈ mə́ra ʾázət ṭḷà yománeˈ ha-t-dóqət šárṭ mən-d-òˈ náša.ˈ múrre ʾána pálxən rəš-d-ò sadánaˈ hat-pằqe.ˈ ʾən-pằqe,ˈ gáršətli ṭḷá-gere-w qə̀šta mə́nne díye.ˈ ʾən-là mpŭqéli,ˈ ʾána pálxən b-réše díye bălā̀š.ˈ mə́ra kút-yum pálxət b-réše mbádla hal-ʾaṣə̀rta.ˈ ʾáwwa bə́ska patlə́tle hàtxa.ˈ lítlux šùla,ˈ ʾázət dàmxət.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži zìlaˈ mbùqrɛle,ˈ tfìqɛle rəš-d-ó sadánə Mə̀ṣr.ˈ wíḏɛle mqàwăla mə́nne díye.ˈ mə́re ʾána rəš-d-áwwa bălā̀š.ˈ ʾən-mpŭqèliˈ garšə́tli ṭḷa-gére mə́nne dìye.ˈ ʾu-ʾən-là mpŭqéli,ˈ ʾána pálxən b-réše bălā̀š.ˈ mə́re nàšaˈ zlámət gànuxˈ ʾáwwa mằni mpăqéle?ˈ mə́re b-álaha hàtxa.ˈ ʾən-păqə̀nne,ˈ t-yátli ṭḷa-gère-w-qəšta.ˈ ʾən-là,ˈ čù-məndi.ˈ mə́re ma-yxàləf.ˈ plùx.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži páləx kút-yum mbádla hal-ʾaṣə̀rta.ˈ ʾaṣə́rta ʾo-bə́ska t-Čəlkằzeˈ maxèwa,ˈ šayə́pwale gu-d-ò sadána,ˈ ʾu-y-azə̀lwa.ˈ xà-yoma,ˈ yómə trè,ˈ yómə ṭḷàṯa,ˈ gu-mbadlàṯa,ˈ gu-b-lɛ̀le,ˈ šmíya xa-pàmma!ˈ pqìle.ˈ ʾáwwa zìla,ˈ qíma mbádla zíla ʾína ʾo-pə̀qya.ˈ ʾɛ́-ga ʾó-mara d-o-sadánə Mə́ṣr qímɛle wíḏɛle ṭḷa-gére mən-d-ó sadánə Mə̀ṣr.ˈ qímɛle díṛɛle zìla.ˈ ʾó dewə̀rrəš b-yóma y-azə́lwa l-ṭùra,ˈ b-lɛ̀le y-aṯéwa.ˈ ʾáw b-yóma zíla kəs-d-a-Čəlkằze.ˈ mə́re ṯéli hó ʾan-ṭḷá gerə-qə̀šta.ˈ mə́ra xzì.ˈ ʾáwwa ṭúra ʾíṯgena ḏa-ʾɛ́nət míya tàma.ˈ ʾáwwa táwrət wàlaˈ yomíyya xá-bena ṣále š-d-ɛ-ʾɛ́nət mìyaˈ šáte mìya.ˈ ʾázət máttət xa-ṭaṭìya.ˈ náblət xáčča qìra.ˈ mə́ra ʾáyya mattə́tla gu-mìya,ˈ ʾa-qìraˈ darə́tla b-rèša.ˈ ʾan-míya kàtpi.ˈ là-palṭi míya.ˈ dárət xáčča xàmra,ˈ xáčča bìš hódəx mənna-díya,ˈ xàmra.ˈ mára ʾáwwa táwra ṱ-áṯe xáze míya lìṯgena,ˈ mayə̀xle ríxə d-o-xámraˈ lè-y-šate.ˈ ṱ-ázəl ṭúra xá-ga xéta ṱ-àṯe.ˈ páyəš májbur béna xaráya šàte,ˈ mən-d-ó-xamra b-ràwe.ˈ ṱ-áṯe l-dmàxa.ˈ mára ʾɛ̀-gaˈ maxə́tla ʾánna qə́šta-w gére ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ qaṭlə̀tle,ˈ màyəṯ.ˈ parmə̀tle,ˈ paṯxə́tle ṣádre dìye.ˈ ʾa-qoṱìya,ˈ xa-qotíya ʾax-d-àwwɛle,ˈ mə̀raˈ m-gu-ṣádre dìyeˈ šaqlə̀tleˈ mɛṯə́tle ṭlàli.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži zàlɛle,ˈ nabòləllaˈ xámra mə́nna dìya,ˈ l-d-à-dukṯa.ˈ xzàyəlla ʾɛ́na.ˈ mdabòqəllaˈ mattóye qìra,ˈ ṭaṭíya-w qìra.ˈ míya ktàpɛla.ˈ dráyɛle biš-hódəx mə́nna díya xáčča xàmra.ˈ ʾáw mattóyəlla gáne dìye.ˈ hóle xpírəlla xa-dùkṯaˈ mṭašòyəlla.ˈ mṭùšyəlla.ˈ xa-béna ʾə́ṯyɛle ʾaw-táwrət wàlaˈ ṭla-šáte mìya.ˈ míya lɛ́le xə̀zya.ˈ zìlɛleˈ míxɛle ʾína ríxət xàmra.ˈ lɛ̀le šə́tya mə́nna.ˈ zíla xá-ga xéta l-ṭùra.ˈ ṣìya-wewa,ˈ xà-ga xéta ṯéle,ˈ xà-ga xéta lɛ́le šə́tya.ˈ béna ṭḷá ṯéle štèle.ˈ štèle,ˈ guyžə̀nne,ˈ rwèle.ˈ ʾó-naša hóle tíwa gu-čằpər táma.ˈ maxéle ṭḷá qə́šta-w géra ʾə́lle dìyeˈ npìlɛle.ˈ zíla prìməlle,ˈ pṯìxa ṣádre díye.ˈ ʾína ḏá qotíya hátxa zòra.ˈ šqìləlla,ˈ mùsqəlla,ˈ híwəlla ṭla-Čəlkằze,ˈ ṭla-d-a-báxtə t-wéwa mùṯyəlla.ˈ mə́re Čəlkằzeˈ hòla.ˈ mə́ra háwət basíma ràba.ˈ ʾo-dewə̀rrəšˈ ʾímə ṱ-ile-mə́xyəlle táwrət wàlaˈ ṛìšɛleˈ mgunə̀gzɛle.ˈ hàtxɛwa,ˈ ʾax-mə̀rya.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle l-bɛ́ṯa ʾína mə̀rya.ˈ mə́ra ʾa-mà-lux?ˈ mə́re b-àlaha,ˈ làn-ḏaʾa,ˈ ʾáwwa táwrət wála lán-ḏaʾa módi ʾə́ṯya bìye,ˈ npílɛle b-ʾisàra,ˈ ʾawwa xà-məndile qíṯa bíye.ˈ lán-ḏaʾa módila qə̀ṣṣət.ˈ díya hon-rába mə̀rya.ˈ mə́re čù-ga hátxa lan-mə́rya.ˈ də́ryəlla xa-šwìṯaˈ dmìxɛle.ˈ ʾay-ži pṯíxtəlle ʾo-sandùqaˈ mə́ra hòleˈ čučə̀kka.ˈ mára dwìqtəlleˈ ʾoḏále rúše hàtxa,ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw nayə̀dwa rúše díye.ˈ nčíltəlle rèše-wˈ rùše-wˈ kúlla rupɛ̀ṯəlla.ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw mìtwaleˈ har-a-dàna.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle ʾo-gàwṛa díya,ˈ ʾo-t-wéwa mùṯyəlla.ˈ muxbə̀rtəlle,ˈ ʾə̀ṯyɛleˈ l-bɛ̀ṯa.ˈ šqìləlla.ˈ píšɛle táma kəmà-dana.ˈ šqíləlla ʾu-zíla l-bɛ̀ṯa.ˈ zíla l-bɛ́ṯət bàbe díye.ˈ bábe díye màlkɛle.ˈ hóle xa-pláša gu-d-a-màṯa,ˈ ʾajəbùṯa.ˈ ʾáwwa báxte díye múttəlla gu-ḏa-dùkṯa.ˈ ʾíṯwa xa-bɛ̀ṯa.ˈ zílɛle mə́re mòdila qə́ṣṣət?ˈ mòdila qə́ṣṣət?ˈ mə́ra b-àlaha,ˈ ʾáwwa málka ʾítwale xá bròna.ˈ báxte díye mùṯyəlla.ˈ ʾímə ṱ-íla zála múṯyəlla ʾarbí baxtàṯa,ˈ múṯyəlla báxte dìye.ˈ ʾaw-málka bắye kálṯe dìye,ˈ báxtət bróne dìye.ˈ ʾu-báxtət brōn-díye là-qabla.ˈ ʾan-ʾárbi baxtáṯa kúlla xaṯwàṯɛla,ˈ dárqūl d-a-məndìla.ˈ ʾu-málka hóle mhuyə̀ra,ˈ mára ʾə̀lla gắrəg ʾáyya bráta gorə́nna.ˈ mšadóre náše l-d-ó qàṣra.ˈ kút-yum plàšɛlaˈ ta-t-doqíla ʾa-bràta,ˈ doqíla ʾa-bràtaˈ mɛṯɛ́la ta-t-gáwra màlka,ˈ bàbe díye.ˈ bábə díye bắye gàwra.ˈ bábe díye màlkɛwa.ˈ mára ʾáp-ʾaw qímɛle zìlɛle,ˈ píšɛle xuláma t-màlka.ˈ mšoxə̀lpəlla júlle díye. pìšɛleˈ xolámət màlka,ˈ maštóye susăwáṯa mìya.ˈ kút-yum ʾánna palṭíwa plàša.ˈ mòdila qə́ṣṣət?ˈ mə́re l-d-o-qáṣra t-wɛ́wa ʾárbi bnáṯa gáwe dìye,ˈ xaṯwáṯa dìya.ˈ mə́re mòdila gu-d-áwwa qáṣra?ˈ mə́re b-àlahaˈ ʾíṯgena ʾarbí bnàṯa,ˈ kaláṯət màlka,ˈ ḏá-mənna zùrta,ˈ gáwṛa díya zíla b-dùnye,ˈ bắye málka gawə̀rra.ˈ ʾu-ʾánna hóla ʾàṣi ʾə́lle díye.ˈ mə́re ga-béna ʾánna kúlla ṱ-íla zála lɛ́la mṣáya b-an-ʾárbi bnàṯa?ˈ kút-yum zála hàtxaˈ jḗš m-ánna ʾatwánə xáṣə susăwàṯa,ˈ swarìyye.ˈ lɛ́la mṣáya b-an-ʾárbi bnàṯa?ˈ ʾàna ṱ-ázən mɛṯə́nna.ˈ mṭáyɛle xábra l-màlka.ˈ mṭáyɛle xábra l-màlkaˈ mə́re málka ṱ-áwət basìma,ˈ ʾáwwa saqáwa d-ánna susăwàṯa,ˈ mə́re ʾàna ṱ-ázən šaqlə́nna-ana.ˈ mə́re mšádrule ṱ-àṯe.ˈ zíla mə́re mòdi bắyət?ˈ málka ṱ-áwe basìma,ˈ kùllaˈ ʾárbi bnàṯɛla láxxa,ˈ baxtàṯɛla,ˈ dáx létu mṣáya bìya?ˈ ʾána ṱ-àzən.ˈ hállule xa-sùsa.ˈ tə́mməl mbádla ʾàzəl.ˈ šqála dárt-yoma xà-susaˈ táwa xáṣe díye zàlaˈ hèˈ ʾána fə̀llən,ˈ hàyyo,ˈ háyyo plùṭu.ˈ kut-bắye páləš mə́nni páləš mə̀nni.ˈ ʾáni píšela màraˈ ḏa-ṭla-ḏa-xèta,ˈ xáṯi hóle xa-plìṭa,ˈ hóle ṣráxa màraˈ kut-bắye ʾáṯe páləš mə́nni ʾáṯe páləš mə̀nni.ˈ plíṭṭɛla ḏà,ˈ mə́ra ʾàna pálṭən.ˈ plìṭṭa,ˈ pláša plàšaˈ mbádla ʾaṣə̀rta.ˈ ʾáwwa là bắye máxe.ˈ ʾaṣə̀rtaˈ gu-gnɛ́ṯət yóma ʾáyya ríqtɛla wírtɛla gu-qàṣra.ˈ ʾáwwa mə́xyɛle sɛ́pe l-qḏálə d-o-súsa ṱ-íle ʾə́ṯya b-xáṣe díye,ˈ qṭìləlle.ˈ zílɛle kəs-màlka,ˈ mə́re málka ṱ-áwət basìmaˈ ʾáwwa mù-susət híwəlli ʾáti?ˈ mə́re mó bằyət?ˈ hálli xa-súsa spày.ˈ ʾána b-doqə́nna ʾánna bnàṯa.ˈ mə́re ma-yxàləf.ˈ mə́re xa-sùsaˈ ʾánna xamšà šə́nneˈ ʾáp-xa lɛ́le mə́ṣya mə́ṭya ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ ga-mə́re mo-sùsɛle?ˈ ʾɛ̀kɛle? mə́re hóle fə́llən dùkṯa,ˈ gu-fə̀llən bɛ́ṯa.ˈ mə́re hátta mɛxólta b-kàwe dárəx ʾəlle-díye.ˈ mə́re málka ṱ-áwət basìmaˈ də-hálli ʾàna ṱ-ásqən,ˈ xu-là ʾaxə́lli,ˈ xu-lɛ̀le ʾárya.ˈ la-ʾàrya,ˈ sùsɛle.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži mə̀reˈ ʾáwwa qḏìla.ˈ də-sùq!ˈ ʾáwwa yăḏèleˈ susət-gáne dìye.ˈ súsət gáne díye yăḏéle ʾɛ̀kɛle.ˈ mə́re míḏən ʾo-bɛ́ṯa ʾɛ̀kɛle.ˈ šádər xa-náša mə̀nni.ˈ šúdra xa-nàša,ˈ mə́re súq màxzile.ˈ ga-sàqa,ˈ mə́ṭye mə́re hòwileˈ ʾawwáʾha tằraˈ d-o-sùsɛle.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži sàqɛle.ˈ pṯáxəlle tắrət sùsa,ˈ tắrət gòma.ˈ súsa ṯáya wáḏa naṯyáṯe hàtxa,ˈ bắye maxèle.ˈ mə́xyəlla ʾíḏe hátxa gu-narṭómə sùsa.ˈ mə́re k̭òraˈ láš-it ḏàʾəlli?ˈ wắ-law ṱ-ín ʾanna-xámša šə́nne zíla b-dùnye,ˈ nə́mu lat-ḏàʾəlli?ˈ mára súsa kə̀lya,ˈ ḏíya máre dìyele.ˈ kə̀lyɛle súsa.ˈ ʾáwwa mtŭmə̀zəlle súse díye.ˈ kəmà-dana táma žáreˈ la-knìša,ˈ la-mtŭmə̀za,ˈ čù-məndi.ˈ də́ryəlle sárga xáṣe dìye.ˈ mbádla tíwa xáṣe díye ʾu-plìṭɛle.ˈ ʾɛ́-ga súsa kəmá-dana lɛ́le-xəzya šə̀mša,ˈ hóle pràxa.ˈ ṣə̀lyɛle,ˈ mə́xyɛle xa-fárra č̭ənnək̭ɛ́rə d-o-qàṣra.ˈ mə́re hèˈ hàyyoˈ tə́mməl ʾana-ʾə̀ṯyənˈ plíša mənnɛ̀xu.ˈ ʾáp-ʾədyo ho-ṯèli.ˈ lá ḏa-mənnɛ̀xu,ˈ lá pálṭa ḏa-ḏà.ˈ plùṭuˈ xàmməš,ˈ ʾə̀ššət,ˈ ʾə̀ssər,ˈ kùllɛxu plúṭu!ˈ báxtət gáne dìyeˈ ʾa-zùrtɛwa-ʾay.ˈ mə́ra ṭla-xaṯwàṯa,ˈ xáṯi ʾàna pálṭən.ˈ plíṭṭɛla ʾày.ˈ ʾɛ́-ga plášɛla gu-dìwən,ˈ ʾáy ʾu-gáwṛa dìya.ˈ ʾay-lɛ̀ḏa ṱ-íle gáwṛa dìya žáre.ˈ pláša mxàya,ˈ ʾay-mxàya,ˈ ʾaw-wáḏa mŭqàwăma,ˈ ʾay-mxàya,ˈ ʾaw-wáḏa mŭqàwăma,ˈ hàl gnɛ́ṯət yóma.ˈ gnɛ́ṯət yòmaˈ ríqtɛla bắya ṱ-óra gu-qàṣra.ˈ súse díye xɛlànɛle.ˈ dwìqəlle tắra.ˈ dwíqəlle tằra,ˈ mùrməlle kóse díye.ˈ mə́re ḥằšīm,ˈ nə́mu làt-ḏaʾəlli?ˈ lát-ḏaʾəlle sùsi?ˈ ʾá-dana qríṯɛla b-xaṯwáṯa dìya.ˈ mə́ra hàyyo!ˈ ʾáwwa ʾíle gàwṛi.ˈ ʾáwwa ʾíle gàwṛi.ˈ xéna xaṯwáṯa díya kúlla ṣlèla,ˈ kəmà-ṱ-ila!ˈ wéla xa-šadlaxàna.ˈ ʾáwər gu-d-o-qàṣraˈ wéla xlùla.ˈ mbádla qìmɛleˈ ʾo-yàla.ˈ plíṭɛle l-gáre ṣrìxɛle.ˈ mə́re kú-ṱ-ile bàṯriˈ mɛ́ṯe xa-kɛ́rtə qɛ̀saˈ máttu gu-tắrəd bɛ̀ṯi.ˈ kú-ṱ-ile bar-màlka,ˈ bàbi,ˈ máttu xa-kɛ́rtə qɛ́sa qam-tắrət màlka.ˈ mára kəmà-ṱ-ila moṯéla muttúla qɛ́saˈ … ḏìla módila qə́ṣṣətˈ … qam-tắrə dìye.ˈ mə́re de-mɛ́ṯole màlka!ˈ ʾáwwa wazíre kùllaˈ másqula láxxa màqḏula!ˈ kúlla qəm-mɛṯíla qaṭlìla.ˈ ʾáwwa šqílle báxte dìye,ˈ ʾu-xonăwáṯe dìye-wˈ ʾáwwa píšle málka šópət bábe dìye.ˈ šwiqáli táma ʾu-ṯéli làxxa.