Problem:IOL/2006/i4/en

IOL 2006 Problem #4 Udihe
Here you see phrases in the Southern (Bikin) dialect of the Udihe language in Roman transcription and their translations:

(a) Translate into English:

(b) Translate into Udihe:

(c) Do you think the following phrases are possible in Udihe:

If so, translate them. If not, explain why.

(d) Translate the following phrases into English and explain how their meanings differ:

⚠ ŋ,  '  are consonants, ä is a vowel. The colon indicates the length of the preceding vowel. Udihe is a Tungus-Manchu language; it is spoken by no more than 100 people in the south of the Russian Far East.

—Boris Iomdin