THE GREETING OF THE TIGRE PEOPLE
 
 
 "When have you left your country ?"
 
 "It is now our third [day]."
 
 - The greeting chiefly in the Mansa country [partly] following the Sillabario della lingua Tigre,
 
 A: "Hast thou passed the day well?"
 
 B: "May thy day be well! Welcome to thee!"
 
 A: "Mayest thou stay well!"
 
 B: "From where art thou?"
 
 A: "I am from Karan."
 
 B: "What doest thou tell?"
 
 A: "Nothing but good [things]."
 
 B: "May the good [things] be plenty, if God wills! Art thou well?"
 
 A: "May I see thy well-being!"
 
 B: "Art thou in good health?"
 
 A: "Praise be to God, I am well."
 
 B: "How are thy family and thy property?"
 
 A : "Praise be to God, they are all well. How is it with thee ?" ')
 
 B: "I have no trouble at all, praise be to God! Art thou also well?"
 
 A : "I have nothing to complain of. May I see thy well-being !"
 
 B: "Is all well there from where thou hast come?"
 
 A: "All is well."
 
 B: "May it be more so, if God wills! What doest thou tell?
 
 What doest thou see and hear from [other] sides?
 
 What news is told in the country?"
 
 A: "Nothing but good things."
 
 B: "May they give thee good things! Does it rain in the Ansaba country and are the crops growing [well] ?"
 
 A: "It is raining, and there is nothing better than its crops.
 
 May He make it continue to be well!"
 
 B: "Say, Father of Emar, what is the news about the government?"
 
 A: "It has said: 'Do not harm the trees!' Everything else is well; there is nothing [bad] that I have heard."
 
 
 
 
 
 i) Literally: "thou, what are thou like?"