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Trukic Language
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The most studied lexical item in Trukic is the term $\text{/ata/}$, which lacks a single direct translation in most Indo-European languages. While often glossed simply as 'truth', $\text{/ata/}$ is semantically richer, encapsulating the idea of a self-evident, but contextually fragile, reality.
The weight of $\text{/ata/}$ in a sentence is often inversely proportional to the number of adjectives preceding the noun. If a noun is modified by four or more descriptive adjectives, the presence of $\…