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Translation (Tu Hkawng)
The story I am going to tell is about an orphanage child and a group of young men (brothers-german). Once upon a time, there was a family which had many young boys and lived in a village. In that village, there was an orphanage young boy who lived together with his grandma as his parents had passed away. One day, they [ a group of young boys] and the orphanage planned to set up bird-trapped, and then they went out when they arrived at one tree, one boy from brothers German said, " I will set-up the bird trap here." Then, when they found another, one of the brothers-german said the same, and they kept on setting up on all the trees where the birds came to eat the fruits. As they had set up on all the trees, the orphanage child did not know where to set up his snare, so he just simply set up his snare on the ground of the tree. Then, the next morning, the brothers-german called the orphanage child, "Let's go...orphanage child, let us go and check our snares," they went in the early morning. As they went early, they saw that a deer was trapped at the orphanage child's snare. The deer was trapped on the ground snare, and subsequently, the brothers german's snare trapped a toucan as they set up it on the tree. Then, they untied the toucan and trapped and hung it on the orphanage child's snare. After that, they also took the deer and trapped it in their snare on the tree. Then, they went together again with the orphanage child to check their snare then the toucan was trapped on the ground. The brothers-german's snare was trapped with the deer, which only lives on the ground, not on the tree. After that, the orphanage child said, "You guys are bullying me, the bird should be caught in your snare, but why is it caught in my snare? It means you guys have changed it." Then, they threatened him, "Hey, orphanage child, you want to die or speak properly, how can we change it as we come together and check them, they're just like what you see." The orphanage child replied, "It is impossible," and then they were arguing, and soon later, they called the monsieurs to intervene. When they called monsieurs, most of all good monsieurs in the village were called by the brothers-german, the orphanage child did not know who to be his monsieur. The orphanage sighed, "As they asked all the wise men in the village," then he asked an old man who lived poorly in the outskirts of the village. He said, "Hey... granddad, please kindly help me." He said, "Today, the brothers-german is planning to kill me if I do not win this dispute." "They have already asked all the monsieurs who are well-spoken to represent them." "I do have any idea who to be called; therefore, I came here as I trust you to be my monsieurs," then the old man replied, "Aw...okay, you can go home, and I will come later." As the old man asked him to go home first, the brothers-german's monsieurs said, "Hey... orphanage child, When will your monsieur arrive?" I had already asked him, and he said he would come later as he lived alone. I thought he was still preparing to come here. The orphanage child said, "he will come soon", then the monsieurs of the brothers-german said, "Can you go quickly and ask your monsieur to come, we are wondering who you have invited?" Soon later, the old man came. The old man came with heavy perspiration, they said, "Hey... an old man, you have insulted us as if you are the orphanage child's monsieur." "You have made us wait the whole day, and you just came at this late time," then the old man," You guys are accusing that I am insulting you, actually I have been extinguishing tiredly the wildfire the whole day which kept on burning at the desert, I just successfully put out the fire then I come here immediately." After that, the monsieurs said, "Hey... we have never heard that the wildfire is burning in the desert, we only hear this today, you are the only one who is saying this nonsense, how can the fire burn on the sand." Afterwards, the old man said, "Um...a toucan which only flies in the sky trap on the ground snare, and a deer which only lives on the land trap on the tree snare, I only heard it today." After the old man said it, they did not need to say many words. After the old man said it, the orphanage child successfully argued the case. Hence, the monsieur mediated the case for both parties to achieve fulfilment, they gave the deer to the orphanage child and gave the toucan to the brothers-german and settled the case.
