Celebrating Yi Language

 

Contents

1. An Yi Song

2. A Story in Yi Language

3. English translation of story 

4. English Practice Exercises accompanying story

5. Common Expressions in the Yi Language

6. Contributers

7. Notes

 


1. An Yi Song

 Download the recording by Ji Bu Re Ha Mo - 653.5 KB

 

2. A Story in Yi Language

 Download the recording by Ji Bu Re Ha Mo - 841 KB

 

3. English Translation of Story 

When I was young, one day there was just my father, my brothers and I staying at home. My mother had gone to my grandmother's home. During the day, my father took my two brothers to have dinner in the home of one of my uncles and left me at home. I felt sad. When my mother got back, I told her that my father loved the boys and didn't love me. All of them laughed at this. After that, they always take me everywhere with them.

   

4. English Practice Exercises

(Coming soon.)

 

5. Common Phrases in the Yi Language and draft translations

Yi Recording

Chinese

Tibetan

English

Transcribed using Pinyin

 

吉祥如意

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།

Best wishes.

nzi mūo ge nī

 

你到哪里去?

ཁྱོད་ག་ན་འགྲོ 

Where are you going? 

ni ka bbū

我回家。

ང་ཁྱིམ་ལ་འགྲོ་ལེ་ཡིན།

I'm going home.

nga yī gu bbū

 

6. Contributers

Yi Name

Chinese Name

English Name

Activity

Ji Bu Re Ha Mo,

吉布热哈莫

李梅

Meloly 

Recorded song, story and phrases, 06/2010

translated story into English, 11/2010

  

彭加华 Jon Lambert Editorial assistance.

 

7. Notes

- This page was last updated Nov. 13, 2010.