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13. Ot sit asawan chit natoi 
issapon lumawa si simphuyan. 
Ot sit payau chit natoi nampa- 
yau chit anakna. 
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 
ABOUT THE ITNEG OF ABRA 
1. ftnoeg ta kasigudan na ta-o 
di Abra. Dad kodil dangi kiu- 
ti kan dad buok dangi ataddo 
kan nangisit. 
2. Daddi babai-ye agikkuada 
ta batek aglikmot kandi ulo, 
ima kan daddi tengnged dangi; 
ket daddi lalaki-e agikkuada ta 
ayabong aglikmot kandi ulo 
dangi, kan barikoes kan baal 
aglikmot kandi sikoet dangi kan 
agsaklitda ta immoko kandi ba- 
rikoes dangi. 
3. Daddi lugak dangi na- 
appia nga kapas ket abuenda 
payen daddi lugakda nen. 
Daddi ayabung dangi ma-appia 
nga ukes ta malit-i kayo. 
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. issapon man-illong did not rest; it appears that while Gin. uses issa, 
as a negative particle in connection with verbal forms ( issaak pon 
man-illong I do not rest, issacha pon lumawa they do not go out), 
Bal. uses instead achi (almost adzi) : umachik, umachika, uma- 
china umillong I do not, thou doest not, he does not rest; in Sal. texts 
we find: achina makakus he could not walk, and issanchce itchon would 
not feed. 
phoyoi sit lap-dt chit lophon, this probably ritualistic structure is known 
by the special term bagong and was said to be destined to protect 
the grave against rain. 
1. kasigudan origin, beginning, birth, thus kasigddan na ta-o may also 
mean “native people.” 
2. agikkuada put-they, compare Ilk. ikua what is put in some place. 
baal gee-string, Ilk. badg. 
sikaet loins; the mixed vowel in this word, as in itnceg, barikoes, is 
short and similar to the one in French neuf; when long, it resembles 
eu in French peur. 
