A huna dɨ mɨdgar sa A huna ba ʉnanar tigi ma ga kɨn?

Tta Kom Shwenagɨ

Title: A huna dɨ mɨdgar sa: A huna ba ʉnanar tɨgɨ ma ga kɨn? በአማርኛ: ኤድስን እንዴት መከላከል ይቻላል?

Title in English: AIDS and How to Avoid It

Language: Komo, as spoken in Ethiopia

Original text and illustrations produced as a calender by

Société Internationale de Linguistique

Burkino Faso, in 1992 © and reprinted with permission.

Revised text by Robin Rempel, BTL, Kenya 2003 © English edition published in Great Britain in 1999 and revised in 2008 by

Mission Assist. © 1999, 2008

Translated into Amharic by: Simret Fekadu

Komo revised and edited by: Manuel A. Otero with Sumale Pogi and

Gerenga Tesfay.

Mother tongue translation workshop facilitated by REB Asosa/

Fekadu Deresa

Published by:Mao Komo Project: NMS Ethiopia

in consultation with SIL Ethiopia.

Publication date: November 2015

First edition, 200 copies

Permission is granted for non-profit reproduction and

other use of these materials.

Please send one copy of any books you produce to:

MissionAssist PO Box 257, Evesham England WR11 9AW

A huna dɨ mɨdgar sa A huna ba ʉnanar tigi ma ga kɨn?

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Gama hagagɨ wata ma dduargɨ tigi n dden gama paliagɨ gɨ yazʉ zop. Wata ma ddugɨ ɨ sok.

Hama madɨmgɨ gama bok, ʉm hakum.

Ɨ pog ba bokagɨ gɨ gaz bam shunanam sa.

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Aka ʉsha gɨ gaz bam gama arinam kɨmɨ.

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A dɨn da sokon mai? Tana kkaw? Huna da ʉlɨ ga edis dɨɨ, shɨgɨr ga kkʉpɨdʉ.

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A huna dɨ mɨdgar sa, gɨ dee da bbissirgɨ gɨ sa, a huna ba, tigimar.

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A huna dɨ swar shɨgɨr sa balanar yigi.

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Ɨ pogɨ kkassɨ a yiba dɨ arir sa ba huna dɨ, midin.

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App bbamit dʉ bbupp ɨ kɨmɨ, a huna ʉn ton ga at dɨ ɨ kɨmɨ.

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A huna gɨ ɨ ɨsh ba giba tonin gɨ bash.

Gɨ han, n mɨlassɨ da bishukɨke gɨ eren, lakimɨn pam.

Lɨɨlmo da yɨppʉkgɨke gɨ eren lakimɨn pam.

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A yiba dɨ kketar huna dɨɨ, gɨ ddishukagɨ bashin basa.

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A yiba dɨ kketar huna dɨ ʉlar ga edis, a gama hag, ʉn ton.

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A yiba dɨ kketar huna gɨ gama ushagɨ ɨ mada gɨ dde, bashin ton.

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A gama hagim gɨ kondom, a huna maata ʉn ton.

A tigimɨn ɨ sson, ma ekinʉm woluk.

Gɨ han, gɨ kkʉs bashin kʉshʉ.

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Ʉm gʉ giba bam bbʉgɨm ɨsh bʉm. Hagagɨ tan gɨ gazin gɨ washin zop.

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Ɨ kʉma ba ishagɨ bʉbʉn gɨ gaz wolkupp a gaz yiba gɨ dde zop.

Gɨ law ssɨlan kɨmɨ!

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