Yeláwel híkw te lá:léms te sqá:q.

The little brother’s house is bigger.

Yeláwel híkw te lá:léms te sqá:q means ‘The little brother’s house is bigger.’ (literally ‘More big (is) the house of the little brother’).

Vocabulary and Pronunciation

This phrase combines:

• yeláwel híkw – bigger (lit. more big (is)…)
• lá:lém – house
• sqá:q – young sibling (can be brother or sister)

Audio: Elizabeth Herrling
Note: this is a normal sentence in Halq’eméylem, but the audio has been cut from a longer phrase, which slightly affects Elizabeth’s pronunciation.

Structure

The structure of this phrase is as follows:

Note that there is no word for ‘is‘.