The Coruman Language
Note: English translations of Coruman speech are rendered
in iambic pentameter.
Coruman is the lingua franca of the Scattered Worlds.
Alphabet
Grammar
-ra = plural
-en = possessive (attached to possessor, not possession)
-h or -sh = personification (i.e. "one who")
frequent use of compound words, as in German but even more
so
Verb Conjugation:
Present Tense:
| Person |
Singular |
Plural |
| First |
a- |
ara- |
| Second |
ay- |
ayra- |
| Third |
aw- |
awra- |
Past Tense: adds -ee suffix
Future Tense: adds -oo suffix
Numbers
Base six
If smaller precedes larger, multiply
If larger precedes smaller, add
0 = mar
1 = meh
2 = mee
3 = mow
4 = moo
5 = may
6 = neh
7 = nehmeh
8 = nehmee
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12 = meeneh
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36 = 6^2 = ter
216 = 6^3 = kaa
1296 = 6^4 = nun
7776 = 6^5 = chuk
46,656 = 6^6 = sim
279,936 = 6^7 = urta
1,679,616 = 6^8 = glath
10,077,696 = 6^9 = tukli
60,466,176 = 6^10 = sarha
362,797,056 = 6^11 = kemic
2,176,782,336 = 6^12 = deket
Ordinal numbers: add -bis suffix (i.e. nehmeebis = eighth)
Vocabulary
A B C D E F G
H I J K
L M N O P Q
R S T U
V W X Y
Z
- actinium = shantimowphel
- action = opih
- again = mehrk
- aid = meda
- alcoholic beverage = forlooh
- all = rosp
- aluminum = yyummehphel
- americium = utilmehphel
- and = weesk
- antimony = grenmowphel
- argon = kyarmeephel
- arrive = galb
- arsenic = grenmeephel
- astatine = myanmoophel
- at = bor
- awe = daav
- bad = ger
- barium = trismoophel
- battle = sebopih
- beam (of light) = li
- beauty = dirun
- beginning = ale
- being (existence) = keh
- berkelium = vyanmehphel
- beryllium = trisphel
- birth = melior
- bismuth = grenmoophel
- black = bitarzya
- boron = yyumphel
- bromine = myanmeephel
- but (however) = kur
- cadmium = loramehphel
- calcium = trismeephel
- californium = mebimehphel
- carbon = bitarphel
- carrying = tawla
- center = fekel
- cerium = ripthaphel
- cesium = naemayphel
- chaos = sarm
- child = kchen
- chlorine = myanmehphel
- chromium = fipantiphel
- clean = hiwit
- closeness (physical) = faevi
- cobalt = ibenphel
- cold = iph
- color = zya
- copper = abaphel
- correct = pehkre
- coruman language = corumaentor
- council = cora
- covering = baat
- crystal (jewel) = el
- curium = orlamephel
- curse = nar
- dance = kristen
- day(time) = ganrem
- death = ganellan (archaic: geleda)
- desire = feelen
- despair = gilap
- destruction = den
- (diminutive suffix) = -hen
- dream = mity
- driver = peytesh
- dysprosium = mebiphel
- earning = royshymw
- earth (soil) = maela
- eat = olan
- einsteinium = notimehphel
- element (chemical) = phel
- element 104 = vipmowphel
- element 105 = pylanmowphel
- element 106 = fipantimowphel
- element 107 = sunmowphel
- enemy = sebh
- entropy = sarmkre
- erbium = sharantiphel
- europium = utilphel
- every = rosp
- existence = keh
- explosion = stru
- eye = riva
- fall = nek
- far = faevigan
- fear = wem
- female (nurturing) = ti
- fermium = sharantimehphel
- fight = sebopih
- fill = blan
- fire = yx
- first = mehbis
- five = may
- flight = talates
- fluorine = myanphel
- form = uran
- four = moo
- francium = naenehphel
- freedom = gres
- friend = racash
- friendship = raca
- from = zel
- fur = agos
- gadolinium = orlaphel
- gallium = yyumeephel
- game = fen
- gathering of beings = cora
- gem = el
- gentle = gleb
- germanium = bitarmeephel
- gift = yor
- gold (element) = abameephel
- good = sip
- grandeur = daaver
- gratitude = rerens
- hafnium = vipmeephel
- happiness = looh
- harp = attah
- he = aw
- helium = kyarphel
- help = meda
- holmium = notiphel
- home = gres
- honor, honored = nui (nuishra = "honored ones")
- hostility = seb
- however = kur
- human = ebettor
- hydrogen = naephel
- I = ah
- in = bal
- indium = yyummowphel
- intelligent creature = co
- iodine = myanmowphel
- iridium = ibenmeephel
- iron = jidatphel
