Utopian Language - Examples

Examples

The only extant text in Utopian is a quatrain written by Peter Giles in an addendum to Utopia:

Vtopos ha Boccas peula chama polta chamaan.
Bargol he maglomi baccan ſoma gymnoſophaon.
Agrama gymnoſophon labarem bacha bodamilomin.
Voluala barchin heman la lauoluola dramme pagloni.

It is translated literally into Latin as:

Utopus me dux ex non insula fecit insulam.
Una ego terrarum omnium abs-- philosophia
Civitatem philosophicam expressi mortalibus
Libenter impartio mea, non gravatim accipio meliora.

This, in turn, is translated into English as follows:

The commander Utopus made me, who was once not an island, into an island.
I alone of all nations, without philosophy,
have portrayed for mortals the philosophical city.
Freely I impart my benefits; not unwillingly I accept whatever is better.

Armed with these translations, it is possible to deduce the following vocabulary:

Vocabulary of the Utopian Language

Utopian	English
agrama	city (cf. Sanskrit grāmam, village)
baccan	of all
barchin	I impart
bargol	one, the only
boccas	commander
bodamilomin	for the mortals
chama	island (ablative)
chamaan	island (accusative)
dramme	I accept
gymnosophaon	philosophy (ablative)
gymnosophon	philosophical (accusative)
ha	me
he	I
heman	(that which is) mine
la	not
lavoluola	unwillingly (la + voluala)
maglomi	of the lands
pagloni	that which is better; better things
peula	not (ablative)
polta	made
soma	without
Utopos	Utopus (mythical founder of Utopia)
voluala	freely, willingly

More's text also contains Utopian "native" terms for Utopian concepts.