Childhood Activities

Muring talks about the lives of children today compared with when she was young in the Ba Kelalan dialect of Lun Bawang. The recording was made in Buduk Nur on 1st November 2017.

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00:00:02Maun, kerab kai anak
when we were young

00:00:08kerab a teh internet, telephone mecing bang bawang kai
when we didn't have phones and internet in our village

00:00:14kerab kai anak
when we were young

00:00:15me' meraut bang lati' kai
we went to play in the farms

00:00:17me' nemung bua' bang pulung
we went to collect wild fruit

00:00:20meraut raut tradisional
play traditional games

00:00:25tapi, mo, me' ngluwit lawid bang fa'
but, yes, we went to fish in the river

00:00:32me' nanam akep
go and collect snails

00:00:34beken kudeng anak nekinih
not like children today

00:00:37Ideh mileh meraut internet
they play on the internet

00:00:40telephone
telephone

00:00:42jadi masi' masa deh me' meraut bang pulung
so they don't have much time to play in the forest

00:00:47me' nekap irin
to gather wild vegetables

00:00:50kudeng kai anak maun
as we used to do

00:00:51jadi masi' buri' deh ke lun to'
so they don't talk much to people

00:00:55a deh mileh tuu pegayam dengan lun beken
they don't really know how to talk to other people

00:00:59kudeng antisocial
like they are antisocial

00:01:02mo
yeah

00:01:03roo' ramai kai kerab kai anak maun
we had a lot of fun as children

00:01:05mileh kai naru' luk kenen sendiri
we knew how to make our own food

00:01:07kerab taman tinan kai me' lati'
when our mothers and fathers went to the farm

00:01:09muli' kai
we went back

00:01:10kai sendiri' naru' luk kikid
and we made our own dishes

00:01:12naru' nuba'
and cooked rice

00:01:14kenen kai
for us to eat

00:01:15mo
yes