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Coyote and Turtle, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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4. Coyote and Turtle as told by Charles Smith
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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"Are you called Turtle?"

(4.27)[27]
"Hándí Ts'isteeł hóńghé?"
goołndiná'a.
"Are you called Turtle?"
he said to him.
 
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(4.27) Linguistic Notes

hándí is apparently a combination of the interrog. pronoun há- and ndí, the 2nd person independent pronoun.

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