Transcription (Lu Awng)
Maumwi naw shawng hkai ga i jahkrai ma langai mi hte lalaw ma ni a lam hkai na. Moi kahtawng langai mi kaw ah ma la grai law lu ai htinggaw mi nga ai. Dai kaw gaw kanu kawa ni yawng si mat nna kawoi dwi hte sha re jahkrai ma la sha langai mi nga ai rai re nga ai, dai she lani mi na gaw jahkrai ma hte shanhte u hkam mahkam hkam sa na ngu, mahkam sa yang gaw hpun langai mi kaw mung lalaw ma ni langai mi ndai kaw ngai hkam na ngu. Oh ra langai kaw mung, ndai kaw gaw ngai hkam na ngu shan nau ni gaw la law ai re nga hpun shagu namsi u sha ai hpun shagu gu shanhte hkam kau jang gaw jahkrai ma gaw shi a singgau gaw kana nchye hkam, shi a mahkam e gaw kana nchye hkam she ah ga kaw hpun pawt kaw ra mi shachyen hkam kau da na hku rai re nga ai. Shaloi hpang hpawt gaw lalaw sha ni sa lo jahkrai ma e anhte hkam da ai mahkam sa yu sa ga lo ngu she jahkrai ma shi gaw lalaw ma ni gaw shawng manap jau jau sa da. Jau jau sa nna she dai jahkrai ma a mahkam kaw gaw jahkyi wa lu nga la ai da. Ga kaw rai na jahkyi lu nga la, re jang she shan nau ni gaw hto ntsa kaw hpun kaw hkam tawn ai hpun mahkam hkannau ni a mahkan kaw gaw hkawngrang u langai mi la la ai. Hkawngran dai e gaw hkannau ni raw la she jahkrai ma a mahkam kaw wa matep wa noi tawn ya. Dai jahkyi e gaw hpun ndung de na shanhte a mahkam kaw wa lu ai hku di tawn rai. Sa yu masai da sa yu yang gaw jahkrai ma mung bai sa rai na hkan hte rau sa yu yang wa, ah ga kaw gaw hkawngrang wa mi lu nga. Ntsa de lalaw ma ni a mahkam kaw gaw jahkyi ah ga de she nga ai baw jahkyi wa mi lu nga ai. Re jang gaw dai jahkrai ma gaw e ndai nanhte ngai e hpa ngu na dang sha ai, nanhte she lu la na nanhte ntsa kaw she pyen ai baw u wa mi nye a mahkam kaw ga kaw sa lu ai, nanhte galai la ai she re law ngu, jahkrai ma nang si mayu yang ai nga u law, anhte ganing rai galai na ya nang hte rau sa yu yang dai hku lu ai nga she rai yang mi, nmai byin ai ngu rai nna ga-law hkat yang gaw ya hkring gaw sa lang shaga wa masai da. Salang shaga yang gaw salang mare na salang la kaja ja yawng gaw hkan nau ni hkrai hkrai yawng shaga la kau, jahkrai ma gaw kadai mung nchye shaga sai da. Ga ya salang ni mare na myitsu ai yawng hkan hte hkrai shaga kau ai gaw ngu, mare shingnawm kaw na dingla langai mi dingla dai mung matsan mayen rai shi hkrai nga ai dingla she e jidwi e ngai e naw garum la rit. Dai ni gaw jahkrai, lalaw ma ni gaw ngai e ngai ntsun dang jang gaw sat kau na hku she hkyen nga masai. Salang kaba ai salang ninghkring chye tsun tsun ai yawng hkan hte shaga kau sai. ngai gaw kadai e nchye shaga ai ah jum ji nang e kam nna sa nngai lo ngu nna sa tsun yang gaw e e nra ai wa su, dwi la yahkring sa wa na. Wa magang su ngu na wa shangun da, oh ra lalaw la ni a salang ni gaw jahkrai ma rang ya na a salang gaw galoi du na re rai ngu. Yahkring sa wa na da law shaga gaw shaga da sai, shi mung shi hkrai re na hpa naw shajin ra ai nga sam ai. Yahkring sa wa na nga re, lau sa shaga la su lu na salang gaw kadai sha chye shaga nta e ngu nna shalep reng gaw hpang reng gaw dingla dai gaw sa wa sai da. Sa wa salat gaw grit rai na sa wa yang dingla dai e ga dingla nang gaw nang gaw jahkrai ma a salang re nga anhte gaw roi ai ga rai nga ndai. Shani ting wa la nga shangun nna mi nang gaw ya jan du hkra rai jang she sa wa gaw ngu, e nanhte ngai e nanhte e roi sha ngu da mu ngai le zaibru jang kaw sharaw hkru nga na dai wan san she shani tup wan sat ba ai tsawm ri she ya sat kau da lu nshe ndai de ya sa wa re lu ngu jang she, dai salang ni gaw e zaibru jang gaw wan hkru ai nga gaw galoi nna yu ai dai ni she na ga ai, nang chye nang re nna tsun ai she re, zaibru kaw mi galoi wanhkru na mi ngu nna shaloi she dingla dai mung um ntsa de she pyen ai baw u hkawngrang wa mi ah ga na sumgau kaw sa lu ai nga gaw ah ga kaw she sha tam sha ai jahkyi wa mi ntsa na hpun ndung de sa lung ai nga dai ni she mu na yu ai. Ngu nna sa tsun jang kaga hpa law law mung ntsun ra mat sai da. Dan ngu nna tsun jang, ndai jahkrai ma wa tsun dang mat nna shanhte shada myit pyaw na hku salang ni shada htingram ya, mi na jahkyi lu ai wa e jahkyi ya, hkawngrang ntsa de hkam ai ni e dai hkawngrang u ya di nna hparan tawn da ya ai nga dai maumwi langai mi rai sai.
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