Northern Pomo Phrasicon

if you want to speak another language, you have to suck tongues
Edna said, “Old Indian women would say that to us all the time. We’d make a remark about not being able to understand another dialect and we’d laugh at the old ladies when they’d say that to us. I never was able to tell if it was a joke or not, whether we should or whether it was done or not!”

du: janon daʔadin meʔ ma mu:l haba: t̪'oxale nanway

du:

jano

-n

daʔa

-di

-n

meʔ

mu:l

haba:

t̪'o

-xale

nanway

other

speak

-ing

want

-present

-ing

char.

you

that

tongue

suck

-should

disc.mrkr.

if you want to speak another (language), you have to suck tongues
Edna said, “Old Indian women would say that to us all the time. We’d make a remark about not being able to understand another dialect and we’d laugh at the old ladies when they’d say that to us. I never was able to tell if it was a joke or not, whether we should or whether it was done or not!”

kawina:myajul t̪'ot̪'okan
	kawi	-na:m	-yajul	t̪'o	-t̪'o	-ka	-n
	child	-acc.	-acc.	mother's milk	-nurse	-cause	-ing
the baby is nursing the baby is being breastfed the baby is being made to suckle
ES

baakayajul t̪'ot̪'okan
	baaka	-yajul	t̪'o	-t̪'o	-ka	-n
	cow	-acc.	nurse	-redup.	-cause	-ing
the cow is being fed (from its mother's udder) the cow is being nursed the cow is suckling
ES

baaka hoʔya:ʔ t̪'ot̪'on
	baaka	hoʔ	-ya:ʔ	t̪'o	-t̪'o	-n
	cow	small	-nom.	suckle	-redup.	-ing
the small cow is nursing the small cow is suckling
ES