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Scheerer: Texts from Balbalasang-Gindang 
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PHYAIPHYAYASANG 
(Pattekyan) 
SACHAT IPHUAYAN NANGAYAU UD 
PATTEKYAN 
1. Sat osan ai-aikau iningkau 
chad Iphuayan nangayau ud 
Pattekyan. Awad kad chaton 
takun nampaipod Phuaya to- 
yumpuyu cha ot lima. 
2. Umachanicha man ud Pat- 
tekyan umillongcha yan ta 
mangancha ta payot naphilog- 
chan makapatoi si kancha. 
3. Umya lamong ot tai ining- 
kau osan layakin Xpattekyana 
ummoi mangayu-wot awad kad- 
ton ina nangayuwan siat kapo- 
ngaton chit umillongan chat 
phusoi. 
4. Ot mampokpok man sit 
awitonan kayu iningkau chad 
tumotoling-nga chingngoina ot 
manischung man chopya ining- 
kau chad mankakana taku. 
5. Nakitak si ogyatna ta sa- 
chit os-ossaan osya. Mangwa 
si silip ot ok-oyona chit chak- 
koya phyato-wot itopakna man 
chopya nipunta sit kawachan 
chat phusoi on mankakan. 
BALBALASANG 
(Patikian) 
THOSE FROM BUAYA GO ON A HEAD- 
HUNT TO PATIKIAN 
1. On a certain day there 
were men from Buaya going 
on a head-hunt to Patikian. 
As for those men come from 
Buaya they were thirty-five. 
2. When they came near to 
Patikian they sat down to rest 
a while and to eat in order to 
be strong to fight, as they said 
to themselves. 
3. However, there was a man 
from Patikian who had gone to 
cut wood and as for the place 
to which he had gone to cut 
the wood it was just above the 
resting place of the enemies. 
4. And while cutting his load 
of wood there were the sounds 
of talking people heard by him 
and when he looked down wist- 
fully there were people who 
were eating. 
5. Excessive was his fear for 
he was quite alone. He used a 
stratagem: he picked up a big 
stone and dropped it downhill 
hitting the place where the ene- 
mies were eating. 
1. nangayau, past of mangayau who goes headhunting. 
nampdipo, compare: Nampaipuam? Where do you come from? 
2. umachani one approaching, past ummacham. 
naphilog who or what is strong; a form with prefix ma does not exist. 
kancha means primarily “they say” or “said” hut probably also “they 
thought.” 
3. tai, also pronounced Ui or te. 
Ipattekyana, the final a is the connective particle. 
nangayu from kayu wood. 
kapongaton, for kapangaton? 
