yeláwel éy te sqá:q

the little brother is better

Yeléwel éy te sqá:q means ‘The littler brother is better’.

Literally it translates as:’the younger sibling (is) more good’).

Vocabulary and Pronunciation

• yeláwel – more (see yelá:w)
• éy – big
• sqá:q – younger sibling (can be brother or sister, in this case ‘brother’ is understood from the context)

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Phrase structure

Here is a word-for-word translation of the phrase:

Note that there is no word equivalent to ‘is‘ in Halq’eméylem. Here tense is just understood from context.