Osu thet: ‘Wát’, x̲ét’e, ‘kw’e le qelqelí:ylt the, kwálx the mimel’ó:ylha?’

Osu thet: ‘Wát’, x̲ét’e, ‘kw’e le qelqelí:ylt the, kwálx the
mimel’ó:ylha?’ means ‘”Who (was it),” she said, “that wrecked, hid, the doll?”

Pronunciation

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling

Structure

This phrase has the following structure:

Notes

• Elizabeth says ‘said’ twice: first with thet, then with x̲et’e. The words mean roughly the same thing, and it is common to combine them like this in the language.
• A number of words here do not translate directly: ‘she’ is just implied, and there are no words equivalent to English ‘is’ or ‘was’.