ˈ	There was a king who had forty sons. His youngest son was forty years old. He went to his father and said ‘I am forty years old. If each year you marry off one of these forty brothers of mine, I’ll be eighty years old (before I marry). I want to marry’. He said ‘By God, my son, you are right. I shall go now to see whether I can find forty women so that I can marry you all off together’. He set off and made inquiries. People said that there was a man with forty daughters. He went to another country, found that man and met him. He said ‘Fine (I agree). I shall give my forty daughters to your forty sons, but when you come here to seek their hands in marriage, you must not sleep in an orchard, in a meadow or in a palace. If you fulfil these (conditions), I shall give them to you’. His youngest son was called Barzəkko. He said ‘My son Barzəkko, you will be the leader of this thing. Go on your way, but the father of these girls has said that you must not sleep in a meadow, in an orchard or in a palace’. He said ‘Fine, father’. They set off and, when the sun was setting, they came to rest in a meadow, in which there were mules and the like, and there was a spring of water. They said ‘Where could we find a better place than this? We shall sleep here’. They all slept. That young man became their guard. Suddenly he saw a man, somebody dressed in black, his horse black, with his spear, which he had put between the ears of the mare and was also black. He came and rode around those people. He came up to him and said ‘Barzəkko, you should leave them, I am now going to make them all fried meat, that is I shall kill them’. ‘Oh, for God’s sake, don’t do that’ and so forth. ‘They are my brothers, my relatives’. He said ‘I am telling you, leave this place, (leave) them. I shall kill them all. You have no business with them’. He ran off to the mountain and he ran up after him. The man went into a cave. He had brothers there and a mother. He said ‘Get ready, we are going down’. They were giants. There were thirty giants in a cave. He said ‘Get ready, we are going down. Some people have set up camp in the meadow. Let’s go down, kill them and eat them. They are enough for us for one year’. What did Barzəkko do? He was standing at the entrance of the cave. As they went out, he (lunged) a sword into the belly of each one who went outside the cave. The mother of the giants said to the youngest son ‘My son, bring me also a thigh of a horse for me to eat. Perhaps those brothers of yours will not bring it’. As he went out, he killed also him. Barzəkko went in attacking her, the mother of the giants. He said ‘I shall bring you the thigh of a pig’. He killed also her. He went down. He had a servant. He handed over his horse to the servant. He entered his tent and slept until morning. In the morning they got up and all wanted to go, but Barzəkko was sleeping. They said ‘Wake up Barzəkko! For how long will he sleep?’ They woke him at day break and went on their way. They went a long way and arrived at an orchard. It was a large orchard. There were grapes in it, springs of water, and the like, everything. Another man arrived. They all went to sleep. Barzəkko became the guard. Another man came, dressed in red clothing, with a red horse, a red spear. In the night his spear was giving off sparks, so powerful was that man. ‘Go away from these people. You are famous (so I shall not kill you)’. He tried to dissuade him by begging him ‘Man, these are my brothers’ and so forth. ‘I’m telling you, you take yourself away. I shall finish off all of these people here’. Now, he fought also him. He and that man fought. They continued fighting until dawn. At dawn, the break of day, the man disappeared. Barzəkko went and slept. The next day they set off and on the third day’s stage (of the journey) they arrived at the palace. They arrived at the palace and he said ‘By God, my father-in-law said do not sleep here and also there (in the orchard and meadow). His brothers—the elder one—Barzəkko tried (to persuade them saying) ‘Let’s not sleep in this palace. Let’s sleep outside. My father-in-law said such-and-such’. They said ‘What have you seen in the meadow and the orchard that (you fear) to see here? We shall sleep here’. He said ‘Fine. Sleep!’ They slept there. While they all slept, he stood guard. In the morning a man came, with a white horse, a white spear and all his clothes were white. He came and said ‘Barzəkko, we have heard the news about your reputation. Go out of this palace. I am going to make it a desert.’ He tried to dissuade him by begging him, and so forth, but he did not (agree). He (Barzəkko) struck him with his sword and he (the other) said ‘What have you struck on my back?’ He (Barzəkko) said ‘Nothing, a rosary has hit your back’. He struck his head with a sword and nothing (happened). He tried but he could not prevail against him in any way. Then he said ‘Look, I’ll tell you something. Make your demands. I’ll do for you whatever you want. Just let us go to complete this task’. He said ‘My demand is that you go and bring back ’6lkăze Bădal Sahare. Bring her back for her to be my wife, then I shall release you and you can all go. But you have to promise, otherwise I shall kill all of you’. He said ‘I promise. Let us come and go here. I shall not go home from this palace, but shall bring for you ’6lkăze Bădal Sahare, a girl called ’6lkăze, forty tresses. It is Kurdish. As for Bădal Sahare, this means the star of dawn. This was the name of that girl, so beautiful was she. He went to his father-in-law and he said to him ‘Have you fulfilled my conditions? Have you all fulfilled them?’ He said ‘Yes’. He said ‘No. You have not fulfilled them’. He said ‘You slept in the meadow. And what did you see?’—Sorry, I have forgotten about the ears of the giants. He cut them off and put them in his saddle-bag.—He said ‘You slept in the orchard. What did you see?’ The eldest son said ‘We saw nothing?’ The other brothers said ‘We saw nothing’. He said ‘I shall not give my daughters to you.’ The youngest brother came and said ‘Yes, you are right. We came and laid down (our loads) in the meadow. Then a man came towards us. I went to expostulate with him, but that did not work. He ran up the mountain and I went up after him. There were giants in a cave. They came out. I killed every one that came out. I entered attacking even their mother and killed her. These are their ears’. He threw them in front of him. He said ‘You are right. That is one thing. Where did you sleep on the second day?’ He said ‘We slept in the orchard’. He said to those brothers of his ‘What did you see?’ They said ‘We did not see anything’. He (the youngest brother) said ‘What do you mean, we did see (something)!’ He said ‘A man came, on a red horse, all dressed in red. We fought from evening until morning. I could not prevail against him. In the morning he ran away. At day-break he disappeared’. He said ‘You are right about also that’. He said ‘What did you see in the palace?’ He said ‘In the palace a man came. He was a vagabond, I do not know what they call him, a vagabond’. He said ‘I tried to persuade him to leave us, but he did not go’. He said ‘I struck a sword on his back and he said “What did you strike on my back”, (Barzəkko said) “A rosary has hit you”. I struck my spear into him (and he said) “What has hit me?” Every time (I gave him) an excuse’. He said ‘In the end I said “What are your demands? I shall fulfil them for you”. He said “My demand is that you should go and bring back ’6lkăze Bădal Sahare. She is beyond seven seas. If you bring her here, I shall let you go. If not, I shall not let you go”’ He said ‘You are right.’ He gave his daughters to those people for the sake of that young brother. He went to the orchard etc, and the palace. That man had made the palace ten times (bigger than) before. He made a beautiful guesthouse, with armchairs, carpets, food, everything. The young brother said to the other brothers ‘Take this wife of mine with you. I shall not go beyond here. I have a job’. They went off and arrived at their home. They held a wedding. They invited people, they invited many people. They held a party, a huge wedding. The youngest brother was not there. The youngest brother remained in the palace with that man. He said ‘Come, tell me, who this ’6lkăze Bădal Sahare is and where she is’. He said ‘Go to the first sea, one sea. She lies beyond seven seas. She has seven brothers. She has a palace that spins round. On every corner of the palace there is a dove’. He said ‘You should cross those seven seas and reach that palace. As the palace spins round, hit each dove with a bow and arrow. Hit a dove and another corner will turn round towards you’. He said ‘Until when you have killed the seven doves, the palace will stop. It will stop and then you should go up, if you can. She has seven brothers. If you can take ’6lkăze and bring her here while remaining unharmed, good for you! If you cannot, they will kill you’. ‘Well’, he said ‘how can I cross these seven seas?’ I have no aeroplane or helicopter’, as they (would be called) now. He said ‘You are right in this also’. He said ‘Go to the first sea, go and (you will find that) there is a mountain. There are two mountains, with a valley between one mountain and the other. Go down and you will find a stone on the shore of the sea. Put your hand under that stone and you will find a bit of a horse, which they put in the mouth of a horse, don’t they?’ He said ‘Throw it like this into the sea. The mare of the seas will come out. She can fly’. He said ‘This bit should be put on her mouth. Sit on her back. If she says “I shall burn you in the sun of the sky”, you say “I shall go down under your belly”. If she says “I shall take you down to the bottom of the seas”, you say “I shall sit on your back”’. He said ‘(Do this) until she makes a promise in your presence, a promise three times, then she will take you, she will fly you over the seven seas and you will reach that palace. When you arrive at that palace, be careful not to let that horse go’. He said ‘But what should I do with her?’ He said ‘Tether her somewhere, so that she does not escape and go away’. He said ‘Fine’. He sat on his horse and went down. He went down a long way, as he had instructed him. He went down to the shore of the sea, as he had instructed him. He saw a very large stone. He put his hand under the stone and found the bit of a mare. He put it in the sea carefully and the mare of the seas came out. He sat on her back. She said ‘I shall burn you in the sun, from the fire of the sky, the sun’. He said ‘I shall go down under your belly’. She said ‘I shall take you down into the depth of the seas’. He said ‘I shall sit on your back’. He continued like this, until she submitted to him. She said ‘What do you want?’ He said ‘Take me to the palace of ’6lkăze Bădal Sahare’. So, she flew and took him to that place. She saw a palace and it was spinning, as he had said. There were seven corners on it. On each corner there was a dove. He had a bow and arrow (typical) of that time, is that not so? He shot one, twang, and hit it. Another one came round. The palace stopped. This ’6lkăze Bădal Sahare knew that he was coming. She had sent her brothers to the mountain hunting ‘Go off hunting!’, since she also wanted to marry, poor soul. He went up towards her and she said ‘Quickly, quickly, so that my brothers do not catch you’. She came with him. ‘Where to?’ His mare of the seas was ready. He sat on the back of the mare, put her behind him and (they went) across the seas. Now, the stones told her brothers that he had take ’6lkăze. The trees said to her brothers that he had taken ’6lkăze. They ran home and found that the palace was empty. They looked at the sea and saw the mare of the seas taking away ’6lkăze. They said ‘Go, you have taken her. Let her be permitted to you. You have taken her with your own force’. They went back and conceded her. She said ‘Where are you taking me?’ He said ‘I am not taking you for myself. I am taking you for this vagabond’. She said ‘Any man is forbidden to me except you’. She said ‘Any man is forbidden to me except you’. He said ‘Well, this is the story’. She said ‘You take me there. I’ll make a plan. Let’s see if we can kill this man. What should we do? We shall kill him’. He said ‘I have tried. I have tried to strike him. I struck a spear on his head, but it did nothing. I lunged a sword into him, but that did nothing’. She said ‘Leave him to me. I’ll deal with him’. He took her on the way and they arrived at the palace. The vagabond had gone out to hunt. He came back with a tree on his shoulder, full of wildlife, including wolves, foxes and rabbits. When he killed them, he put them (on the tree) and brought them home. He was a demon. He was happy to receive them. He showed them extraordinary respect. They remained two days there. He and the woman, that is ’6lkăze and the young man, made an agreement. She said ‘Don’t go and leave me, young man’. She said ‘I shall find out where his strength is, and how we can prevail over him so that we can finish him off, then I shall come with you’. Now, she became the wife of that vagabond. Every day she came with a pretext (to ask him) ‘Where is your strength? Where is your spirit? How do you live?’, I don’t know what (else she asked), she is woman! Everyday he would say ‘One day (I shall tell you)’. One day he said ‘My strength is in this broom’. She took the broom and put it in the fire, but nothing happened. She said ‘No, you have mocked me’. Your strength is not in that broom’. The next day he came and said ‘My strength is in another piece of wood. The next day she took that piece of wood and burnt it, but nothing (happened). She said ‘Look, I’ll tell you. You are mocking me. You don’t trust me. I am your wife. If you do not reveal to me in what your spirit lies and how you live, I shall not stay with you a single day longer’. He said ‘Look, I’ll tell you. My spirit is in a wild ox, in its chest there is a box. In that box there is a sparrow’. He said ‘That sparrow is my spirit. They must not kill that wild ox and take that sparrow. If ever that sparrow dies, then I shall die’. He said ‘That wild ox, moreover, will not die, unless three arrows of a bow and arrow are produced from the anvil of Egypt. Three arrows produced from it—by this it will die’. He went away and the young man whom she loved came. He said ‘So, what is the story?’ She said ‘By God, the story is this’. She said ‘This anvil of Egypt will not split’. He said ‘I shall split it’. She said ‘How?’ She twisted off one of her hair locks and said ‘Go for three days until you make an agreement with that man. Say to him “I shall work over this anvil until it splits. If it splits, you will produce three arrows and bows from it. If I do not split it, I shall work over it for free”. She said ‘Every day work over it from morning until evening. Twist this lock of hair like this. Don’t worry, go and sleep’. He went off and made inquiries, and found that anvil of Egypt. He made a contract with him (the owner). He said ‘I shall (work) over this for free. If I split it, you will produce for me three arrows from it. If I do not split it, I shall work over it for free’. He said ‘Man, you are wronging yourself. Who can break it?’ He said ‘By God, it is so. If I split it, you will give me three arrows and a bow. If not, nothing’. He said ‘Fine. Get to work!’ He worked every day every day, from morning until evening. In the evening he rubbed the lock of ’6lkăze on the anvil and went away. One day, the second day, the third day, in the morning, in the early morning, he heard a bang—it was split. He went (to look). He got up in the morning and went (to look) and saw that it was split. Then the owner of the anvil of Egypt made three arrows from that anvil of Egypt. He (Bazəkko) then returned. The vagabond used to go to the mountains in the day and come back at night. He (Barzəkko) went to ’6lkăze in the day-time. He said ‘I’ve come back and here are the three arrows of a bow’. She said ‘Look, in this mountain there is a spring of water. This wild ox once a day goes down to the spring of water and drinks water. Go and lay down a woolen mat. Take some tar’. She said ‘Put it in the water and put the tar on it. The water will stop flowing, the water will not come out. Put some wine further along’. She said ‘This ox will come and see that there is no water. It will smell the odour of the wine and not drink. It will go to the mountain, then come back again. In the end it will be forced to drink and will become drunk from the wine. It will come to sleep’. She said ‘At that time, strike it with those arrows and a bow. You will kill it and it will die. Slaughter it and open up its chest. The box, a box like this’ She said ‘take it from his chest and bring it to me’. He went and took them, together with wine to that place. He saw the spring. He pressed it down, put down tar, the woolen mat and tar. The water stopped flowing. He put some wine further up from them. He positioned himself. He dug a place to hide. He hid. Then that wild ox came to drink water. It did not find water. It went and sniffed, and smelt the odour of wine. It did not drink it. It went again to the mountain. It was thirsty and came back again, but again did not drink. The third time it drank. It drank and felt dizzy. It became drunk. That man (Barzəkko) was waiting in ambush there. He struck it with three arrows of a bow and it fell. He went and slaughtered it, opened its chest and found a box, small like this. He took it, brought it back and gave it to ’6lkăze, to the woman whom he had brought. He said ‘’6lkăze, here it is’. She said ‘Thank you very much’. When he struck the wild ox, that vagabond felt it and shivered. He was like this, as if he were ill. He came back home ill. She said ‘Ah, what is the matter with you?’ He said ‘I don’t know. I don’t know what has happened to that wild ox, whether it has fallen on a rock, whether a thing such as that has happened to him. I don’t know what is going on. Now I am very ill’. He said ‘I have never been ill like this’. He laid down a bed and went to sleep. She opened the box and said ‘Here is a sparrow’. She seized it and moved its shoulder like this, he also shook his shoulder. She pulled apart its head and its shoulder and threw everything down. At the same time he also died. Her husband (to be) came back, the one who had brought her. She notified him and he came back to the house. He took her and he remained there for some time. He took her and went home. He went to the home of his father. His father was a king. There was a battle in the town, a remarkable event. He had put his (Barzəkko’s) wife in a certain place. There was a house (there). He went and said ‘What is happening? What is happening?’ They said ‘By God, this king had a son. He brought back his wife. When they went and brought back forty wives, he brought back his wife. The king loves his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son. The wife of his son does not accept him. Those forty wives are all sisters and are against this thing. The king is confounded and says “I must marry this girl”. He sends people to the palace. Every day they fight (attempting) to seize the girl, seize the girl and bring her to marry the king, his father. His father wants her to marry (him)’. His father was the king. Now, he went off and became a servant of the king. He changed his clothes and became a servant of the king, giving water to the horses. Every day they would go out to fight. ‘What is happening?’ He (a bystander) said ‘(They are going) to the palace’, in which there were forty girls, her sisters. He said ‘What is in the palace?’ He said ‘By God, there are forty girls, the daughters-in-law of the king. The husband of a young girl among them has gone out into the world and the king wants to marry her. They are protesting against him’. He said ‘Well, cannot all these people who are going (to fight) prevail against the forty girls? Everyday an army of riders on the back of horses goes (to fight), horseman. Cannot they prevail against forty girls? I am going to bring her’. Word reaches the king. Word reaches the king, he (a courtier) said ‘King, may you be in good health, the servant who gives water to the horses has said “I shall go and take her”’. He said ‘Send for him and let him come’. He went and he said ‘What do you want?’ ‘King, may you be in good health, in all there are forty girls here, they are women, how is it that you cannot prevail against them? I shall go.’ ‘Give him a horse. Let him go tomorrow morning’. The next day he took a horse, sat on its back and went off. ‘Hey, I am so-and-so, come on, come out! Whoever wants to fight with me, let him fight with me’. They started saying to one another ‘Sister, a man has come out, he is shouting saying “Whoever wants to come and fight with me, let him come and fight with me”’. One girl went out. She said ‘I shall go out’. She went out and fought and fought, morning and evening. He did not want to strike. In the evening, at sunset, she ran away and entered the palace. He struck his sword on the neck of the horse on whose back he had come and killed it. He went to the king. He said ‘King, may you be in good health, what kind of horse did you give me?’ He said ‘What do you want?’ ‘Give me a good horse and I shall seize those girls’. He said ‘Fine’. He said ‘There is a horse that for these five years nobody has been able to get near’. Then he (Barzəkko) said ‘What horse is it? Where is it?’ He said ‘It is in such-and-such a place, in such-and-such a house’. He said ‘We even give food to it through the window’. He (Barzəkko) said ‘King, may you be in good health, give it to me, I shall go up (and ride it), surely it will not eat me, surely it is not a lion. It is a horse, not a lion. He (the king) said ‘This is the key. Off you go’ He knows it, (since it is) his own horse. He knows where his own horse is. He said ‘I don’t know where that house is. Send a man with me’. He sent a man. He said ‘Go, show him’. Now, when they went up and arrived, he said ‘Look, there it is. That door is the one of the horse’. He went up and opened the door of the horse, the door of a basement stable. The horse came moving his ears like this, intending to strike him. He put his hand like this on the snout of the horse. He said ‘Poor creature, don’t you know me anymore? Although I have been away in the world for these five years, don’t you know me any more?’ Now, the horse stood still, he knew he was his master. The horse stood still. He cleaned his horse. The poor thing had been there for so long, without being groomed or cleaned, nothing. He put a saddle on it. In the morning he sat on its back and went out. The horse had not seen the sun for so long and it flew off. He went down and made a circuit around the palace. He said ‘Hey, come here! Yesterday I came and fought with you. I have come also today. Not one of you, don’t come out one by one. Five, six, ten come out. All of you come out!’ His own wife was the youngest. She said to her sisters ‘My sister, I shall go out’. She went out. Then she fought in the reception room, she and her husband. The poor thing did not know that he was her husband. She fought and struck. She struck and he defended himself, she struck and he defended himself, until sunset. At sunset she ran off intending to enter the palace. His horse was strong. He held the door fast. He held the door fast and lifted up his hair. He said ‘You fool, don’t you know me? Don’t you know my horse?’ Then she shouted to her sisters. She said ‘Come! He is my husband. He is my husband’. Then all her sisters came down, how many they were! There was a party. He went into the palace and there was a wedding. In the morning the young man got up. He went out onto the roof and shouted. He said ‘Whoever supports me, let him bring a bundle of wood and put it at the door of my house. Whoever is behind the king, my father, put a bundle of wood before the door of the king’. Now, many people brought wood and put it before his door—they knew what the story was. He said ‘Bring the king! Bring him and all his ministers here and burn them!’ He brought them all and killed them. He took his wife and his brothers, and he became king in place of his father. I have left it there and come here.

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ʾíṯwa xa-màlkaˈ ʾíṯwale ʾárbi bnòne.ˈ brṓn-diye ʾo-zòraˈ ʾítwale ʾarbì šə́nne.ˈ zílle ṭla-babe-dìyeˈ mə́re ʾànaˈ ʾúmrile ʾarbì šə́nne.ˈ ʾína ʾánna xonăwàṯi,ˈ ʾarbì xonăwáṯi,ˈ kúššət magúrət xà,ˈ páyəš ʾúmri tmàni šə́nne.ˈ ʾána bắyən gàwrən.ˈ mə́re b-álaha bróni dū̀s-it.ˈ díya ʾána ṱ-àzənˈ xàzənˈ máčxən ʾarbí baxtàṯaˈ kúllɛxu magurə́nnɛxu b-ġḏàḏe.ˈ qyàmɛleˈ mbaqòrɛle,ˈ zála mára ʾiṯ-xa-nàšaˈ ʾítle ʾárbi bnàṯa.ˈ zálɛle l-xa-ʾáṯṛa xènaˈ ʾu-xzáyəlle ʾo-náša tfáqa bi-dìye.ˈ mára ma-yxàləf,ˈ t-yánna ʾárbi bnàṯiˈ ṭla-ʾárbi bnònux,ˈ ʾína ʾíman ṱ-aṯítu láxxa ṭalòbe,ˈ lá damxítu lá gu-kàrma,ˈ ʾu-lá gu-màrgaˈ ʾu-lá gu-qàṣra.ˈ ʾən-ʾánna mtăməmə̀tla,ˈ ʾána t-yànna-llux.ˈ brṓn-diye ʾo-zóra šə́mme díye Barzə̀kko.ˈ mə́re bróni Barzə̀kkoˈ ʾáti ṱ-àwətˈ qáʾəd d-áyya hə́nna ṱ-azìtu,ˈ ʾína hóle mìraˈ bába d-ánna bnàṯaˈ lá damxítu lá gu-màrga,ˈ ʾu-lá gu-kàrmaˈ ʾu-lá gu-qàṣra.ˈ mə́re ma-yxàləf bábi.ˈ qyámɛla zàla,ˈ zála mṭàyɛla,ˈ yóma gnàyɛle,ˈ dmáxɛla gu-xa-màrga,ˈ dawàrela,ˈ məndiyànela,ˈ ʾu-ʾíṯə ʾɛ́nət mìya táma.ˈ mə́ra bíš m-áyya dúkṯa ʾɛ̀ka xázəx?ˈ ʾáxni dámxəx làxxa.ˈ kúlla dmàxɛla.ˈ ʾo-yála pyášɛle naṭòra d-áni,ˈ ḥàrəs.ˈ xa-béna ʾo-xzàyɛle,ˈ ʾína xzáyɛle xa-nàša,ˈ xáʾa lwíša kòma,ˈ súse kòma,ˈ rúmxe múttəlla bēn-nā́ṯ sùstaˈ ʾap-áy kùmta.ˈ ṯáyɛle xḏárɛle č̭ənnək̭ɛ́rə d-an-nàše.ˈ mṭáya l-d-àwˈ mə́re Barzə̀kkoˈ ʾáti pálṭət gu-d-ànna,ˈ ʾánna kúlla díya ṱ-oḏə́nna qàlya,ˈ yáʿni qaṭlə̀nna.ˈ ʾɛ̀,ˈ xáṭər ʾalàha,ˈ lá-ʾoḏət ʾo-šùla,ˈ ʾáxxa l-tàmma.ˈ ʾánna har-xonăwàṯi,ˈ nàšile.ˈ mə́re márənnux plúṭ m-àxxa,ˈ gu-d-ànna.ˈ ʾìnaˈ kùlla b-qaṭlə́nna.ˈ ʾáti lítlux šúla mən-d-ànna.ˈ ʾáw ráqa zála l-ṭùra,ˈ ráqa sáqa báṯre dìye.ˈ ʾawwa-náša wárɛle gu-xa-gə̀ppa.ˈ ʾítle xonăwáṯa táma ʾu-yə̀mma.ˈ mə́re rzúgu ṣàləx.ˈ hambišàyela.ˈ ʾíṯwa ṭḷáṯi hambišáye gu-xa-gə̀ppa.ˈ mára rzúgu ṣàləx.ˈ hóla gu-màrga,ˈ hóla də́rye náše tàma.ˈ ṣàləx,ˈ qaṭlə̀xla,ˈ ʾaxlə̀xla.ˈ ṭla-ḏà-šeta maḷílən.ˈ Barzə́kko módi wìdle?ˈ hóle kə́lya l-tắrət gə̀ppa.ˈ ʾánna plàṭɛla.ˈ kúṱ-ile plàṭaˈ xa-sɛ́pa gu-káse qámət gə̀ppa.ˈ yə́mma d-an-hambišàyeˈ márɛla ṭla-brṓn d-o-zòraˈ bròni,ˈ ʾáp-ʾana mɛṯə́tli xá … ʾáṭmət súsa ṱ-àxlən.ˈ bálki ʾánna xonăwáṯux là mɛṯíli.ˈ plàṭɛle,ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw qṭàləlle.ˈ wárɛle Barzə́kko ṭáləb d-ày,ˈ yə́mmət hambišàye.ˈ mə́re ʾànaˈ mɛṯə́nnəx ʾáṭməd xzùra.ˈ ʾáp-ʾay qṭàləlla.ˈ ʾo-ṣlàyɛle.ˈ ʾítwale xulàma.ˈ súse díye mtaslóməlle ṭla-xulàma.ˈ wára gu-čádre dìye,ˈ dmáxa hal-mbàdla.ˈ mbàdla,ˈ qyàmɛla,ˈ kúlla bắyi ṱ-àzi,ˈ ʾáwwɛle dmìxa Barzə́kko.ˈ mára də-mărəšúle Barzə̀kko!ˈ hal-ʾíma dàməx?ˈ măróšəlle m-tàmaˈ b-yòma,ˈ qyáma zàla.ˈ zála, zàla,ˈ mṭáya,ˈ mṭáya kàrma.ˈ xa-kàrmɛleˈ rába gòṛa.ˈ ʾə̀nwe ʾíṯ gáwe,ˈ ʾɛnáṯə mìya,ˈ məndiyàne,ˈ kùll-xa mə́ndi.ˈ mṭáyɛle xa-náša xèna.ˈ ʾánna kúlla dmàxɛla.ˈ Barzə́kko pyáša ḥàrəs-ile.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle xá-naša xèna,ˈ lwíša lwíšta smòqta,ˈ súsa smòqa,ˈ rúmxa smòqta.ˈ b-lɛ́le rúmxe díye hóla mxáya kizə̀kke,ˈ ma-ṱ-íle ʾo-náša rába xɛlàna.ˈ plúṭ m-d-ànnaˈ ʾáti šə́mmux zìlɛle.ˈ pìšɛleˈ kízle mparpóle bìye:ˈ nàša,ˈ ʾánna xonăwàṯila,ˈ ʾáxxa l-tàmma.ˈ mára màrənnuxˈ ʾáti grùš gánuxˈ ʾánna dìyaˈ kúlla parqə̀nna.ˈ mára ʾáp-ʾaw hóle plìša.ˈ ʾáw-w ʾó-naša plàša,ˈ plàša,ˈ plàšaˈ hál gu-mbadlàṯa.ˈ gu-mbadláṯa mxɛ́ṯət yóma ʾó-naša tlìqɛle.ˈ rxìšɛleˈ ʾo-Barzə́kko zíla dmìxa.ˈ dart-yóma qímela zìleˈ ʾáp-ʾaw qúnəx ṭḷáṯa mə́ṭye l-qàṣra.ˈ mə́ṭyela l-qàṣra,ˈ mə́re b-álaha mìrɛle xəmyáni lá damxítu láxxa tămáha.ˈ ʾánna xonăwáṯe ʾo-gòṛaˈ ʾáwwa kàze, Barzə́kkoˈ yába là dámxəx gu-d-áwwa qáṣra.ˈ dámxəx l-wằdər.ˈ xəmyáni hàtxɛle míra.ˈ mə́ra gu-márga-w kɛ́rma mù xzélux ta-t-xázət láxxa?ˈ ʾáxni làxxa dámxəx.ˈ mə́re mà-yxaləfˈ dmúxu!ˈ dmíxela tàma.ˈ ʾánna kúlla dmìxelaˈ ʾáwwa qíma hàrəs-ile.ˈ gu-mbádla ʾə́ṯyɛle xàˈ xá, xá-susa xwàra,ˈ rúmxe xwɛ̀rta,ˈ kúlla lwíšte xwɛ̀rta.ˈ ʾə́ṯya mə̀reˈ Barzə́kko ʾáti šə̀mmuxˈ šə́myəx b-šămáṯə šə̀mmux.ˈ plúṭ mən-d-áwwa qàṣra,ˈ ʾáwwa ṱ-oḏə́nne čòl.ˈ kízle ʾáxxa-w tàmma,ˈ mparpóle bìye,ˈ ʾáwwa là.ˈ mxáyɛle rúmxe ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ mára mu-mxélux gu-xàṣi?ˈ mə́re čù-məndi,ˈ tabzìya qítle gu-xáṣux.ˈ mxáya sɛ́pa gu-rèše,ˈ čù-məndi.ˈ káze b-čù-ʾurxa lɛ́le mṣáya bíye.ˈ xárṯa mə́re xzí ṱ-amrə̀nnux.ˈ ṭlúb măṭáləb dìyux.ˈ módi bằyətˈ ʾána ṱ-oḏə̀nnux.ˈ ʾàxčiˈ šoqə̀tlənˈ ʾàxniˈ ṱ-ázəx ʾay-wajəbúṯa mkamlə̀xla.ˈ mə́re măṭáləb dìyiˈ ṱ-ázət mɛṯə́tli Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàre.ˈ mɛ́ṯətla ṱ-óya báxta ṭlàli,ˈ šoqə̀nnuxˈ ṱ-azìtu.ˈ ʾə̀llaˈ gắrəg mqàwlətˈ ʾən-làˈ kùllɛxu qaṭlənnɛ́xu.ˈ mə́re wadùṯa,ˈ šúqlən ṱ-ázəx ṱ-àṯəx láxxa,ˈ m-gu-d-àwwa qáṣraˈ ʾána l-bɛ́ṯa là-ʾazən,ˈ mɛṯə́nna Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàr-əllux.ˈ xa-bráta šə̀mmaˈ Čəlkằze,ˈ ʾárbi ṣoṣiyàṯa,ˈ kùrdəṯ-ila.ˈ ʾu-Bắdal Sahàre,ˈ yaʿni kə́xwət gu-mbadlàṯa.ˈ šə́mma d-ɛ̀-brata,ˈ ma-ṱ-íla šapìrta.ˈ zálɛle kəs-d-o-xəmyáne dìye.ˈ ʾamə̀rreˈ šŭrūṭ-díyi mkumlìlux?ˈ mkumlìlɛxu?ˈ mə́re hè!ˈ mə́re làˈ lètun mkúmləlla.ˈ mə́re hótu dmíxe gu-màrga.ˈ ʾu-mòditu xə́zye?ˈ ʾà,ˈ paxàlta.ˈ ʾán naṯyáṯə d-àn hambišáyeˈ nə̀šyənna.ˈ prìməlla-wˈ də́ryəlla gu-xúrje dìye.ˈ mə́re dmíxetu gu-kàrmaˈ mòditu xə́zye?ˈ xóna ʾo-góṛa mə́re čú-məndi lax-xə̀zye.ˈ w-an-xonăwáṯa xéne mə́ra čú-məndi lax-xə̀zye.ˈ mə́re bas-lè-y-yənna bnáṯi-llɛxu.ˈ ʾo-xóna zóra ʾə́ṯyɛle mə́re hè,ˈ dū̀s-it.ˈ ʾə́ṯyəx də́ryəx gu-màrga.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle xá-naša ṭàlbən.ˈ zílən mpurə̀pla bíyeˈ lɛ̀le wíya.ˈ ríqa síqa l-ṭùra.ˈ síqən bàṯre.ˈ gu-xa-gə́ppa hambišàye-wawa.ˈ plìṭela.ˈ kúṱ-ile plìṭaˈ qṭìlənəlle.ˈ ha-t-yəmméy wírən ṭàlbaˈ qṭìlənna,ˈ ʾánna naṯyaṯèy.ˈ mrúpyəlla qáme dìye.ˈ mə́re dū̀s-it.ˈ ʾáyya ḏà.ˈ yómə tré ʾɛ̀kɛtu dmíxe?ˈ mə́re dmíxəx gu-kàrma.ˈ mə́re ṭla-d-an-xonăwáṯe dìyeˈ mòditu xə́zye?ˈ mə́ra čù-məndi lax-xə̀zye.ˈ ʾáwwa mə́re dáx xə̀zyəx!ˈ mə́re ʾə́ṯyɛle xa-nàšaˈ xa-súsa smòqa,ˈ kúlle lwíša smòqa,ˈ wíyəx pláša m-ʾaṣə́rta hal-gu-mbadlàṯa.ˈ lan-mə́ṣya bíye dìye.ˈ gu-mbàdlaˈ ríqa zìlɛle.ˈ mxɛ́ṯət šə́mša tlìqɛle.ˈ mə́re ʾáp-ʾay dū̀s-it.ˈ mə́re gu-qàṣra móditu xə̀zye?ˈ mə́re gu-qáṣra ʾə́ṯyɛle xà,ˈ dewə̀rriš-ile,ˈ làn-ḏaʾa mo-qaríwale,ˈ dewə̀rriš.ˈ màraˈ kízən mpurə́plən bíye ta-šawə̀qlən,ˈ lɛ̀le zíla.ˈ mára maxə́nwale sɛ́pa gu-xàṣe.ˈ yáha mə́re mù-mxelux gu-xáṣi.