Takat kau karawak kau midana muihka balna, the first settlers of Karawala

Abstract

Ulwa (Southern Sumo), one of the indigenous languages of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, has been researched and documented in recent years by the Ulwa Language Committee (CUDIUL), formed by members of the Karawala community. This work has been developed with the support of CIDCA and the Center for Cognitive Science and the Department of Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is to the coordinated work of these different entities that we owe the compilation of the present account, which without further ado we offer in its original Ulwa language and freely translated into Spanish. This is one of the first times that a text in the Ulwa language has been published in this form (this and other texts have previously circulated as limited-edition booklets).