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Latitude

25.234

Longitude

96.9165

Start Date

2017-02-02

End Date

2017-02-02

Translation (Rita Seng Mai) The second story is about otters which lived in water and gibbons with long tail which lived on mountain. They made friends. While they made friends, the gibbons told, "My friends, otters which live in water, we, gibbons, will bring bamboo shoots when you die". Then otters also told, "My friends, gibbons, we, otters, will bring big fish when you die". Then when the gibbon which lived on mountain was dead, the otters couldn't bring any fish since it was rainy season, water level was increased and water was not clean enough to find fish too. And when an otter was dead, since it was winter and there didn't grow any bamboo shoots, the gibbons couldn't bring any bamboo shoots. Then they couldn't keep the promises they had made when they made friends. Our elders usually say that if someone is dead in an unexpected time and we can't afford to help, then we couldn't keep promises no matter how we have made promises. Transcription (Lu Hkawng) No. 2 hta gaw, hka kata kaw nga ai Sharam hte htaw bum kaw nga ai, Shara-la ngu ai i, nmai galu re ai dai yang gaw, jinghku hku ma ai da. Jinghku hku re gaw, E hka kata kaw nga ai Sharam e nang si ai shaloi gaw, anhte lagan ni gaw, kawa makru gun sa na yaw nan poi hta ngu ai da. Re gaw sharam gaw gara hku ngu i nga yang she, E Lagan e nang si ai shaloi gaw, anhte Sharam ni gaw Nga kaba kaba gun sa na yaw ngu da. Rai yang gaw Htaw !! bum de nga ai Shara si ai shaloi wa, Nga, Sharam mung Nga langai mung n mai lu, lanam ta hka kaba jan gaw hka amut san jang gaw, Nga rim n lu, hpa n-gun, ren she Lagan wa mung Sharam si ai shaloi wa, makru ngu na yang ngu ai wa, ginhtawng ta rai jang gaw Kawa makru n kru sai gaw, Rai jang gaw Makru hpa ngun re nna, Shang grai jinghku hku ai yang a ga sadi hten mat wa ai i da. E kade mi ga sadi tawng da tim mung, nmai byin ai ten hta si mat wa jang gaw i, hpa n lu galaw ai nga nna Salang ni hkai ma ai.

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