Jedi Texts

Ko-Lasha

Primer of Ko-Lasha.

A desk, not the grammar. The full teaching is How to Read Ko-Lasha. Paste a token here. The desk will not gloss the held line in the Annals.

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    What this is

    Ko-Lasha is the tongue. The grammar is Ko-Lasha. Tesn is how it is cut — mute, never spoken. This plank is the Purge-hour cut of the sacred Jedi texts — not the Temple originals (those are Tionese, Coremaic, protobesh, Basic: the later Master’s shelf). A Guardian of the Whills carved Classical Ko-Lasha in Tesn on Ferrix so the hunters of that hour had no name for the knife, and so the field would not hear a spoken hide. Kas Veran keeps both: the mute cut and the tongue. The grammar was built in this holocron so the eight can be read. Three layers: Prime (a mouth the Force would hear), Classical (the tongue, carved mute in Tesn), Basic (what a reader says without Ko-Lasha). Learn Tesn is the knife. How to Read is the tongue.

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    Sound

    Five vowels: a e i o u. Stress on the last full vowel of the stem; prefixes are unstressed. x is a scrape, not ks. Digraphs (one mark): sh ts ch th sx. ky in kyb is two marks. Prime roots are CVC. Syllable (C)(C)V(C)(C). Prefixes never elide (ra-arnel, ko-ash). Light leans front (i, e, ash). Weight leans back (o, u, bog). That grain is Ko-Lasha. Tesn is the mute carved hand: well, sun, cut. Clay, uneti, stone — same primitives, different tool. No Tesn pronunciation.

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    Three keys

    ko- is the definite on a noun, the known teaching. Construct is head then dependent: girkan ko-ash — book of the light-flow. Aspect sits on the verb only: ra- ongoing, nu- completed, ve- may. Never stack ko- and ra- on one stem. na with a space before an act forbids it (na gor). na after a bare noun is is-not (nol na, tesn na). na- with a hyphen makes a quality (na-sof). After the event, tesn / shom / hasn / lur is how you know — beheld, heard, inferred, silence. One. Not an aspect.

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    Cases you will actually use

    Prefer case suffixes in Classical. -um in/at, -ar toward, -il from, -ov by means of, -va belonging to, -im collective, dative -n on a full noun (tsav-n). Short stems fuse (keranum, kybov). Longer stems hyphenate (ver-ar). Mixing ban: mi/sa/in with a case on the same stretch — refuse. al is Classical (upon). su is Prime-color (it) — flag, do not strip. Construct: case the head, quality next, ko-dependent last. Pick construct or -va, not both.

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    Mas, Nol, and Padawan

    Three sky-words, later used as ranks. Mas is Master and sun — same ancient word. A sun shines; it does not pour itself into the ground. Padawan is light well: potential, filling with its own water. Nol is Knight and moon: the braid is cut; they walk by reflected light; they are not a source. If a moon tries to be a sun, it burns what it still borrows. The braid is the length of that patience made visible.

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    How the books use it

    Aionomicum I is interlinear Prime under Classical, canticle-bound. Brus-bu is a sealed craft copy. Canticles holds the Margin song. Rammahgon is cosmogony and a hole. Poetics is aphorism. Annals is history that teaches. Midut is the between. One line in the Annals must not be translated or spoken. Jedi Texts is one door: How to Read first, then the eight on the plank. The Eight Confirmations came with TC-8 — so a well walks the books before the field.

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    The Margin Canticle

    Eighteen letters: LASHAKOASHKESHAKUM — lasha ko ash ke sha kum — tongue, the, light-flow, and, balance, rise. First letter of each sealed line spells the song downward. Omit a line and the copy is broken.

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    What is reconstruction

    Named in the histories: Aionomica, Rammahgon, Brus-bu, Poetics. The projection-art is Fallanassi, recorded in the texts; this shelf’s book is Midut. Canticles and Annals fill unnamed slots. Seal, sister map, missing page, Padawan projection-vow, and Ko-Lasha itself are reconstruction — marked on the leaf. They are not claimed as Temple first-leaf.

