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Conlang Relay 15/Terkunan

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by Henrik Theiling

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Text

Un Ful

Oserve tu kul balat, es unik. Tot mun deve vis le. Oserve tu le! No sulmentu les bal, ma a nos les kant i nsingre musik. Popre ornali no kupren le, ma ku kul stil de balat les popre trove urtime virtat oskur. Kandu les bal, les deven sopril.

Depost un kurt moment, les tuk nos cor i kumis present a nos sisasiun onest a soprepas spirt oman. Esku nos pos peven tant nevel de kul balator?

Popre ornali pos fik atensiun a movasiun de pede sulmentu i ngrul proposit vir de balat.


Smooth English

A Tale

Observe this dance! -- it is unique. Everybody must see it. Look at it! They not only dance, but sing to us and teach us music. Ordinary people don't understand it, but with that style of dance people find the ultimate hidden truth. When they dance, they become superior.

After a short while, they touch our heart and begin to show us the honest feeling to surpass the human soul. Can we reach the level of that dancer?

Ordinary people can just pay attention to the movement of the feet and ignore the purpose of the dance.


Etymologies

All Latin nominal forms are given in accusative case, from which Terkunan nominals usually derive. This final -M dropped early, but to make the words look more like Latin, it was kept in the orthographic presentation here.

Verbs are given in the infinitive, although the Terkunan form might have been derived from a different form.

NOTE: Only the Terkunan words and their Latin roots were sent to the next translator.

a
prep. AD to
atensiun
n. ATTENTIONEM attension
bal
v. BALLARE to dance
balat
n. BALL(ARE) + ATUM dance
balator
n. BALL(ARE) + ATOR dancer
cor
n. COREM heart
de
prep. DE of
depost
prep. DE POSTUM after
deve
v. DEBERE must, to have to
deven
v. DEVENIRE to become
es
v. EST to be
esku
adv. EST ECCUM QUIA {YN question particle}
fik
v. FACERE to do; to make, to create
i
conj. ET and
nsingre
v. INSIGNARE to teach; to inform
kandu
adv. QUANDO when
kant
v. CANTARE to sing
ku
prep. CUM with
kul
det. ECCUM ILLE this; that
kumis
v. COMMITTERE to begin
kupren
v. COMPREHENDERE to understand
kurt
adj. CURTUM short
le, l', 'l
det. ILLE the
le
pron. ILLE he, she, it, him, her, his, its
les
pron. ILLOS they, them, their
ma
conj. MAGIS but
movasiun
n. MOV(ERE) + ATIONEM movement
mun
n. MUNDUM world
musik
n. MUSICAM music
ngrul
v. IGNORARE ignore
nevel
n. NIVELLUM level
no
adv. NON not
nos
pron. NOS we, us, our
oman
adj. HUMANUM human
onest
adj. HONESTUM honest; real
ornali
adj. ORDINARIUM ordinary; simple
oserve
v. OBSERVARE to observe
oskur
adj. OBSCURUM hidden
pede
n. PEDEM foot
peven
v. PERVENIRE to reach
popre
n. POPULUM people
pos
v. POTESSE can, to be able to
present
v. PRAESENTARE to present
proposit
n. PROPOSITUM purpose, aim, goal
sisasiun
n. SENSATIONEM sensation, feeling
soprepas
v. SUPERPASSARE to surpass
sopril
adj. SUPERIOREM superior
spirt
n. SPIRITUM spirit, soul
stil
n. STYLUM style
sulmentu
adv. SOLAMENTE only, exclusively
tuk
v. TOCCARE > prov. tocar to touch
tant
adj. TANTUM such
tot
adj. TOTUM all
trove
v. TROPARE > prov. trovar to find
tu
pron. TU thou, thee, thy, thine
un
det. UNUM a, one
unik
adj. UNICUM unique
urtime
adj. ULTIMUM last, ultimate
virtat
n. VERITATEM truth
vir
adj. VERO true
vis
v. VIDERE to see

Abbreviations

n.
noun
v.
verb
adj.
adjective
adv.
adverb
conj.
conjunction
prep.
preposition
det.
determiner
prov.
Provencial
pron.
pronoun


Grammar

Terkunan is quite a typical Western Romance language, the most different feature being isolating morphology.

The standard word order is SVO, but in some sentences, the verb may be fronted for focus changes and in imperatives (the subject is usually not dropped in imperatives).

A 3rd person pronoun subject may be dropped, frequently with the verb 'es'.

Oblique objects are typically before the direct object, but there is no strict rule and they may well also follow.

Terkunan has optional definite and indefinite articles, which are often inserted to separate two noun phrases instead of to stress definiteness. The indefinite article is also the number word 'one'.

Number is not marked on nouns, but only on pronouns, articles, and number words. A typical noun phrase without article is, therefore, underspecified wrt. number.

Adverbs are usually fronted, but may also be in final position.

Adjectives usually follow nouns.

There are no compound verb forms in the text, so I'll drop anything about verbs.