dzanagu diyi ts'ika nakaasdał-la
	A long time ago, this woman, she was flirting around.
	Dzanagu diyi ts'ika nakaasdał-la.

	ʔut'i yi mikala-ʔii yadzani-ła
	And then her husband was suspicious of her.
	ʔUt'i mikala-ʔii yadzani-ła.

	ʔut'i di dis dis disay-la ʔat'iyi mikala-ʔii
	And then her husband went hunting.
	ʔUt'i disay-la ʔat'iyi mikala-ʔii.

	ʔut'i
	And then...
	ʔUt'i...

	ʔiyi tłich'a-ʔii
	...that dog...
	...ʔiyi tłich'a-ʔii...

	tłich'a tłich'a gunahi gudinish dzanagu
	...the dog used to be able to speak, a long time ago.
	...tłich'a gunahi gudinish dzanagu.

	ʔut'i
	And then...
	ʔUt'i...

	ʔat'iya ts ts'ika-ʔii xayisni-la
	that woman, this is what he said to him:
	ʔat'iya ts'ika-ʔii xayisni-la:

	ʔiyisi sikala ʔinodiyinihiguł
	"Don't you dare tell my husband...
	"ʔIyisi sikala ʔinodiyinihiguł...

	ʔiyi s si sitsa sich'iniʔona gulini ʔisni-la
	...that I have a sweetheart," she said.
	...ʔiya sich'iniʔona gulini," ʔisni-la.

	ʔut'i mikala-ʔii niniya-la
	And then her husband came back.
	ʔUt'i mikala-ʔii niniya-la.

	ʔut'i a tłayist'a ʔiyi tłich'a ʔii xaʔisni-la
	And then... right away to that dog... he said:
	ʔUt'i... tłayist'a ʔiyi tłich'a-ʔii... xaʔisni-la:

	ʔasa sits'aya-ts'i kuts'iyiya-la ʔisni-la
	"was it so / did it happen that someone came in to visit my wife, he said"
	"Did it happen that someone came in to visit my wife?", he said.
	"ʔAsa sits'aya-ts'i kuts'iyiya-la?", ʔisni-la.

	ʔoo ʔoo mits'inats'iniya-ʔaa ʔisni-la
	((ʔaa = ʔat'a, it was))
	"Yes, yes, someone came to see her," the dog said.
	"ʔOo, ʔoo, mits'inats'iniya-ʔaa," ʔisni-la.

	ʔut'i
	And then...
	ʔUt'i...

	ʔat'iya ʔat'iya ts'otsa-ʔii
	"ts'otsa" later corrected to "ts'ika"
	that old woman...
	ʔat'iya ts'otsa-ʔii...

	ʔa ʔu ʔiya ts ts'ika-ʔii
	that woman...
	ʔiya ts'ika-ʔii...

	ʔiya
	that...
	ʔiya

	dudinaats'ila-la
	she got beaten up.
	dudinaats'ilag-la.

	ʔut'i ʔat'iya dosa ʔiyi tlich'a ʔii xayiich'ay-di
	And then because of that, she went out angry at the dog.
	ʔUt'i ʔat'iya dosa ʔiyi tłich'a-ʔii-ts'i xayiich'ay-la.

	dina tsona
	Human feces...
	Dina tsona...

	yizak'a yis yizak'a yitsil-it'i(yi)
	she threw (a hard object) into his mouth
	she then threw into its mouth.
	yizak'a yitsil-it'iyi

	ʔat'iya guts'i
	And from that time on...
	ʔAt'iya guts'i...

	ʔut'i ʔat'iyi tłich'a xasni-la
	and then this is what she said to the dog:
	ʔut'i ʔat'iyi tłich'a xasni-la:

	ʔuwa doo guts'i
	From this point in time
	"From this time forward,
	"ʔUwa doo guts'i,

	dunagudinat-aa yisni-la
	dunagudinat-aa (contraction of ʔat'a) yisni-la
	you will not talk again," she said to the dog.
	dunagudinat-aa," yisni-la.

	ʔat'iyi guts'aata tłich'a duju nagudisnat-tí
	ʔat'iyi guts'aata tłich'a duju nagudisnat-tí (assimilation of consonant, from -hí)
	It is from that time on that the dog has not been able to speak again.
	ʔAt'iyi guts'aata tłich'a duju nagudisnat-hi.

	so the story is
	So the story is:

	this man hey he was suspecting his wife of uh of fooling around on him
	This man, hey? He was suspecting his wife of, uh, of fooling around on him.

	so he went hunting
	So he went hunting,

	and then uh so the lover came to the tipi hey
	and then, uh so... the lover came to the tipi, hey?

	and then uh she told it she told the do she said don't
	And then, uh, she told it, she told the dog, she said: "Don't..."

	don't tell my husband that you know that I have a lover
	"Don't tell my husband that, you know, that I have a lover."

	and then uh
	And then uh...

	so the husband came back
	So the husband came back,

	and then uh
	and then uh...

	right away he asked the dog
	right away he asked the dog,

	uh
	uh

	was there did someone come to the tipi?
	"Was there, did someone come to the tipi?"

	And the dog said yeah yeah somebody came
	And the dog said, "Yeah, yeah, somebody came."

	so he went and uh he uh uh
	So he went and uh... he uh... uh...

	uh he uh you know raised hell with his wife hey?
	Uh... he uh... you know, raised hell with his wife, hey?

	so his wife got mad
	So his wife got mad,

	and then she
	and then she...

	she went out of the tipi
	she went out of the tipi,

	and then she uh
	and then she, uh...

	she grabbed a human shit hey?
	she grabbed a human shit, hey?

	and put it in the dog's mouth
	And put it in the dog's mouth.

	and when she did that she told the dog
	And when she did that, she told the dog,

	from now from this day on
	"From now, from this day on,

	you're never ever gonna talk again
	you're never ever gonna talk again."

	the dog was the last animal to have a human voice
	The dog was the last animal to have a human voice.