ˈ tabzìya qítla bíyux.ˈ maxə́nwale rúmxi ʾə́lle dìyeˈ mù-qítle bíyi?ˈ kút-dana xa-hajə̀tta.ˈ mára b-əlʾaxī̀rˈ múrri măṭáləb díyux mòdila.ˈ ʾána ṱ-oḏə̀nna-llux.ˈ mə́re măṭáləb díyi mə́re ʾázət mɛṯə́tla Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàre.ˈ hóla p-ápe šawwà yamáṯa.ˈ mɛṯə̀tta-lli,ˈ šoqə́nnux ṱ-àzət.ˈ ʾən-là,ˈ là-šoqən ṱ-azítu.ˈ mə́re dū̀s-it.ˈ qímɛle híwəlla bnáṯe dìyeˈ ṭla-d-an-nàše,ˈ bəd-xáṭər d-ó-xona zòra.ˈ zílɛle mə́ṭyɛle l-kɛ́rma ʾu-məndiyàneˈ ʾu-l-qàṣra.ˈ ʾo-qáṣra ʾo-náša hàdəx-ile wíḏəlle,ˈ ʾəṣrà-gaye béna qamáya.ˈ xa-qúnəx wíḏəlle tàza,ˈ kanàpe-wˈ xalìye-wˈ mɛxòlta,ˈ kùl-xa mə́ndi.ˈ ʾó-xona zóra ʾámər ṭla-xonăwáṯa d-an-xèneˈ ʾáyya báxti nàblulaˈ mənnɛ̀xu.ˈ ʾána m-axxa-húdxa lɛ̀-y-azən.ˈ ʾítli šùla.ˈ ʾáni zìlela.ˈ mə́ṭye l-bɛṯàyˈ wíḏela xlùla.ˈ ʾu-čídla nàše,ˈ dùnye qəm-čɛdíla.ˈ wídla xa-ḥàfla,ˈ xa-xlùlaˈ ràba xɛlána.ˈ ʾo-xóna zóra lìṯ.ˈ xóna zóra píšle gu-qàṣra,ˈ kəs-d-o-nàša.ˈ mə́re háyyo mùrriˈ ʾay-mòdi,ˈ ʾáyya Čəlkắze Bắdal Saháre mòdila-wˈ ʾɛ̀kɛla.ˈ mə́re ʾàyyaˈ ṱ-àzətˈ máṭət l-yáma qamɛ̀ṯa,ˈ ḏa-yàma.ˈ ʾáy hóla p-ápe šawwà yamáṯa.ˈ ʾítla šawwà xonăwáṯa.ˈ ʾítla xa-qáṣra pàtəl.ˈ kút yaṣílət qàṣraˈ ʾíṯ ḏa-yàwna gáwe díye,ˈ yàwna.ˈ màraˈ ʾánna šáwwa yamáṯa pɛḏə̀tla,ˈ máṭət l-ò-qaṣra.ˈ ʾo-qáṣra hóle pṯàla,ˈ qə́šta-w gèraˈ kut-yáwna maxə̀tla.ˈ máxətla yàwna,ˈ ʾaw-yaṣíla xéna xaḏə̀r-əllux.ˈ mára há-t ʾánna šáwwa yawnáṯa qaṭlə̀tla,ˈ mára qáṣra kàle.ˈ b-kàle,ˈ xárṯa ʾàsqət,ˈ ʾən-màṣət.ˈ ʾítla šawwà xonăwáṯa.ˈ ʾən-máṣət šaqlə́tla Čəlkằze,ˈ mɛṯə́tla làxxaˈ ʾu-ʾáti sàxi,ˈ xēr-ʿala-xḕr.ˈ ʾu-ʾən-là máṣət,ˈ ʾáni qaṭlìlux.ˈ zḕnˈ mə̀reˈ ʾánna šáwwa yamàṯaˈ ʾana mù pɛḏə́nna?ˈ lítli ṭayyàra,ˈ hɛlikòptərˈ dax-ṱ-íla dìya.ˈ mə́re hàˈ ʾáp-ʾay dū̀s-it.ˈ mə́re ṱ-àzətˈ l-yáma qamɛ̀ṯa,ˈ ʾàzət,ˈ ʾíṯgena xa-ṭùra.ˈ trè ṭuránela,ˈ wàdilaˈ bēl-ṭúra l-ṭùra.ˈ ṣálət xázət xa-képa l-márzət yàma.ˈ dɛ́rət ʾíḏux xo-d-ò-kepa,ˈ b-xázət xá ləxxàwət súsa,ˈ mattíle gu-púmmət sùsa,ˈ lìṯ.ˈ mára zadə́tle hátxa gu-yàma.ˈ pálṭa sústət yamàṯa.ˈ ʾay-pàrxa.ˈ màraˈ ʾaw-ləxxáwa ṱ-áṯe púmma dìya.ˈ ṱ-áttət xáṣa dìya.ˈ mára maqḏánnux gu-šə́mšət šmàyya.ˈ ʾáti ʾámrət ṣálən xo-kàsəx.ˈ mə́ra maṣə́lyannux šə́ttət yamàṯa,ˈ ʾáti ʾámrət ṱ-áttən xàṣəx.ˈ mə́re hát ʾóḏa wadúṯa l-ʾiṯàṯux,ˈ wadúṯa ṭḷá gàye.ˈ mára ʾà-danaˈ ʾáyya nablàlux,ˈ mapərxálux šawwà yamáṯa,ˈ máṭət l-d-o-qàṣra.ˈ máṭət l-d-ò-qaṣra,ˈ háwət hə́šyər ʾína ʾáyya sústa là marpə́tla.ˈ mə́re ʾína mò ṱ-óḏen bíya?ˈ mə́re ʾasṛə̀tla xa-dúkṯa,ˈ t-la-šarṭa-w ʾàza.ˈ mə́re ma-yxàləf.ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw qyàmɛleˈ táwa xáṣət súse dìye-wˈ ṣlàya.ˈ ṣlàya,ˈ ṣlàyaˈ ʾax-ṱ-íle pqìḏəlle.ˈ ʾáwwa t-wéwa ṣláya l-márzət xa-yàma,ˈ ʾax-ṱ-íle pqìḏəlle.ˈ xzéle xa-képa rába gòṛa.ˈ ʾáwəḏ ʾíḏe xo-d-ò képa,ˈ ʾína xa-ləxxáwət sùsta.ˈ daréle gu-yáma hə̀šyər.ˈ ʾá sustə-yamáṯa plìṭṭɛla.ˈ tíwɛle xáṣə dìya.ˈ mə́ra maqḏánnux qam-šmàyya,ˈ m-núrə šmàyya,ˈ šə̀mša.ˈ mə́re ṣálən xo-kàsəx.ˈ mə́ra maṣlánnux gu-ʾúmqət yamàṯaˈ mə́re ṱ-áttən xàṣəx.ˈ de-hádəx dèˈ ha-ṱ-íla wíḏta tóba l-iṯáṯe dìye.ˈ mə́ra mòdi bắyət?ˈ mə́re nábəlli l-qáṣrət Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàre.ˈ mára prìxtɛla,ˈ nubáltəlle l-d-ɛ̀-dukṯa.ˈ xzíṯəlle xa-qàṣraˈ ʾína pṯàla,ˈ ʾax-t-wéwa mìra.ˈ šawwà yaṣíle bíye díye.ˈ kut-yaṣìlaˈ ḏa-yáwna tàma.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži ʾíṯwale qə́šta-w géra d-ɛ̀-ga,ˈ lìṯ?ˈ də́ryəlla xá čə́rək ʾu-mə̀xyəlla.ˈ ʾap-ʾa-xéta ṯìṯa.ˈ qáṣra kə̀lya.ˈ ʾáyya Čəlkắze Bắdal Sahàreˈ yăḏàwaˈ ʾáwwa hóle ṯàya.ˈ xonăwáṯa díya mšudártəlla l-ṭúra l-ṣɛ̀da,ˈ xúšu wúḏu ṣɛ̀da!ˈ sab-ʾáp-ʾay bắya t-goràwa,ˈ žàre.ˈ ʾáwwa síqa ṭálba dìyaˈ mə́ra jálde jàlde,ˈ xonăwáṯi t-la-maṭìlux.ˈ ʾáp-ʾay ṯíṯɛla mə̀nneˈ ʾɛ̀ka?ˈ ʾína súste díye hàzərˈ t-yamàṯa.ˈ tíwa xāṣ-sùsta,ˈ ʾu-ʾáy múttəlla báṯre dìyeˈ ʾu-réša-reša yamàṯa.ˈ xéna màraˈ kèpe mə́ra ṭla-xonăwáṯa núbləlla Čəlkắze.ˈ ʾilàne mára núbləlla Čəlkắze,ˈ ṭla-xonăwáṯa dìya.ˈ ʾáni rìqe,ˈ ʾə́ṯye l-bɛ̀ṯa,ˈ xə́zye ʾína qáṣra sapìqa.ˈ mátti bála gu-yàma,ˈ ʾìnaˈ ʾa-sústət yamàṯaˈ nabòləllaˈ Čəlkằze.ˈ mə́ra si-nublàlux.ˈ háwya halā̀l ṭlálux.ˈ b-xɛ́lət gànux nublálux.ˈ ʾə́ṯyela hìwəllaˈ ʾáy mə́ra lɛ̀kət nabóləlli?ˈ mə́re ʾána làn ṭláli nabóləlləx.ˈ nabóləlləx ṭla-d-áwwa dewə̀rrəš.ˈ mə́ra ḥărā́m-ile gáwṛa ʾə̀lliˈ šúq mən-dìyux.ˈ mə́ra ḥarā́m-ile gáwṛa ṭlàliˈ šúq mən-dìyux.ˈ mə́re xéna hàtxɛla qə́ṣṣət.ˈ mə́ra ʾáti nàbəlli táma.ˈ ʾána ṱ-óḏən xa-xə̀ṭṭa.ˈ xàzəxˈ qaṭlə̀xle ʾáwwa náša.ˈ mo-ṱ-òḏəx?ˈ qaṭlə̀xle.ˈ mə́re ʾána mjùrbən,ˈ kɛ́zən mxàya.ˈ mxéli rúmxa gu-rèšeˈ čú-məndi la-wìdla.ˈ mxéli sɛ́pa ʾə̀lle,ˈ čú-məndi la-wìdla.ˈ mə́ra šùqle-ʾəlli.ˈ ʾàna mtagəbránne.ˈ zála nabòle,ˈ zílla mṭèlaˈ l-qàṣra.ˈ ʾo-dewə́rrəš plíṭɛle l-ṣɛ̀da.ˈ ʾə̀ṯyɛle,ˈ ḏa-ʾilànaˈ hóla rš-rúše dìyeˈ mḷíṯɛla mən-rə́jbət ʾằra,ˈ dèwela,ˈ tèlela,ˈ harnùwela.ˈ har-qṭíla də́rya múṯya l-bɛ̀ṯa.ˈ xa-ʿafrī̀t-wewa.ˈ xḏèle bíya díya,ˈ qəm-dawə́qle qádra dìyaˈ xá-mdit ʾajəbùṯa.ˈ píšla trè-yome táma.ˈ ʾáw-w bàxta,ˈ Čəlkằzeˈ ʾo-yàla,ˈ wídla xàbra-xaˈ mə́ra là-ʾazətˈ šoqə́tli yàla.ˈ mə́ra ʾána xázyən ʾáwwa xɛ́le díye ʾɛ̀kɛle.ˈ dàxi máṣəx bíye díye,ˈ ta-t-pàrqəx mə́nne díye.ˈ ʾu-ʾána ṱ-àṯyən mə́nnux.ˈ de-píšla ʾáp-ʾay báxtə d-àwwa dewə̀rrəš.ˈ kút-yum ʾáṯya xa-hàjətta daryáwa bíye díyeˈ ʾáti xɛ́lux ʾɛ̀kɛle?ˈ róxux ʾɛ̀kɛla-w?ˈ ʾu-dáx-it xyàʾa?ˈ mìḏən mó,ˈ bàxtɛla dé!ˈ dè,ˈ dè,ˈ xàrṯaˈ kút-yum y-amə̀rwaˈ xà-yoma.ˈ xá-yoma mə̀reˈ xɛ́li hóla gu-d-áyya kanòšta.ˈ qəm-šaqlàla kanóšta,ˈ daryála gu-nùra.ˈ čú-məndi lìṯ.ˈ ʾay-mə́ra làˈ gxìklux bíyi.ˈ lɛ̀le xɛ́lux gu-d-áy kanóšta.ˈ dárt-yoma ṯèleˈ mə́re ʾána xɛ́li hóle gu-xa-qɛ́sa xèna.ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw dárt-yoma ʾaw-qɛ́sa šqìlla,ˈ muqìdla,ˈ čù-məndi.ˈ mə́ra xzí ṱ-amrànnux.ˈ ʾáti hot-gkàxa bíyi.ˈ lítlux ṯə́qa bìyi.ˈ ʾána bàxtux-iwən.ˈ ʾən-lá galə̀tliˈ róxux gu-mòdilaˈ ʾu-dáx-it xyàʾa,ˈ ʾána xà-yoma kə́slux la-pɛ́šən.ˈ mə́re xzá ṱ-amrə̀nnəx.ˈ róxi hóla gu-táwrət wàla.ˈ gu-ṣádre dìyeˈ ʾíṯ ḏá qoṱìya.ˈ gu-d-ó qoṱíya ʾíla xa-ṣə̀pra,ˈ mə́re ʾá-ṣəpra ʾíla ròxi,ˈ ʾən-lá qaṭlíle ʾo-táwrət wàla,ˈ šaqlíle ʾo-ṣə̀pra.ˈ kút-dana ʾa-ṣə́pra mìtle,ˈ ʾɛ́-ga ʾana-mɛ̀ṯən.ˈ mə́re ʾó tawrət-wála-ži là máyəṯ,ˈ ʾə́lla gríša ṭḷá gérət qə́šta-w gèra,ˈ mən-sadánəd Mə̀ṣr.ˈ ṭḷá gére gríše mən-d-àw,ˈ b-d-áw yálla màyəṯ.ˈ ʾáwwa zìlɛle.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle ʾo-yálət băyàwale.ˈ mə́re ʾáh qə́ṣṣət mòdila.ˈ mára b-álaha hā́l-u qə́ṣṣət hàtxɛla.ˈ mára ʾáwwa sadánət Mə́ṣr-ži lá pằqe.ˈ mə́re ʾàna păqə́nne.ˈ mə́ra dàxi?ˈ pṯíltəlle xá mən-káwsa dìya,ˈ mə́ra ʾázət ṭḷà yománeˈ ha-t-dóqət šárṭ mən-d-òˈ náša.ˈ múrre ʾána pálxən rəš-d-ò sadánaˈ hat-pằqe.ˈ ʾən-pằqe,ˈ gáršətli ṭḷá-gere-w qə̀šta mə́nne díye.ˈ ʾən-là mpŭqéli,ˈ ʾána pálxən b-réše díye bălā̀š.ˈ mə́ra kút-yum pálxət b-réše mbádla hal-ʾaṣə̀rta.ˈ ʾáwwa bə́ska patlə́tle hàtxa.ˈ lítlux šùla,ˈ ʾázət dàmxət.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži zìlaˈ mbùqrɛle,ˈ tfìqɛle rəš-d-ó sadánə Mə̀ṣr.ˈ wíḏɛle mqàwăla mə́nne díye.ˈ mə́re ʾána rəš-d-áwwa bălā̀š.ˈ ʾən-mpŭqèliˈ garšə́tli ṭḷa-gére mə́nne dìye.ˈ ʾu-ʾən-là mpŭqéli,ˈ ʾána pálxən b-réše bălā̀š.ˈ mə́re nàšaˈ zlámət gànuxˈ ʾáwwa mằni mpăqéle?ˈ mə́re b-álaha hàtxa.ˈ ʾən-păqə̀nne,ˈ t-yátli ṭḷa-gère-w-qəšta.ˈ ʾən-là,ˈ čù-məndi.ˈ mə́re ma-yxàləf.ˈ plùx.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži páləx kút-yum mbádla hal-ʾaṣə̀rta.ˈ ʾaṣə́rta ʾo-bə́ska t-Čəlkằzeˈ maxèwa,ˈ šayə́pwale gu-d-ò sadána,ˈ ʾu-y-azə̀lwa.ˈ xà-yoma,ˈ yómə trè,ˈ yómə ṭḷàṯa,ˈ gu-mbadlàṯa,ˈ gu-b-lɛ̀le,ˈ šmíya xa-pàmma!ˈ pqìle.ˈ ʾáwwa zìla,ˈ qíma mbádla zíla ʾína ʾo-pə̀qya.ˈ ʾɛ́-ga ʾó-mara d-o-sadánə Mə́ṣr qímɛle wíḏɛle ṭḷa-gére mən-d-ó sadánə Mə̀ṣr.ˈ qímɛle díṛɛle zìla.ˈ ʾó dewə̀rrəš b-yóma y-azə́lwa l-ṭùra,ˈ b-lɛ̀le y-aṯéwa.ˈ ʾáw b-yóma zíla kəs-d-a-Čəlkằze.ˈ mə́re ṯéli hó ʾan-ṭḷá gerə-qə̀šta.ˈ mə́ra xzì.ˈ ʾáwwa ṭúra ʾíṯgena ḏa-ʾɛ́nət míya tàma.ˈ ʾáwwa táwrət wàlaˈ yomíyya xá-bena ṣále š-d-ɛ-ʾɛ́nət mìyaˈ šáte mìya.ˈ ʾázət máttət xa-ṭaṭìya.ˈ náblət xáčča qìra.ˈ mə́ra ʾáyya mattə́tla gu-mìya,ˈ ʾa-qìraˈ darə́tla b-rèša.ˈ ʾan-míya kàtpi.ˈ là-palṭi míya.ˈ dárət xáčča xàmra,ˈ xáčča bìš hódəx mənna-díya,ˈ xàmra.ˈ mára ʾáwwa táwra ṱ-áṯe xáze míya lìṯgena,ˈ mayə̀xle ríxə d-o-xámraˈ lè-y-šate.ˈ ṱ-ázəl ṭúra xá-ga xéta ṱ-àṯe.ˈ páyəš májbur béna xaráya šàte,ˈ mən-d-ó-xamra b-ràwe.ˈ ṱ-áṯe l-dmàxa.ˈ mára ʾɛ̀-gaˈ maxə́tla ʾánna qə́šta-w gére ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ qaṭlə̀tle,ˈ màyəṯ.ˈ parmə̀tle,ˈ paṯxə́tle ṣádre dìye.ˈ ʾa-qoṱìya,ˈ xa-qotíya ʾax-d-àwwɛle,ˈ mə̀raˈ m-gu-ṣádre dìyeˈ šaqlə̀tleˈ mɛṯə́tle ṭlàli.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži zàlɛle,ˈ nabòləllaˈ xámra mə́nna dìya,ˈ l-d-à-dukṯa.ˈ xzàyəlla ʾɛ́na.ˈ mdabòqəllaˈ mattóye qìra,ˈ ṭaṭíya-w qìra.ˈ míya ktàpɛla.ˈ dráyɛle biš-hódəx mə́nna díya xáčča xàmra.ˈ ʾáw mattóyəlla gáne dìye.ˈ hóle xpírəlla xa-dùkṯaˈ mṭašòyəlla.ˈ mṭùšyəlla.ˈ xa-béna ʾə́ṯyɛle ʾaw-táwrət wàlaˈ ṭla-šáte mìya.ˈ míya lɛ́le xə̀zya.ˈ zìlɛleˈ míxɛle ʾína ríxət xàmra.ˈ lɛ̀le šə́tya mə́nna.ˈ zíla xá-ga xéta l-ṭùra.ˈ ṣìya-wewa,ˈ xà-ga xéta ṯéle,ˈ xà-ga xéta lɛ́le šə́tya.ˈ béna ṭḷá ṯéle štèle.ˈ štèle,ˈ guyžə̀nne,ˈ rwèle.ˈ ʾó-naša hóle tíwa gu-čằpər táma.ˈ maxéle ṭḷá qə́šta-w géra ʾə́lle dìyeˈ npìlɛle.ˈ zíla prìməlle,ˈ pṯìxa ṣádre díye.ˈ ʾína ḏá qotíya hátxa zòra.ˈ šqìləlla,ˈ mùsqəlla,ˈ híwəlla ṭla-Čəlkằze,ˈ ṭla-d-a-báxtə t-wéwa mùṯyəlla.ˈ mə́re Čəlkằzeˈ hòla.ˈ mə́ra háwət basíma ràba.ˈ ʾo-dewə̀rrəšˈ ʾímə ṱ-ile-mə́xyəlle táwrət wàlaˈ ṛìšɛleˈ mgunə̀gzɛle.ˈ hàtxɛwa,ˈ ʾax-mə̀rya.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle l-bɛ́ṯa ʾína mə̀rya.ˈ mə́ra ʾa-mà-lux?ˈ mə́re b-àlaha,ˈ làn-ḏaʾa,ˈ ʾáwwa táwrət wála lán-ḏaʾa módi ʾə́ṯya bìye,ˈ npílɛle b-ʾisàra,ˈ ʾawwa xà-məndile qíṯa bíye.ˈ lán-ḏaʾa módila qə̀ṣṣət.ˈ díya hon-rába mə̀rya.ˈ mə́re čù-ga hátxa lan-mə́rya.ˈ də́ryəlla xa-šwìṯaˈ dmìxɛle.ˈ ʾay-ži pṯíxtəlle ʾo-sandùqaˈ mə́ra hòleˈ čučə̀kka.ˈ mára dwìqtəlleˈ ʾoḏále rúše hàtxa,ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw nayə̀dwa rúše díye.ˈ nčíltəlle rèše-wˈ rùše-wˈ kúlla rupɛ̀ṯəlla.