19, 2 
18. Ot sit asawan chit nat6i 
issapon lumawa si simphiyan. 
Ot sit paydu chit nat6i nampa- 
yau chit anakna. 
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13. And the wife of the dead 
man did not go out for one 
month. And the rice-field of 
the deceased became the rice- 
field of his children. 
TINGGIAN (ITNEG) OF ABRA (PENARUBIA) 
MEPANGGEB TA ITNEG DI ABRA 
1. ftneg ta kasigidan na ta-o 
di Abra. Dad k6dil dangi kii- 
ti kan dad btiok dangi ataddo 
kan nangisit. 
2. Daddi babai-yé agikkuada 
ta batek aglikmét kandi ulo, 
ima kan daddi tengnged dangi; 
ket daddi lalaki-é agikkuada ta 
ayabong aglikmét kandi ulo 
dangi, kan barikes kan baal 
aglikmot kandi sikcet dangi kan 
agsaklitda ta immoko kandi ba- 
rikes dangi. 
3. Daddi lugak dangi na- 
appia nga kapas ket abuénda 
payén daddi lugakda nén. 
Daddi ayabung dangi ma-appia 
nga ukes ta malit-i kayo. 
ABOUT THE ITNEG OF ABRA 
1. The Itneg are the original 
people of Abra. Their skin is 
brown and their hair is long 
and black. 
2. The women put on beads 
around their heads, hands, and 
necks, and the men put a tur- 
ban around their heads, and a 
girdle and gee-string around 
their loins, and they suspend 
the short bolo from their belts. 
3. Their clothes are made 
of cotton and they weave also 
their clothes themselves. Their 
turbans are made of bark of 
the balete tree. 
12. issépon man-illong did not rest; it appears that while Gin. uses issd 
as a negative particle in connection with verbal forms (issdak pon 
man-illong I do not rest, issacha pon lumaéwa they do not go out), 
Bal. uses instead achi (almost adzi): wmachik, uwmaechika, uma- 
china umillong I do not, thou doest not, he does not rest; in Sal. texts 
we find: achina makakua he could not walk, and issénche itchan would 
not feed. 
phoyoi sit lap-dt chit lophén, this probably ritualistic structure is known 
by the special term bagong and was said to be destined to protect 
the grave against rain. 
1. kasigidan origin, beginning, birth, thus kasigtidan na td-o may also 
mean “native people.” 
2. agikkudda put-they, compare Ilk. ikud what is put in some place. 
badl gee-string, Ilk. badg. 
siket loins; the mixed vowel in this word, as in ftneg, barikes, is 
short and similar to the one in French neuf; when long, it resembles 
eu in French peur. 
