Kuénto Yku̠ii - Fox Tales - T’un n ñuu N ú Tiaxín

Jul 17, 2026

Traditional animal story narrative centered on a dog, his owners, and a fox that steals chickens. The fox comes and takes the birds one by one, while the dog cannot bark and is blamed by angry owners who hit him. After losing strength from hunger, the dog searches for a sunny place, warms himself, and then encounters the fox, which asks what troubles him. The work includes Mixtec language lines and English narration.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages29

Reading Time45 min

Fox and the dog

The fox steals the chickens

The dog is blamed and punished

Hunger, weakness, and the sunny place

The fox asks the dog what is wrong

Kuénto Yku̠ii Fox Tales T'un n ñuu N ú Tiaxín Mixtec, Western Juxtlahuaca, English Animal Stories Kuénto Yku̠ii Fox Tales Traditional stories narrated by Serapia Matamoros Perea Images adapted from the “Arte para la Alfabetización en México”project, © 2012 by Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A. C. , used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: [http://creativecommons.org/l](http://creativecommons.org/l)icenses/by-sa/3 . 0/ . Mixtec, Western Juxtlahuaca, English Coicoyan de las Flores, Oaxaca, Mexico Copyright © 2021, J N Martin [http://creativecommons.org/l](http://creativecommons.org/l)icenses/by-nc-sa/4 . 0/ You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one . You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc. Íyo iin t̠ina, ra, ntée ntiuxí s n -n . There was a dog and his owners had chickens . Kíx yku̠ii kí'in-rí ntiuxí . Köxín̠i ñ t̠ina nt'y-ñ . Ku 'n ntiuxí, ku 'n ntiuxí, ku 'n ntiuxí . The fox would come and take the chickens . The dog didn’t know how to bark. The fox would take the chickens, one by one . K̠ixaá n yuví, x̠itǒ'o t̠ina ikán, ntúku '-n . Sâá-n xí'in- . Káni-n ñ t̠ina ."N chun kúú t̠ina yó'o íyo-rí köntá'y-rí? N ú ntiuxí, ra, ku 'n iin iin ntiuxí xáxí nti'i yku̠ii ntiuxí," káchi-n . The dog‘s owners began to get angry. They were mad at him . They hit the dog.“What is the point of having this dog if he doesn‘t bark? We‘re losing all our chickens, soon that fox will have eaten them all,“ they said. Kötáxi-n x̠itá ñ kuxi ñ t̠ina . Xí'̠i- s k . Kúlakó-ñ t̠ina köo míí kantieé-ñ , ntúva-ñ . They didn‘t give the dog tortillas to eat. The dog was so hungry. The dog lost weight and didn‘t have any strength. Ikán ku 'n-ñ n̠ix-ñ íyo-ñ n ú ntîí . Iin ntîí nts á-ñ na'a . Na'a n̠itvi kúú - kána ñ nt̠ií á k 7 á k 8 ntáa órakána ñ nt̠ií . Ikán íntu'ú-ñ , n ú ntîí . The dog went and found a sunny place to lay down . The dog warmed himself in the sun . The sun came up at around 7 or 8 and the dog was already laying there in a sunny spot. Ikán kna rí yku̠ii, ká'n-rí xí'in- ,"Na kee ntó'o-ún ñani-̠i, na kee ntó'o-ún íntu'ú-ún yó'o?Íyo tti ini-ún, n xa ntó'o-ún?" káchi-rí xí'in- . That’s when the fox came by, and he said,“What’s wrong with you, my brother, that you are lying here like this? You are so sad, what is going on?” he said to him .

FAQs

Why do the dog’s owners get angry?

They are angry because the dog does not bark while the fox steals the chickens, so they feel they are losing all of them.

What happens to the dog after the owners stop feeding him tortillas?

The dog becomes extremely hungry, loses weight, and gradually has no strength.

What does the dog do when he is weak?

He goes and finds a sunny place to lay down, warms himself in the sun, and later encounters the fox.

Jul 17, 2026

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