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Text 004NAR Chicken and the Wallaby - Gulal.                       13.3.78
                                                                     
1. Mala    cudumac ca   dodo.                                               
Chicken wallaby with story.                                                 
2. Mala    cudumac ca   ale  wag   yelasin.                                 
Chicken wallaby with they canoe painted.                                    
3. Wag   yelimesi   ale  wag   sun-docobil   macas na nocob                 
Canoe paint SR   they canoe send it DR    sea   to go down DR               
ale  wag   tobimi   belesin.                                                
they canoe go up SR went.                                                   
4. Wak   na macas launo  bebelesin   fufu humei   mala    uqa na dodo
heeweceb     Canoe in sea   middle go SA       wind came SR chicken his   
tail hold DR                                                                
kom . . .
										
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Amele is a Papuan language, from the Gum fgamily. Mabuso stock, Madang
super stock of ther Madang-Adelbert range sub phylum

Texts deposited by Geoffrey Hunt/Eugene Loos in August 1986

The texts have been appended into one file for convenience. Each
has a header and is in interlinear form, including English paraphrase.

The following lists the texts by internal identifying number.
The three letter codes identify the type of text as follows
  BEH: Behavioural
  NAR: Narrative
  PRO: Procedural
  DIA: Dialogue
  EXP: Expository

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.ce |bAMELE-ENGLISH INTERLINEAR TEXTS|r

001BEH  Why I make copra.                             Naus       l4. 2.78
002NAR  How the New Church was Built.                 Liwa       15. 2.78
003NAR  The Chicken and the Birds.                    Gulal       6. 3.78
004NAR  The Chicken and the Wallaby.                  Gulal      13. 3.78
005NAR  The Story of the Yam.                         Gulal      16. 3.78
006BEH  The New Garden Prayer. . . .