Here is the Ikanirae Seru text from Conlang Relay 8. Many of the vocabulary items have not made it into my wordlist yet, but they are glossed.

ekaiti se   uomo yarai  ha   metani a
time   that evil people PAST pray   .
The time that evil people prayed.

ikeyumora ha   seru kenie a
teachers  PAST say  story .
The teachers told this story.

yarai  ha   tamoka  ireora tu reona a
people PAST believe words  be holy  .
People believed the words to be holy.

yuti ha   enai a
we   PAST hide .
We hid.

keko arai   ha   heko sikoku  yuti a
no   person PAST can  protect us   .
No one could protect us.

nara isikokura  ha   enai one  yuti a
so   protectors PAST hide with us   .
So the protectors hid with us.

nara neko arai   ha   seru esa  ma keyumora a
So   some person PAST say  this to teacher  .
So someone said this to a teacher:

"otu seru ma yuti ikesita se   yuti mosa   metani iroha o
You  say  to us   things  that we   should pray   them  !
�Tell us the things that we should pray!

uomo yarai  ha   metani koimu yuti enai a"
evil people PAST pray   see   us   hide .
Evil people have prayed to see us hide.�

ara keyumora ha   seru esa  a
but teacher  PAST say  this .
But the teacher said this:

"ataya tiyo nona metani ro yotu teteki  a�
god    hear all  prayer of you  already .
�god already hears all your prayer.�

nara uomo yarai  ha   nesatu okosa a
so   evil people PAST become angry .
So the evil people became angry.

ara keyumora ha   nesa  metani teteki  a
but teacher  PAST begin pray   already .
But the teacher had already begun praying.

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