ˈ ʾáp-ʾaw mìtwaleˈ har-a-dàna.ˈ ʾə́ṯyɛle ʾo-gàwṛa díya,ˈ ʾo-t-wéwa mùṯyəlla.ˈ muxbə̀rtəlle,ˈ ʾə̀ṯyɛleˈ l-bɛ̀ṯa.ˈ šqìləlla.ˈ píšɛle táma kəmà-dana.ˈ šqíləlla ʾu-zíla l-bɛ̀ṯa.ˈ zíla l-bɛ́ṯət bàbe díye.ˈ bábe díye màlkɛle.ˈ hóle xa-pláša gu-d-a-màṯa,ˈ ʾajəbùṯa.ˈ ʾáwwa báxte díye múttəlla gu-ḏa-dùkṯa.ˈ ʾíṯwa xa-bɛ̀ṯa.ˈ zílɛle mə́re mòdila qə́ṣṣət?ˈ mòdila qə́ṣṣət?ˈ mə́ra b-àlaha,ˈ ʾáwwa málka ʾítwale xá bròna.ˈ báxte díye mùṯyəlla.ˈ ʾímə ṱ-íla zála múṯyəlla ʾarbí baxtàṯa,ˈ múṯyəlla báxte dìye.ˈ ʾaw-málka bắye kálṯe dìye,ˈ báxtət bróne dìye.ˈ ʾu-báxtət brōn-díye là-qabla.ˈ ʾan-ʾárbi baxtáṯa kúlla xaṯwàṯɛla,ˈ dárqūl d-a-məndìla.ˈ ʾu-málka hóle mhuyə̀ra,ˈ mára ʾə̀lla gắrəg ʾáyya bráta gorə́nna.ˈ mšadóre náše l-d-ó qàṣra.ˈ kút-yum plàšɛlaˈ ta-t-doqíla ʾa-bràta,ˈ doqíla ʾa-bràtaˈ mɛṯɛ́la ta-t-gáwra màlka,ˈ bàbe díye.ˈ bábə díye bắye gàwra.ˈ bábe díye màlkɛwa.ˈ mára ʾáp-ʾaw qímɛle zìlɛle,ˈ píšɛle xuláma t-màlka.ˈ mšoxə̀lpəlla júlle díye. pìšɛleˈ xolámət màlka,ˈ maštóye susăwáṯa mìya.ˈ kút-yum ʾánna palṭíwa plàša.ˈ mòdila qə́ṣṣət?ˈ mə́re l-d-o-qáṣra t-wɛ́wa ʾárbi bnáṯa gáwe dìye,ˈ xaṯwáṯa dìya.ˈ mə́re mòdila gu-d-áwwa qáṣra?ˈ mə́re b-àlahaˈ ʾíṯgena ʾarbí bnàṯa,ˈ kaláṯət màlka,ˈ ḏá-mənna zùrta,ˈ gáwṛa díya zíla b-dùnye,ˈ bắye málka gawə̀rra.ˈ ʾu-ʾánna hóla ʾàṣi ʾə́lle díye.ˈ mə́re ga-béna ʾánna kúlla ṱ-íla zála lɛ́la mṣáya b-an-ʾárbi bnàṯa?ˈ kút-yum zála hàtxaˈ jḗš m-ánna ʾatwánə xáṣə susăwàṯa,ˈ swarìyye.ˈ lɛ́la mṣáya b-an-ʾárbi bnàṯa?ˈ ʾàna ṱ-ázən mɛṯə́nna.ˈ mṭáyɛle xábra l-màlka.ˈ mṭáyɛle xábra l-màlkaˈ mə́re málka ṱ-áwət basìma,ˈ ʾáwwa saqáwa d-ánna susăwàṯa,ˈ mə́re ʾàna ṱ-ázən šaqlə́nna-ana.ˈ mə́re mšádrule ṱ-àṯe.ˈ zíla mə́re mòdi bắyət?ˈ málka ṱ-áwe basìma,ˈ kùllaˈ ʾárbi bnàṯɛla láxxa,ˈ baxtàṯɛla,ˈ dáx létu mṣáya bìya?ˈ ʾána ṱ-àzən.ˈ hállule xa-sùsa.ˈ tə́mməl mbádla ʾàzəl.ˈ šqála dárt-yoma xà-susaˈ táwa xáṣe díye zàlaˈ hèˈ ʾána fə̀llən,ˈ hàyyo,ˈ háyyo plùṭu.ˈ kut-bắye páləš mə́nni páləš mə̀nni.ˈ ʾáni píšela màraˈ ḏa-ṭla-ḏa-xèta,ˈ xáṯi hóle xa-plìṭa,ˈ hóle ṣráxa màraˈ kut-bắye ʾáṯe páləš mə́nni ʾáṯe páləš mə̀nni.ˈ plíṭṭɛla ḏà,ˈ mə́ra ʾàna pálṭən.ˈ plìṭṭa,ˈ pláša plàšaˈ mbádla ʾaṣə̀rta.ˈ ʾáwwa là bắye máxe.ˈ ʾaṣə̀rtaˈ gu-gnɛ́ṯət yóma ʾáyya ríqtɛla wírtɛla gu-qàṣra.ˈ ʾáwwa mə́xyɛle sɛ́pe l-qḏálə d-o-súsa ṱ-íle ʾə́ṯya b-xáṣe díye,ˈ qṭìləlle.ˈ zílɛle kəs-màlka,ˈ mə́re málka ṱ-áwət basìmaˈ ʾáwwa mù-susət híwəlli ʾáti?ˈ mə́re mó bằyət?ˈ hálli xa-súsa spày.ˈ ʾána b-doqə́nna ʾánna bnàṯa.ˈ mə́re ma-yxàləf.ˈ mə́re xa-sùsaˈ ʾánna xamšà šə́nneˈ ʾáp-xa lɛ́le mə́ṣya mə́ṭya ʾə́lle dìye.ˈ ga-mə́re mo-sùsɛle?ˈ ʾɛ̀kɛle? mə́re hóle fə́llən dùkṯa,ˈ gu-fə̀llən bɛ́ṯa.ˈ mə́re hátta mɛxólta b-kàwe dárəx ʾəlle-díye.ˈ mə́re málka ṱ-áwət basìmaˈ də-hálli ʾàna ṱ-ásqən,ˈ xu-là ʾaxə́lli,ˈ xu-lɛ̀le ʾárya.ˈ la-ʾàrya,ˈ sùsɛle.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži mə̀reˈ ʾáwwa qḏìla.ˈ də-sùq!ˈ ʾáwwa yăḏèleˈ susət-gáne dìye.ˈ súsət gáne díye yăḏéle ʾɛ̀kɛle.ˈ mə́re míḏən ʾo-bɛ́ṯa ʾɛ̀kɛle.ˈ šádər xa-náša mə̀nni.ˈ šúdra xa-nàša,ˈ mə́re súq màxzile.ˈ ga-sàqa,ˈ mə́ṭye mə́re hòwileˈ ʾawwáʾha tằraˈ d-o-sùsɛle.ˈ ʾáwwa-ži sàqɛle.ˈ pṯáxəlle tắrət sùsa,ˈ tắrət gòma.ˈ súsa ṯáya wáḏa naṯyáṯe hàtxa,ˈ bắye maxèle.ˈ mə́xyəlla ʾíḏe hátxa gu-narṭómə sùsa.ˈ mə́re k̭òraˈ láš-it ḏàʾəlli?ˈ wắ-law ṱ-ín ʾanna-xámša šə́nne zíla b-dùnye,ˈ nə́mu lat-ḏàʾəlli?ˈ mára súsa kə̀lya,ˈ ḏíya máre dìyele.ˈ kə̀lyɛle súsa.ˈ ʾáwwa mtŭmə̀zəlle súse díye.ˈ kəmà-dana táma žáreˈ la-knìša,ˈ la-mtŭmə̀za,ˈ čù-məndi.ˈ də́ryəlle sárga xáṣe dìye.ˈ mbádla tíwa xáṣe díye ʾu-plìṭɛle.ˈ ʾɛ́-ga súsa kəmá-dana lɛ́le-xəzya šə̀mša,ˈ hóle pràxa.ˈ ṣə̀lyɛle,ˈ mə́xyɛle xa-fárra č̭ənnək̭ɛ́rə d-o-qàṣra.ˈ mə́re hèˈ hàyyoˈ tə́mməl ʾana-ʾə̀ṯyənˈ plíša mənnɛ̀xu.ˈ ʾáp-ʾədyo ho-ṯèli.ˈ lá ḏa-mənnɛ̀xu,ˈ lá pálṭa ḏa-ḏà.ˈ plùṭuˈ xàmməš,ˈ ʾə̀ššət,ˈ ʾə̀ssər,ˈ kùllɛxu plúṭu!ˈ báxtət gáne dìyeˈ ʾa-zùrtɛwa-ʾay.ˈ mə́ra ṭla-xaṯwàṯa,ˈ xáṯi ʾàna pálṭən.ˈ plíṭṭɛla ʾày.ˈ ʾɛ́-ga plášɛla gu-dìwən,ˈ ʾáy ʾu-gáwṛa dìya.ˈ ʾay-lɛ̀ḏa ṱ-íle gáwṛa dìya žáre.ˈ pláša mxàya,ˈ ʾay-mxàya,ˈ ʾaw-wáḏa mŭqàwăma,ˈ ʾay-mxàya,ˈ ʾaw-wáḏa mŭqàwăma,ˈ hàl gnɛ́ṯət yóma.ˈ gnɛ́ṯət yòmaˈ ríqtɛla bắya ṱ-óra gu-qàṣra.ˈ súse díye xɛlànɛle.ˈ dwìqəlle tắra.ˈ dwíqəlle tằra,ˈ mùrməlle kóse díye.ˈ mə́re ḥằšīm,ˈ nə́mu làt-ḏaʾəlli?ˈ lát-ḏaʾəlle sùsi?ˈ ʾá-dana qríṯɛla b-xaṯwáṯa dìya.ˈ mə́ra hàyyo!ˈ ʾáwwa ʾíle gàwṛi.ˈ ʾáwwa ʾíle gàwṛi.ˈ xéna xaṯwáṯa díya kúlla ṣlèla,ˈ kəmà-ṱ-ila!ˈ wéla xa-šadlaxàna.ˈ ʾáwər gu-d-o-qàṣraˈ wéla xlùla.ˈ mbádla qìmɛleˈ ʾo-yàla.ˈ plíṭɛle l-gáre ṣrìxɛle.ˈ mə́re kú-ṱ-ile bàṯriˈ mɛ́ṯe xa-kɛ́rtə qɛ̀saˈ máttu gu-tắrəd bɛ̀ṯi.ˈ kú-ṱ-ile bar-màlka,ˈ bàbi,ˈ máttu xa-kɛ́rtə qɛ́sa qam-tắrət màlka.ˈ mára kəmà-ṱ-ila moṯéla muttúla qɛ́saˈ … ḏìla módila qə́ṣṣətˈ … qam-tắrə dìye.ˈ mə́re de-mɛ́ṯole màlka!ˈ ʾáwwa wazíre kùllaˈ másqula láxxa màqḏula!ˈ kúlla qəm-mɛṯíla qaṭlìla.ˈ ʾáwwa šqílle báxte dìye,ˈ ʾu-xonăwáṯe dìye-wˈ ʾáwwa píšle málka šópət bábe dìye.ˈ šwiqáli táma ʾu-ṯéli làxxa.ˈ

Translation:

There was a king who had forty sons. His youngest son was forty years old. He went to his father and said ‘I am forty years old. If each year you marry off one of these forty brothers of mine, I’ll be eighty years old (before I marry). I want to marry’. He said ‘By God, my son, you are right. I shall go now to see whether I can find forty women so that I can marry you all off together’. He set off and made inquiries. People said that there was a man with forty daughters. He went to another country, found that man and met him. He said ‘Fine (I agree). I shall give my forty daughters to your forty sons, but when you come here to seek their hands in marriage, you must not sleep in an orchard, in a meadow or in a palace. If you fulfil these (conditions), I shall give them to you’. His youngest son was called Barzəkko. He said ‘My son Barzəkko, you will be the leader of this thing. Go on your way, but the father of these girls has said that you must not sleep in a meadow, in an orchard or in a palace’. He said ‘Fine, father’. They set off and, when the sun was setting, they came to rest in a meadow, in which there were mules and the like, and there was a spring of water. They said ‘Where could we find a better place than this? We shall sleep here’. They all slept. That young man became their guard. Suddenly he saw a man, somebody dressed in black, his horse black, with his spear, which he had put between the ears of the mare and was also black. He came and rode around those people. He came up to him and said ‘Barzəkko, you should leave them, I am now going to make them all fried meat, that is I shall kill them’. ‘Oh, for God’s sake, don’t do that’ and so forth. ‘They are my brothers, my relatives’. He said ‘I am telling you, leave this place, (leave) them. I shall kill them all. You have no business with them’. He ran off to the mountain and he ran up after him. The man went into a cave. He had brothers there and a mother. He said ‘Get ready, we are going down’. They were giants. There were thirty giants in a cave. He said ‘Get ready, we are going down. Some people have set up camp in the meadow. Let’s go down, kill them and eat them. They are enough for us for one year’. What did Barzəkko do? He was standing at the entrance of the cave. As they went out, he (lunged) a sword into the belly of each one who went outside the cave. The mother of the giants said to the youngest son ‘My son, bring me also a thigh of a horse for me to eat. Perhaps those brothers of yours will not bring it’. As he went out, he killed also him. Barzəkko went in attacking her, the mother of the giants. He said ‘I shall bring you the thigh of a pig’. He killed also her. He went down. He had a servant. He handed over his horse to the servant. He entered his tent and slept until morning. In the morning they got up and all wanted to go, but Barzəkko was sleeping. They said ‘Wake up Barzəkko! For how long will he sleep?’ They woke him at day break and went on their way. They went a long way and arrived at an orchard. It was a large orchard. There were grapes in it, springs of water, and the like, everything. Another man arrived. They all went to sleep. Barzəkko became the guard. Another man came, dressed in red clothing, with a red horse, a red spear. In the night his spear was giving off sparks, so powerful was that man. ‘Go away from these people. You are famous (so I shall not kill you)’. He tried to dissuade him by begging him ‘Man, these are my brothers’ and so forth. ‘I’m telling you, you take yourself away. I shall finish off all of these people here’. Now, he fought also him. He and that man fought. They continued fighting until dawn. At dawn, the break of day, the man disappeared. Barzəkko went and slept. The next day they set off and on the third day’s stage (of the journey) they arrived at the palace. They arrived at the palace and he said ‘By God, my father-in-law said do not sleep here and also there (in the orchard and meadow). His brothers—the elder one—Barzəkko tried (to persuade them saying) ‘Let’s not sleep in this palace. Let’s sleep outside. My father-in-law said such-and-such’. They said ‘What have you seen in the meadow and the orchard that (you fear) to see here? We shall sleep here’. He said ‘Fine. Sleep!’ They slept there. While they all slept, he stood guard. In the morning a man came, with a white horse, a white spear and all his clothes were white. He came and said ‘Barzəkko, we have heard the news about your reputation. Go out of this palace. I am going to make it a desert.’ He tried to dissuade him by begging him, and so forth, but he did not (agree). He (Barzəkko) struck him with his sword and he (the other) said ‘What have you struck on my back?’ He (Barzəkko) said ‘Nothing, a rosary has hit your back’. He struck his head with a sword and nothing (happened). He tried but he could not prevail against him in any way. Then he said ‘Look, I’ll tell you something. Make your demands. I’ll do for you whatever you want. Just let us go to complete this task’. He said ‘My demand is that you go and bring back ’6lkăze Bădal Sahare. Bring her back for her to be my wife, then I shall release you and you can all go. But you have to promise, otherwise I shall kill all of you’. He said ‘I promise. Let us come and go here. I shall not go home from this palace, but shall bring for you ’6lkăze Bădal Sahare, a girl called ’6lkăze, forty tresses. It is Kurdish. As for Bădal Sahare, this means the star of dawn. This was the name of that girl, so beautiful was she. He went to his father-in-law and he said to him ‘Have you fulfilled my conditions? Have you all fulfilled them?’ He said ‘Yes’. He said ‘No. You have not fulfilled them’. He said ‘You slept in the meadow. And what did you see?’—Sorry, I have forgotten about the ears of the giants. He cut them off and put them in his saddle-bag.—He said ‘You slept in the orchard. What did you see?’ The eldest son said ‘We saw nothing?’ The other brothers said ‘We saw nothing’. He said ‘I shall not give my daughters to you.’ The youngest brother came and said ‘Yes, you are right. We came and laid down (our loads) in the meadow. Then a man came towards us. I went to expostulate with him, but that did not work. He ran up the mountain and I went up after him. There were giants in a cave. They came out. I killed every one that came out. I entered attacking even their mother and killed her. These are their ears’. He threw them in front of him. He said ‘You are right. That is one thing. Where did you sleep on the second day?’ He said ‘We slept in the orchard’. He said to those brothers of his ‘What did you see?’ They said ‘We did not see anything’. He (the youngest brother) said ‘What do you mean, we did see (something)!’ He said ‘A man came, on a red horse, all dressed in red. We fought from evening until morning. I could not prevail against him. In the morning he ran away. At day-break he disappeared’. He said ‘You are right about also that’. He said ‘What did you see in the palace?’ He said ‘In the palace a man came. He was a vagabond, I do not know what they call him, a vagabond’. He said ‘I tried to persuade him to leave us, but he did not go’. He said ‘I struck a sword on his back and he said “What did you strike on my back”, (Barzəkko said) “A rosary has hit you”. I struck my spear into him (and he said) “What has hit me?” Every time (I gave him) an excuse’. He said ‘In the end I said “What are your demands? I shall fulfil them for you”. He said “My demand is that you should go and bring back ’6lkăze Bădal Sahare. She is beyond seven seas. If you bring her here, I shall let you go. If not, I shall not let you go”’ He said ‘You are right.’ He gave his daughters to those people for the sake of that young brother. He went to the orchard etc, and the palace. That man had made the palace ten times (bigger than) before. He made a beautiful guesthouse, with armchairs, carpets, food, everything. The young brother said to the other brothers ‘Take this wife of mine with you. I shall not go beyond here. I have a job’. They went off and arrived at their home. They held a wedding. They invited people, they invited many people. They held a party, a huge wedding. The youngest brother was not there. The youngest brother remained in the palace with that man. He said ‘Come, tell me, who this ’6lkăze Bădal Sahare is and where she is’. He said ‘Go to the first sea, one sea. She lies beyond seven seas. She has seven brothers. She has a palace that spins round. On every corner of the palace there is a dove’. He said ‘You should cross those seven seas and reach that palace. As the palace spins round, hit each dove with a bow and arrow. Hit a dove and another corner will turn round towards you’. He said ‘Until when you have killed the seven doves, the palace will stop. It will stop and then you should go up, if you can. She has seven brothers. If you can take ’6lkăze and bring her here while remaining unharmed, good for you! If you cannot, they will kill you’. ‘Well’, he said ‘how can I cross these seven seas?’ I have no aeroplane or helicopter’, as they (would be called) now. He said ‘You are right in this also’. He said ‘Go to the first sea, go and (you will find that) there is a mountain. There are two mountains, with a valley between one mountain and the other. Go down and you will find a stone on the shore of the sea. Put your hand under that stone and you will find a bit of a horse, which they put in the mouth of a horse, don’t they?’ He said ‘Throw it like this into the sea. The mare of the seas will come out. She can fly’. He said ‘This bit should be put on her mouth. Sit on her back. If she says “I shall burn you in the sun of the sky”, you say “I shall go down under your belly”. If she says “I shall take you down to the bottom of the seas”, you say “I shall sit on your back”’. He said ‘(Do this) until she makes a promise in your presence, a promise three times, then she will take you, she will fly you over the seven seas and you will reach that palace. When you arrive at that palace, be careful not to let that horse go’. He said ‘But what should I do with her?’ He said ‘Tether her somewhere, so that she does not escape and go away’. He said ‘Fine’. He sat on his horse and went down. He went down a long way, as he had instructed him. He went down to the shore of the sea, as he had instructed him. He saw a very large stone. He put his hand under the stone and found the bit of a mare. He put it in the sea carefully and the mare of the seas came out. He sat on her back. She said ‘I shall burn you in the sun, from the fire of the sky, the sun’. He said ‘I shall go down under your belly’. She said ‘I shall take you down into the depth of the seas’. He said ‘I shall sit on your back’. He continued like this, until she submitted to him. She said ‘What do you want?’ He said ‘Take me to the palace of ’6lkăze Bădal Sahare’. So, she flew and took him to that place. She saw a palace and it was spinning, as he had said. There were seven corners on it. On each corner there was a dove. He had a bow and arrow (typical) of that time, is that not so? He shot one, twang, and hit it. Another one came round. The palace stopped. This ’6lkăze Bădal Sahare knew that he was coming. She had sent her brothers to the mountain hunting ‘Go off hunting!’, since she also wanted to marry, poor soul. He went up towards her and she said ‘Quickly, quickly, so that my brothers do not catch you’. She came with him. ‘Where to?’ His mare of the seas was ready. He sat on the back of the mare, put her behind him and (they went) across the seas. Now, the stones told her brothers that he had take ’6lkăze. The trees said to her brothers that he had taken ’6lkăze. They ran home and found that the palace was empty. They looked at the sea and saw the mare of the seas taking away ’6lkăze. They said ‘Go, you have taken her. Let her be permitted to you. You have taken her with your own force’. They went back and conceded her. She said ‘Where are you taking me?’ He said ‘I am not taking you for myself. I am taking you for this vagabond’. She said ‘Any man is forbidden to me except you’. She said ‘Any man is forbidden to me except you’. He said ‘Well, this is the story’. She said ‘You take me there. I’ll make a plan. Let’s see if we can kill this man. What should we do? We shall kill him’. He said ‘I have tried. I have tried to strike him. I struck a spear on his head, but it did nothing. I lunged a sword into him, but that did nothing’. She said ‘Leave him to me. I’ll deal with him’. He took her on the way and they arrived at the palace. The vagabond had gone out to hunt. He came back with a tree on his shoulder, full of wildlife, including wolves, foxes and rabbits. When he killed them, he put them (on the tree) and brought them home. He was a demon. He was happy to receive them. He showed them extraordinary respect. They remained two days there. He and the woman, that is ’6lkăze and the young man, made an agreement. She said ‘Don’t go and leave me, young man’. She said ‘I shall find out where his strength is, and how we can prevail over him so that we can finish him off, then I shall come with you’. Now, she became the wife of that vagabond. Every day she came with a pretext (to ask him) ‘Where is your strength? Where is your spirit? How do you live?’, I don’t know what (else she asked), she is woman! Everyday he would say ‘One day (I shall tell you)’. One day he said ‘My strength is in this broom’. She took the broom and put it in the fire, but nothing happened. She said ‘No, you have mocked me’. Your strength is not in that broom’. The next day he came and said ‘My strength is in another piece of wood. The next day she took that piece of wood and burnt it, but nothing (happened). She said ‘Look, I’ll tell you. You are mocking me. You don’t trust me. I am your wife. If you do not reveal to me in what your spirit lies and how you live, I shall not stay with you a single day longer’. He said ‘Look, I’ll tell you. My spirit is in a wild ox, in its chest there is a box. In that box there is a sparrow’. He said ‘That sparrow is my spirit. They must not kill that wild ox and take that sparrow. If ever that sparrow dies, then I shall die’. He said ‘That wild ox, moreover, will not die, unless three arrows of a bow and arrow are produced from the anvil of Egypt. Three arrows produced from it—by this it will die’. He went away and the young man whom she loved came. He said ‘So, what is the story?’ She said ‘By God, the story is this’. She said ‘This anvil of Egypt will not split’. He said ‘I shall split it’. She said ‘How?’ She twisted off one of her hair locks and said ‘Go for three days until you make an agreement with that man. Say to him “I shall work over this anvil until it splits. If it splits, you will produce three arrows and bows from it. If I do not split it, I shall work over it for free”. She said ‘Every day work over it from morning until evening. Twist this lock of hair like this. Don’t worry, go and sleep’. He went off and made inquiries, and found that anvil of Egypt. He made a contract with him (the owner). He said ‘I shall (work) over this for free. If I split it, you will produce for me three arrows from it. If I do not split it, I shall work over it for free’. He said ‘Man, you are wronging yourself. Who can break it?’ He said ‘By God, it is so. If I split it, you will give me three arrows and a bow. If not, nothing’. He said ‘Fine. Get to work!’ He worked every day every day, from morning until evening. In the evening he rubbed the lock of ’6lkăze on the anvil and went away. One day, the second day, the third day, in the morning, in the early morning, he heard a bang—it was split. He went (to look). He got up in the morning and went (to look) and saw that it was split. Then the owner of the anvil of Egypt made three arrows from that anvil of Egypt. He (Bazəkko) then returned. The vagabond used to go to the mountains in the day and come back at night. He (Barzəkko) went to ’6lkăze in the day-time. He said ‘I’ve come back and here are the three arrows of a bow’. She said ‘Look, in this mountain there is a spring of water. This wild ox once a day goes down to the spring of water and drinks water. Go and lay down a woolen mat. Take some tar’. She said ‘Put it in the water and put the tar on it. The water will stop flowing, the water will not come out. Put some wine further along’. She said ‘This ox will come and see that there is no water. It will smell the odour of the wine and not drink. It will go to the mountain, then come back again. In the end it will be forced to drink and will become drunk from the wine. It will come to sleep’. She said ‘At that time, strike it with those arrows and a bow. You will kill it and it will die. Slaughter it and open up its chest. The box, a box like this’ She said ‘take it from his chest and bring it to me’. He went and took them, together with wine to that place. He saw the spring. He pressed it down, put down tar, the woolen mat and tar. The water stopped flowing. He put some wine further up from them. He positioned himself. He dug a place to hide. He hid. Then that wild ox came to drink water. It did not find water. It went and sniffed, and smelt the odour of wine. It did not drink it. It went again to the mountain. It was thirsty and came back again, but again did not drink. The third time it drank. It drank and felt dizzy. It became drunk. That man (Barzəkko) was waiting in ambush there. He struck it with three arrows of a bow and it fell. He went and slaughtered it, opened its chest and found a box, small like this. He took it, brought it back and gave it to ’6lkăze, to the woman whom he had brought. He said ‘’6lkăze, here it is’. She said ‘Thank you very much’. When he struck the wild ox, that vagabond felt it and shivered. He was like this, as if he were ill. He came back home ill. She said ‘Ah, what is the matter with you?’ He said ‘I don’t know. I don’t know what has happened to that wild ox, whether it has fallen on a rock, whether a thing such as that has happened to him. I don’t know what is going on. Now I am very ill’. He said ‘I have never been ill like this’. He laid down a bed and went to sleep. She opened the box and said ‘Here is a sparrow’. She seized it and moved its shoulder like this, he also shook his shoulder. She pulled apart its head and its shoulder and threw everything down. At the same time he also died. Her husband (to be) came back, the one who had brought her. She notified him and he came back to the house. He took her and he remained there for some time. He took her and went home. He went to the home of his father. His father was a king. There was a battle in the town, a remarkable event. He had put his (Barzəkko’s) wife in a certain place. There was a house (there). He went and said ‘What is happening? What is happening?’ They said ‘By God, this king had a son. He brought back his wife. When they went and brought back forty wives, he brought back his wife. The king loves his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son. The wife of his son does not accept him. Those forty wives are all sisters and are against this thing. The king is confounded and says “I must marry this girl”. He sends people to the palace. Every day they fight (attempting) to seize the girl, seize the girl and bring her to marry the king, his father. His father wants her to marry (him)’. His father was the king. Now, he went off and became a servant of the king. He changed his clothes and became a servant of the king, giving water to the horses. Every day they would go out to fight. ‘What is happening?’ He (a bystander) said ‘(They are going) to the palace’, in which there were forty girls, her sisters. He said ‘What is in the palace?’ He said ‘By God, there are forty girls, the daughters-in-law of the king. The husband of a young girl among them has gone out into the world and the king wants to marry her. They are protesting against him’. He said ‘Well, cannot all these people who are going (to fight) prevail against the forty girls? Everyday an army of riders on the back of horses goes (to fight), horseman. Cannot they prevail against forty girls? I am going to bring her’. Word reaches the king. Word reaches the king, he (a courtier) said ‘King, may you be in good health, the servant who gives water to the horses has said “I shall go and take her”’. He said ‘Send for him and let him come’. He went and he said ‘What do you want?’ ‘King, may you be in good health, in all there are forty girls here, they are women, how is it that you cannot prevail against them? I shall go.’ ‘Give him a horse. Let him go tomorrow morning’. The next day he took a horse, sat on its back and went off. ‘Hey, I am so-and-so, come on, come out! Whoever wants to fight with me, let him fight with me’. They started saying to one another ‘Sister, a man has come out, he is shouting saying “Whoever wants to come and fight with me, let him come and fight with me”’. One girl went out. She said ‘I shall go out’. She went out and fought and fought, morning and evening. He did not want to strike. In the evening, at sunset, she ran away and entered the palace. He struck his sword on the neck of the horse on whose back he had come and killed it. He went to the king. He said ‘King, may you be in good health, what kind of horse did you give me?’ He said ‘What do you want?’ ‘Give me a good horse and I shall seize those girls’. He said ‘Fine’. He said ‘There is a horse that for these five years nobody has been able to get near’. Then he (Barzəkko) said ‘What horse is it? Where is it?’ He said ‘It is in such-and-such a place, in such-and-such a house’. He said ‘We even give food to it through the window’. He (Barzəkko) said ‘King, may you be in good health, give it to me, I shall go up (and ride it), surely it will not eat me, surely it is not a lion. It is a horse, not a lion. He (the king) said ‘This is the key. Off you go’ He knows it, (since it is) his own horse. He knows where his own horse is. He said ‘I don’t know where that house is. Send a man with me’. He sent a man. He said ‘Go, show him’. Now, when they went up and arrived, he said ‘Look, there it is. That door is the one of the horse’. He went up and opened the door of the horse, the door of a basement stable. The horse came moving his ears like this, intending to strike him. He put his hand like this on the snout of the horse. He said ‘Poor creature, don’t you know me anymore? Although I have been away in the world for these five years, don’t you know me any more?’ Now, the horse stood still, he knew he was his master. The horse stood still. He cleaned his horse. The poor thing had been there for so long, without being groomed or cleaned, nothing. He put a saddle on it. In the morning he sat on its back and went out. The horse had not seen the sun for so long and it flew off. He went down and made a circuit around the palace. He said ‘Hey, come here! Yesterday I came and fought with you. I have come also today. Not one of you, don’t come out one by one. Five, six, ten come out. All of you come out!’ His own wife was the youngest. She said to her sisters ‘My sister, I shall go out’. She went out. Then she fought in the reception room, she and her husband. The poor thing did not know that he was her husband. She fought and struck. She struck and he defended himself, she struck and he defended himself, until sunset. At sunset she ran off intending to enter the palace. His horse was strong. He held the door fast. He held the door fast and lifted up his hair. He said ‘You fool, don’t you know me? Don’t you know my horse?’ Then she shouted to her sisters. She said ‘Come! He is my husband. He is my husband’. Then all her sisters came down, how many they were! There was a party. He went into the palace and there was a wedding. In the morning the young man got up. He went out onto the roof and shouted. He said ‘Whoever supports me, let him bring a bundle of wood and put it at the door of my house. Whoever is behind the king, my father, put a bundle of wood before the door of the king’. Now, many people brought wood and put it before his door—they knew what the story was. He said ‘Bring the king! Bring him and all his ministers here and burn them!’ He brought them all and killed them. He took his wife and his brothers, and he became king in place of his father. I have left it there and come here.