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Vol 2 No 2 Spring/Summer 2005</P></b>
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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="+1" face="arial,helvetica,courier" COLOR="#653500">Learning Domari: A Translation Exercise</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN="CENTER"><b><FONT COLOR="#653500">by Donald Kenrick</FONT></P></b>
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Have you read all the Domari lessons so far? Here is a story to keep you going. I have separated the suffixes with a hyphen the first time they occur. More grammar to come in a later number of <I>Kuri</I>.
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Gar-om Rihyata.<BR>
Laherdom Qlar-eni pand-asma.<BR>
Mind-end-im, ferendim,<BR>
par-de kiyakom u parde mneshim taran zerd,<BR>
Bagerde siriom lau ma laherde kajjeni ar-indi pandasma.<BR>
Laherdend-san Qlare, nas-re.<BR>
Shtaldendom tate qara-sta, pardendom, nirdendom ahlom-ka.<BR>
Pardendom ahlom, gare minjim tmaliesta.<BR>
Ktib-kerdas xatak tilla-tmalieska.<BR>
Penda gorandele Qlaranka.<BR>
Ktif-kerdendsan u nandendsan u tirdossan tilla-tmali elhasma.<BR>
Nande Œad kiyakom u plen.<BR>
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<B>Vocabulary:</B>
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Rihyata = Jericho (Arabic Ar-Riha)<BR>
Qlar = Beduin<BR>
Zerd = a gold coin<BR>
lau ma (Ar.) =  if not)<BR>
kajja = tat = peasant, fellah<BR>
ahl (Arabic)<BR>
tmali = official<BR>
tilla-tmali (Lit, big official) = regional governor<BR>
ktib-ker (write) and ktif-ker (bind) are examples of  common word formation in Domari using an Arabic noun followed by ker- (do)<BR>
xatak (Ar.) = letter<BR>
Œad = (Ar.) <BR>
elhasma = irregular locative case of lihi (iron) and was (is still?) the slang word for "in prison"<BR>
plen = accusative of ple<BR>
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<B>Translation:</B>
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I went to Jericho.<BR>
I saw Beduin on the road.<BR>
They seized me, beat me,<BR>
took my things and took from me three gold coins.<BR>
They would have broken (lit. they were breaking) my head if they had not seen peasants coming.<BR>
The Beduin saw them, they ran.<BR>
The peasants lifted me on a donkey, they took me, they carried me to my people.<BR>
My people took me, they went with me to the local governor.<BR>
He wrote a letter to the regional governor.<BR>
He took horsemen to the Beduin.<BR>
They bound them and took them and the governor put them in prison.<BR>
They gave back my things and money.
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Now read the story aloud in Domari
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