Impuhuwa’, Taynan daa man (Sweetheart, am leaving you)

Impuhuwa’, Taynan daa man*

Nonnomom, adim hinhimhimongon

Linummu hi eta binumtikan

Inukuham an ipaliy momon

Te inalim di mahangaan

Din imbagan da ama i ina

Ha maonnoman kuma hi babuy

Ta makahidanda di maamung

Ahi matundan iha kahalta

Pangipatamtaman hi ginuyguy

Mu onaot bo on nun nangamung

Alyonon ta agge innunnudan

Di umaliyan tah tun ad Manila

Te ona’ gayam inhaphapitan

An kayma’id mahan ha inila

Inalim di ahi ta munbanngad

Nu nawaday mamanguluh iple

Mu maid nan hahaddon hi bayag

Numpohodananta di nunggopnad

Mu nonomnomo’ da amah’ boble

Mangitundu’ hi maphod an biyag

Miyunud a nu nanomnoman a

Mu ibatim di layam ya ukum

Ituluytay numpohhodananta

Mu mahapul maukat di pihhum

Ugalih din kanaman an nahamad

Ya mahangaan mu maanusan

Alpuwan di wagan di aammod

Nagidah et on ta mo nunhamad

Mabo’lay pihhu ot mahannotan

Mu wadan he’a hin on a mihnod

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The following is a translation by the author

Sweetheart, I’ll leave you now

Bear in mind, don’t act like you forgot

The reason we run away from home

You selfishly failed to offer the momon

For you said it is very extravagant

The one my parents asked for

A pig that requires six people to carry

So guests can have a generous fill

Then to be followed by a wedding celebration

Where we can treat our guests to the taste of intestines

But you made everything uncertain

I wish I had not consented

That we come here to Manila

For you simply swayed me over

As if I never knew a thing

You promised we will go back

When we have our first child

But none came, too much time has passed

Love is our foundation

But I yearn for my folks at home

Who I know could directs me to a good life

Come after me if you have wisdom

But leave behind your lies and selfishness

And we’ll continue loving each other

But you have to shell out your treasure

The hometown practices are long set

Maybe extravagant but bearable

A source of blessing from ancestors

And when done with and we’re in our married life

The money would be earned and replenished

But it is all up to you if you follow me home

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*This Ifugao version followed the form of an ode although the rough English translation didn't.  The poem was also read during the Panangbenga Poetry Reading as part of UP Baguio's Rambak Sining on February 20, 2014.

Limericks an Nalpu hi Muyung (Limericks from the forest)

Note: This set of limericks were also read in the Panagbenga Poetry Reading as part of UP Baguio's Rambak Sining on February 20, 2014.  A rough English translation by the author is at the last part of this article.

GAYUMMA

Gayyum-uh, gayyummu, gayyumna

Munayayyam tauh’ gayumma

Nan nipa’en hinlahing

Hamaon di nalaing

Mih'lam mu mahama’ damdama

Ifugao Name: Gayumma

BALANGBANG

Maadiyan di umipaaminul an balangbang

Te hinan muyung ya dinaladalan di inolwang

Mu adi iwili

Ta ume ihubli

Hi naarkusan an bale an balolandah’ nuwang

BUKTAYYON

Maphod an tigtiggon nan babayong hinan buktayon

Pohdopohdonan lani’lioodon, hanobhobboon

Mu adi umiagu

Hi inagang di tagu

Hiya nan bokon hidiye di e hawahawangon

 

Ifugao Name: Buktayyon

TANGLAG

Bumunga hi ay mihamihanglag

Tun maallutlutabbong an tanglag

Mu magabut

Te humabut

Hi mitanom hi tanud di holag

KABABBUY

Ibabbalen di uungay kababbuy

Punbalinon da hi dakol an babuy

In-inop ad uwani

Mu hana ’tun mangali

Puniyanamutyu ayay ginuyguy

Ifugao Name: Kababbuy.  The young rolled up leaves are played by village kids as 'pigs" in thie babbale (bahay-bahayan).  

