----------------------------------------------------------------------- |----\ |----\ |-----| /----\ -------- |---| |---| | | | | | __| / \ | | | | | | | O | | o | | | | __ | |_ _| | | | | | / | | | --| | || | | | | | | | | < | / | | | || | | | | |--| | ____ | \ | \ | __| | __ | | | | __ | | |---| | o | | |\ \ | | | || | | | | | | | | || | | - | | | | \ \ | --| | || | | | | | | | | || | | -| |____/ |_| \__\ |_____| |__||__| |__| |___| |___| |____| |_| |-------| |-----| |-----\ |------| | | | | | \ | | | |---| | | | \ | ___| | |---| | | | || | | | | | | | | || / | |--| |-----| |---| |---| | |---| | | | / | | | | | | | | | | | | | \ | |--| | | | | | | | | | | | |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \ | |--| | | | | | | |___| |_____| |___| |___\ |______| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \_/ | | | \ / | | \ / | | \ / |_____| \__/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Breath of Fire IV Pabpab Language Guide v1.3 Wreated by Kamau http://www.rpgpalace.cjb.net mglanville@hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not use this file on your site without my permission. E-mail me at mglanville@hotmail.com if you would like to use it. You can also find me on MSN Messenger at the same address. Finally, you can find me on AIM. My username is kamauRPG ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS I. Updates II. Introduction III. Pabpab - English IV. English - Pabpab V. "Pukapuka" VI. Unknown words VII. Thanks to... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I. UPDATES ----------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.3 - 30th August 2005 Added the meaning of "kohl". Sorry this took so long to add, I'm really REALLY lazy. v1.2 - 7th April 2002 Added the meanings of "kain" and "saldine" and the credits section to thank the people that helped me with that. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- II. INTRODUCTION ----------------------------------------------------------------------- What is Pabpab? Pabpab is a tiny island village in Breath of Fire IV (a game by Capcom). The village is built in the trees and in it lives a man named Beyd and his family of pabpabs. Pabpabs are bizarre creatures about two feet tall and completely covored in shaggy hair with two large eyes gazing out. They have their own language which Beyd has begun to study and document, and Scias even has a go at speaking Pabpab at camp. Before you actually reach Pabpab you meet Popo, Beyd's wife (yes, he is married to a pabpab) on the forest road. She speaks to you in this language and you can try and guess what she wants and give her different things. However, because you have not yet reached Beyd's notes on the language it is difficult to know what she is actually saying. With this guide you can try and work it out and also work out what the pabpabs are saying (some of them tell you where you can find secret treasure). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- III. PABPAB - ENGLISH ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ain - during, a period ishi - east kain - tell, teach kairu - guide, teach ko - here, this kohl - go michu - secret nah - fish ni - you, that no - wrong, bad nosta - north pabpab - us paketo - but, still poto - more, amazing purechi - friend pukapuka - slowly, relaxed (also has a connotation of "What will be, will be") rikuku - medicine roi - rock, stone saldine - island, Saldine Island sanami - south santo - thanks sonna - sorry taan - time tatoru - dance temi - enemy, bad person treja - treasure ueshi - west ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. ENGLISH - PABPAB ----------------------------------------------------------------------- amazing - poto bad - no bad person - temi but - paketo dance - tatoru during - ain east - ishi enemy - temi fish - nah friend - purechi go - kohl guide - kairu here - ko, koh island - saldine medicine - rikuku more - poto north - nosta period - ain relaxed - pukapuka rock - roi secret - michu slowly - pukapuka sorry - sonna south - sanami still - paketo stone - roi time - taan teach - kairu, kain tell - kain thanks - santo that - ni this - ko, koh treasure - treja us - pabpab west - ueshi wrong - no you - ni ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V. "PUKAPUKA" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The pabpabs have a phrase which they like to say a lot. It is their philosophy of life in general and the phrase is "Pukapuka". Beyd's notes tell us that the phrase literally means "slowly" or "relaxed". The pabpabs use it to mean "What will be, will be" meaning that they lead carefree lives and are not really bothered about what happens as it is all left to fate. Beyd tells Ryu that "pukapuka" also means "Everything will be all right in the end" which shows that pabpabs are also quite optimistic too. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. UNKNOWN WORDS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes the pabpabs say things that are not in Beyd's notes and can confuse the player. Here is a list of words that I have noticed. Feel free to e-mail me if you spot any more of it you know what they mean. - kohl - pokko - pomita - teeruta ----------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. THANKS TO... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd like to give thanks to the following people for helping me in various parts of the Pabpab translation. Capcom - They created Breath of Fire IV and the language! Ralph Malein - Translation of "kain" - Translation of "saldine" Draggy - Translation of "saldine" Jason C - Translation of "kohl" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- END -----------------------------------------------------------------------