Someone feel like helping me with the translation of the Aragan language?

Hey guys! I'm trying to translate the Aragan language and I'd love to have some help . Is anyone bored? Sorry for the huge wall of text, but I copied it:


Human:

Avian:

Floran:

Apex:

Hylotl:

Glitch:

I think we should try to make a list of commonly named words first, and then try to see in what context they are used? Note how the translaters tried to "parse", so certain word are in English. Btw, to get extra support I also posted on reddit, the more people the more help right? http://www.reddit.com/r/starbound/comments/1wtpe8/whos_in_for_some_puzzling_aragan_language/

 

Well, interestingly, when a creature attacked them, they said "you again!"
Weird.

 

Here's what I've been able to translate, from a Floran perspective:

Agaran says:

Floran hears:

I'm also pretty sure at least one of their phrases translates into Human as:

 

"hoom" and various other "hoom"-like noises could be translated as "hi" or "hello" (or another phrase used to greet others)

judging from the way they adress florans about "squishfish" (their term for hylotl) they share the florans (apparent) dislike for the hylotl, as further evidenced by the way they talk to hylotl characters. the translator gets "threaten" down correctly. (or maybe not?)
(they might even eat hylotl and humans)

they seem to know about Kluex too, as evident in the avian dialogue. perhaps mocking the avian about his/hers inability to fly?

 

Culturally, it's apparent the Agaran seem to have a relation with the Floran and the Hylotl. Their dialogue towards Hylotl appears generally unfavorable, either angry or fearful, while behavior towards Floran is quite favorable, likely due to their physiological similarities.
After about 30-40 minutes of examining the language, I'll give a rough translation of what I think a few of the words mean:

Hoom = Hello
Foom = Goodbye
Hal- = implies enthusiasm or joyfulness, or just enhanced emotion.
Nab = No.
"Nab house, squishfish! Nab nab nab."
"No house (Don't come in!), Hylotl! No no no!"
Clink = money/bartering
Plesta = Please
Smashroom = weapon/sword
Clinker = One who deals in money = Trader
Clinker House = Trader's house = Store
Hab = Hurt?

Given context, what I think a few of the phrases likely mean:
"Habahoom squishfish, nab oaken smashroom cantaloupe!"
"Hello Hylotl, go away or I'll smash you like a cantaloupe!" Edit: more likely: Hello Hylotl, your body is soft like cantaloupe. (possibly some kind of insult)

"Hoom, squishfish. Nab smashroom habba clinker house. Okay?"
"Hello, Hylotl. No weapons out (in the) store, Okay?

 

I would honestly love this to be deciphered. we could so use this.

 

A lot of their words seem to sound very similar to, and share roots with, English words. Of course, their sentance structure may be entirely different from our own.
Here's my shot at a few:
"Halhoom, hairthing. Nab smashroom, plesta."
~"Welcome, Apex. No attack, please."
"Hoom, clankbeast. Habba nab cartography spaceshroom."
~"Hello, Glitch. [???] no cartography (Agaran?)."
"Squishfish. Mesta nab tetrana chop clinker."
~"Hylotl. [Me/I] no [???] harm weapon."
"Hoom! Nab chop Giant Hairthing. Weepa?"
~"Hello! No harm Big Ape. Sad?"
"Halhoom! Nab feara deka plant!"
~"Welcome! No fear [the/you] Floran!"

 

Alright guys, we're doing this quite nicely already :] Its nice to see people work together to achieve a common goal, even tough it's something as simple as a video game. A high 5 to all of you!

With the information you guys provided above(ty ), I created a list of words that occur commonly (and I think are thusprobably important to know), if a word needs to be changed/added, please tell me!


Glitch = Clankbeast
Apex = Hairthing
Hylotl = Squishfish
Floran = Kissface (plant)

Hoom = Hello
Halhoom = Welcome [?]
Nab = No/Not
Feara = Fear
Mesti = Me
Smashroom = Weapon
Cutshroom = Stabbing weapon [?]
Deka = ?
Plesta = Please
Chop = ?
Weepa = ?
Clinker = Trader
Clink = Bartering
Habble/Habba = ?
Halb = ?
Foom = Goodbye

 

Ah, it seems a few of my guesses were quite a bit off. Your versions seem to make much more sense.

 

Wait, "shopshroom" also exists, is it possible smashroom means gaurd/bandit instead of weapon?

 

There was a way to check if their language is a propper, might have to do some research on that later on, basicly saying that if the most used words in a language are creating a 45°Curve then its a language with propper context and information inside. As already said, gotta reread this and might gonna work that out for the shroom language after I passed my exams at university.

 

This is very interesting, and I fully support it, but I'm just going to add there's probably an 80% chance (<Completely made up statistic) that the developers decided to just use filler words like "hoom halhalhoom halmar shroom" around key words like "clankbeast" and the keywords you'll be able to decipher but a bunch of what they say is probably meaningless.

That being said, the Devs have impressed me so far with the inclusion of such things, so I wouldn't be too surprised if each phrase translated nicely into english.

Edit: I want to be clear, by no means is my post meant in discouragement! Nono, I entirely support it and would like to help if I find time. I'm just saying assigning meaning to the common used words might be a bad place to start because the more common usage of the word, the more likely it was just a random filler.

Edit2:

I'd also like to add:

Hello, Glitch. Don't have spaceship map.

Tetrana might be tetra fish?

 

I hope you guys figure out how to translate it all, it'll be cool to know what they are saying

 

Nope, @Razey took pains to make sure it all translates

 

"Halhalhoom! Tentacrush weepa no meat."
The Aragans are referring to the tentacle monster that destroyed earth, and are sad because there is less meat. They speak of frying humans in their dialogue, so one could infer they like eating humans.
Also the Aragans seem to be fearful of the Apex, their technology, and Big Ape. (Just my opinion.)

 

WHAT? fry Kluex? How dare you!!!!!

 

I want to suggest that "nab cloudchaser" could mean Grounded in reference to Avians. And that "nab cartography spaceshroom" could mean "you're lost."

It is like any language. When you translate it literally it sounds a bit off and sometime even bizarre. Take one step back from the literal and it may make more sense.

 

Human smoothness seems to be a running trend. Are we just naturally cuddle able to the rest of the galaxy?

Also, where do the agarans get their English words? It sounds too off to be anything like gobbietalk.(FFXI reference)

 

Hoom, you know, could be a mere reference to noise LOTR ents make.