GAYUMMA

My friend, your friend, his friend

Let’s play the gayumma game

A bit of it we hide

For the clever to find

Disguised but will nevertheless be discovered

BALANGBANG

Rejected is the relished balangbang

For in the forest, floodwaters stream through it

But it is not thrown away

For it is for sale

In the decorated house, it’s valued like cattle

Ifugao name: Balangbang

BUKTAYYON

It’s nice to behold the bee on the buktayyon

It loves to fly around and creep to it deep

But it doesn’t ease

Hunger of people

It is not worth looking for it all day

TANGLAG

It bears fruit that seemingly can be roasted

This flourishing stalks of tanglag

But it would be cut

So it won’t choke

What’s been planted to feed the family

Ifugao Name: Tanglag.  This is a cogon-like grass.

KABABBUY

The children got kababbuy in their playhouse

Making them into a lot of pig toys

That’s dream today

And may in the future

They bring home the true innards

Ahiboto' (An attempt at Children Poetry in the Ifugao Tuwali Language)

Ahiboto’

 (R.H. Kinnud)

Photo taken at Barangay Mompolia, Hingyon, Ifugao

Munamamlong day bimmoble

Hin pinumhod da nan page

Hintawon an nableyan

Dukduke kumay panganan

Nidadaan da moy binulyu

Gamulang ya hay labihhita

Nunhahapit day mun-uubbu

Nibaga nan katnay mabo’la

Algon en di boto’ hi apayo-payo

Bumuway aammod an pumito

Ipanguluwan nadan emamengo

An pahhunan day tulun di algo

Nan bale an pangiha’yatan

Ya way mibati mun-awwadan

Mangipaput hi way miwana

Hi mumbotok an nun-ahapa

Pati u’unga ya magali

Nu ahiboto’ ya immali

Muntu’yud di linalai

Mi’gawa day binabai

Photo taken during the harvest season in Mompolia, Hingyon, Ifugao on May 2012

Anihan

 (ni Richard H. Kinnud)

Photo taken during the harvest season in Mompolia, Hingyon, Ifugao on May 2012

Masaya ang mamamayan

Kapag maganda ang palayan

Ang pinagpaguran sa isang taon

Sana’y pagkain sa mas mahabang panahon

Handa na ang mga pantali

At mga gamit na pang-ani

Nag-usap na ang magtutulungan

At nasabi na kung magkano ang bayaran

Kapag araw mismo ng ani sa mga palayan

Maagang pupunta ang nakagugulang

Pangungunahan ng mag-aani ng para sa binhi

Uunahan pa ang pagsikat ng araw na hari

At sa bahay ng nagpapaani

May nakatokang mag-aasikaso

Sa pagkaing ipapamahagi

Sa mga taong maaga pay nagtatrabaho

Ang mga bata rin ay kasali

Kapag dumating ang tag-ani

Magbubuhat  ng ani ang mga lalake

Habang kasama sa palayan ang mga babae

Photo taken during the harvest season in Mompolia, Hingyon, Ifugao on May 2012

Ifugao Riddles

Do we (Ifugaos) have a word for 'riddles'?  If you happen to know, kindly share the word.  Thanks.

Anyway, here are some riddles in the Ifugao Tuwali language:

1.  Ulu  an manawwang an naoha,

Mu dakol di mata na.

2.  Ongal di toona

Dakol di matana

Manu’ di anona (Manuk di kanona)

Mu wi’itna on in-utana

3.  Gayang da hi ad daya

Mu adi mipato’(mipatok) hi luta

4.  Tubun bimmunga

Bungan timmubu

5.  Ma’id ha nanwik ihiya

Mu aganay dala

English translation

1.  A head that pop up alone

But  eyes are too many

2.  Has big mouth

Has many eyes

Chicken is its food

But vomits them out in the morning

3.  Their spear in the heavens

But cannot stand on the earth

4. Leaves that grows fruit

Fruit that grows leaves

5. Nobody has pierced

But keeps on bleeding

Kindly help improve the text with your inputs and additional riddles in Ifugao.  Thanks.