Problem:IOL/2004/i1/en

Consider the following sentences in Kayapo language (printed in Latin transliteration) and their English translations:

1.	Atoro kêt.	You are not dancing.
2.	Ba mẽ mẽ anhê.	We are decorating you guys.
3.	Ba rê.	I am swimming.
4.	Ga iku.	You are devouring me.
5.	Ga mẽ to.	You guys are dancing.
6.	Ije mẽ akuru kêt.	I am not devouring you guys.
7.	Mẽ aje inhêrê kêt.	You guys are not decorating me.
8.	Mẽ irêrê kêt.	We are not swimming.

(a) Translate into English; if you believe that some sentences have several translations, give all of them:

(b) Translate into Kayapo:

12.	You guys are not devouring us.
13.	We are not decorating you guys.
14.	We are dancing.
15.	I am devouring you.

⚠ ẽ and ê are specific vowels of Kayapo. Kayapo is an Indian language (Ge family). It is spoken by some 4000 people in Brazil.

—Peter A. Zubkov