Cipher desk

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Particles

  • ko-the / that-known (prefix)
  • a-living subject (prefix): a-liv, a-mas, a-nol, a-pad, a-spas, a-jed, a-sit
  • nanot — local. Before an act: na gor. After a bare noun, is-not: nol na, tesn na. Hyphen na- is a quality, not this particle.
  • sawith (song / Prime color more than Classical)
  • keand — joins equals
  • luif / when — opens a condition
  • babut / yet — turns against the last thought
  • yaO (vocative)
  • tathus / so — concludes a condition
  • shias / like
  • kolall / every
  • orwho / which (relative)
  • mifrom (Prime / Song — do not stack with case)
  • inin (Prime particle; Classical prefers -um — do not stack with case)
  • hathat (demonstrative)
  • alupon / over — fully Classical
  • suit / that-one (Prime pronoun — flag, do not strip)
  • pelone / first

Cases

  • -umin / at (locative) — keranum, in the house
  • -arto / toward (allative) — ver-ar, toward the well
  • -ilfrom / out of (ablative) — nulil, from the void
  • -ovby means of (instrumental) — kybov, by the crystal
  • -vaof / belonging to
  • -nto / for (dative)
  • -implural / collective — girkanim, the books

Aspect

  • (bare)gnomic, habitual, timeless — tesn, kem, tun
  • ra-ongoing / imperfective — ra-kos, ra-rap, ra-gor
  • nu-completed / perfective — nu-tal, nu-sxal, nu-chan
  • ve-potential / irrealis — ve-sim, ve-sha, ve-rap
  • na + stemprohibition — na bled, na gor, na anvan. After a noun with no verb left, is-not: nol na

Roots

  • ashlight-flow; Force-as-revelation
  • bogshadow-weight; to shadow
  • livlife
  • kosbind; whole
  • midbetween
  • verwell; vergence
  • nulvoid
  • wilwill (the known choosing); to choose
  • wilutability to choose
  • thorpath
  • simlikeness; to project a likeness
  • futbecoming; not-yet
  • kybcrystal; kyber
  • shabalance; to balance
  • gorhunger-without-leave; to hunger so
  • renteaching-wound
  • keranhouse; temple
  • girkanbook; marked leaf
  • lashatongue; language
  • ergsong; canticle
  • vorakworld-order; cosmos
  • tsarrtree; living wood
  • raphealing (the known act); to heal
  • bledbleed (a crystal)
  • tunattune
  • chanknow
  • hasndiscern
  • tesnbehold; reveal; the carved marks of Classical Ko-Lasha
  • kemkeep; hide; seal
  • sxalfail
  • uxtvow
  • hovipeace; to be at peace
  • parifitting; good; to become fitting
  • vayartrue; firm
  • luysnlight (noun)
  • luskindle; shine
  • masMaster; sun (ancient same word)
  • nolKnight; moon (ancient same word). Walks by reflected light. Not a source.
  • padawanlight well (ancient); later: learner
  • jedJedi
  • sitSith
  • spaswait; patience; vigil; to keep vigil
  • arneldraw-out; take
  • talgive
  • mortthreshold; death; to die
  • midutteaching of the between
  • hishelremember
  • gnelwalk
  • gadgreat
  • kayabide
  • shomlisten
  • hramseal-order (the known law); to bind as law
  • anvanspeak; give breath (forbidden of the held line)
  • chanutknowing; the teaching of how to know
  • padlearner (short of Padawan)
  • pelikfirst-one; the original leaf
  • rostwo / second
  • tinthree / third
  • kalfour / fourth
  • lamfive / fifth
  • tobsix / sixth
  • sibseven / seventh
  • daleight / eighth — the shelf
  • kumrise
  • dafimpages; leaves
  • sofend; to end / finish
  • mnamremain; stay
  • bazmany
  • herufar
  • khoranmind-seat
  • gelumheart-seat
  • lursilence (the known quiet); to hold silence
  • grilwrite
  • xoselspeak (action, -el)
  • elnelexit; go out
  • mtnelenter; go in
  • moxharm (the known injury); to harm
  • surreturn
  • kraka break; to break
  • galcome
  • tsavpain; the ledger of spend
  • doropen
  • pchelstorm
  • stanaltake-stand
  • sachair; Padawan braid
  • sutanfalse; to become false
  • kavempty
  • malfull
  • xinsmall
  • narnear
  • yelold; worn
  • neknew; freshly cut
  • tulstill; quiet (the well at rest)
  • ghelbright (as a coat, not the noun luysn)
  • rakheavy (as a coat, not bog)
  • fenopen (as a coat, not dor)
  • ashutlight-flow teaching
  • raputhealing-teaching
  • masimsuns (mas + -im); many lights of the lane
  • bogumin-the-shadow-weight (bog + -um); the night-side of a world
  • luysn-herufar-light (hyphen compound); a star of the lane

176 entries in the learner core.