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First verse of Bury Our Light by The Hellmouth Sunbeams translated to Entesùka

Entesùka [éntêska] is a personal conlang made by me. It doesn't try very hard to be naturalistic as much as it tries to be aesthetic. In this post I'll go over a translation I made of the first verse of this song.

English:

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we are too small for this home, too quiet
feel it burning in your bones
now feel your skin crawl as the flames leap higher
try to resist their call

  

Entesùka:

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Cefù reotài rir mâkjio Dam, tài kàire
Bor care mârào Tsenj
Kao, borxu Tsatsae kôikaotang, Tsikare
Pom rainjfùo Tsong

  

The word order is a simple, kind of boring SVO. The first letter of a sentence, and the first letter of every noun are capitalized.

Cefù reotài rir mâkjio Dam, tài kàire literally means "we are too small to this home, too quiet". Cefù means we. Tài means "to be too much of something". Verbs agree with their subject and objects - cefù in this context is human animate, so the verb gets the rèo pr