Pater Noster in Siraya

Diameta ka tu vullum.

Our Father, who art in heaven

Lulugniang ta nanang oho.

hallowed be thy name

Maba tongal ta tao tu goumoho.

thy kingdom come

Mamtalto ki kamoienhu tu nai mama tu vullum.

thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven

Pecame ká cangniang wagi katta.

Give us this day our daily bread

Hamiecame ki varaviang mamemiang mamia ta varau ki tao ka mouro ki riich emitang.

and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us

Inecame poudangadangach souaia mecame ki litto.

and lead us not into temptation

Ka imhouato ta gumaguma kallipuchang kasasamagang, mikaqua.

but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

Amen

Müller p. 27 (Formosana) – J.L.
London p. 62 (Formosana) – J.L.
Chamberlayne p. 20 (Formosane) – auctoritate Jobi Ludolphi in Epistola ad Mullerum
Hervas p. 138 (Lingua Formosana)
Pantographia p. 86 (Formosan) – Orat. Dom. p. 62
Adelung Part 1 p. 580 n. 95 (Formosanisch) – Aus Rob. Junii Katechismus, Delft, 1645, 12.

J.L. refers to Hiob Ludolf. According to The pretended Asian : George Psalmanazar's eighteenth-century Formosan hoax, page 82, the text comes from a now lost Formosan reading book from 1645, prepared by Robert Junius.