- it = aw
- jewel = el
- jump = ret
- justice = limat
- krypton = kyarmowphel
- large (size) = mahs
- lathanum = shantimeephel
- lawrencium = yitormehphel
- lead (element) = bitarmoophel
- leader = persh
- leadership = per
- life = ellan
- light = vennet
- light ray = li
- limb = apf
- line = yaar
- lithium = naemehphel
- little = hen
- location = geva
- long (size) = ev
- love (platonic) = raca
- love (sexual) = faevima
- lutetium = yitorphel
- magnesium = trismehphel
- making = neeth
- male = dsc
- manganese = sunphel
- mate = faevimash
- mendelevium = ishbamehphel
- mercury (element) = lorameephel
- mind = gath
- molybdenum = fipatimehphel
- more = 'plee
- most = 'plaw
- mother (nurturer) = maranna
- movement = letch
- music = jaseni
- name = torjav
- negation = gan
- neodymium = wisphel
- neon = kyarmehphel
- neptunium = wismehphel
- -ness (quality of being) = kre
- new = naroc
- next = jaoo
- nickel = cretpehl
- night = rem
- niobium = pylanmehphel
- nitrogen = grenphel
- nobelium = fartomehphel
- nothingness = ka
- now (present tense emphatic) = -chay
- number = doe
- object = pey
- ocean = formas
- one (number) = meh
- opinion = barin
- opposite = bir
- ordinal numbers, suffix for = -bis
- osmium = jidatmeephel
- other = tol
- ought = alir
- out = ganbal
- over = ganive
- oxygen = eviphel
- pain = nim
- palladium = cretmehphel
- path = sel
- peace = gest
- phosphorus = grenmehphel
- pilot = peytesh
- place = geva
- placement = kwil
- planet = helyar
- platinum = cretmeephel
- please (polite word) = ken
- plutonium = ziblamehphel
- poison = oma
- (polite form) = -ken
- polonium = evimoophel
- potassium = naemowphel
- power = an
- praesodymium = hitanphel
- promethium = ziblaphel
- promise = tahn
- protactinium = hitanmehphel
- quality of being (-ness) = kre
- radium = trismayphel
- radon = kyarmayphel
- rain = naalor
- ray (of light) = li
- remains = kiwifra
- repetition = mehrk
- respect = gaelar
- rhenium = sunmeephel
- rhodium = ibenmehphel
- road = sel
- rock = del
- reproduction (sexual) = ru
- rubidium = naemoophel
- ruthenium = jidatmehphel
- sailor = fortesh
- samarium = thikphel
- scandium = shantiphel
- see (verb) = riva
- seek = paaselriva (literally "look towards")
- selenium = evimeephel
- separation (physical) = karessa
- sexual intercourse = ma
- she = aw
- should = alir
- sibling = meliorchransh
- silicon = bitarmehphel
- silver = abamehphel
- similar = chran
- six = neh
- skin = dha
- sky = anac
- small = hen
- snow = hesket
- sodium = naemeephel
- soft = dwar
- soil = maela
- song = jaseni
- sorrow = ett
- source = det
- speech = tor
- sphere = treh
- star = naerva
- starship = naervaratespey
- storm = kyylev
- story = hemmin
- stronitum = trismowphel
- successor = jaoo
- sulfur = evimehphel
- sun = dgevven
- tantalum = pylanmeephel
- technetium = sunmehphel
- tellurium = evimowphel
- tension = jek
- terbium = vyanphel
- thallium = yyummoophel
- thankfulness = rerens
- therefore = zelpaa
- they = awra
- this, that (particularity) = ja
- thorium = ripthamehphel
- thought = tha'p
- three = mow
- thulium = ishbaphel
- time = kamiin
- tin = bitarmowphel
- titanium = vipphel
- to = paa
- touch = meka
- toward = paasel
- transformation = kehta
- travel = tes
- tungsten = fipantimeephel
- two = mee
- under = ive
- unique = jav
- until = kamiinpaa
- uranium = wismehphel
- uranium 235 = wismehphel kaamownehmeh
- uranium 238 = wismehphel kaamownehmoo
- vacuum = len
- valley = resif
- vanadium = pylanphel
- vehicle = peytes
- water = for
- way (path) = sel
- we = ahra
- weariness = plin
- wind = tala
- wisdom = tary
- wonder = daav
- world = helyar
- xenon = kyarmoophel
- yes = peh
- you (singular) = ay
- you (plural) = ayra
- youth = kchenyak
- ytterbium = fartophel
- yttrium = shantimehphel
- zero = mar
- zinc = loraphel
- zirconium = vipmehphel
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