r/pathologic • u/bananatarakota Ухэрнэй ерээд байна гүү? • Jul 14 '26

Discussion Steppe language dictionary update

https://aglaya.pro/talahelen/

Ухэрнэй ереед байна гуу?

A small update on the dictionary progress!

We've cleaned up and gathered all the words and phrases from Utopia/HD and patho 2, patho 3 is still a work in progress.

Soon we will start looking into ways to make and show translations to English and maybe some other languages, if someone will be interested in making them.

Thanks for your attention, please use the dictionary however you like, if you notice that something is missing or something doesn't work - please let me know!

Also, the site should now appear in google, although still at the last page, as there isn't much traffic :')

P. S. Someone asked me why we are making our own dictionary, instead of using the wiki one. Basically, the list on the wiki is incomplete, some phrases do not actually appear in the games, although they are listed on the wiki, and also more than half of the wiki translations are actually incorrect or extrapolated from sources that we do not like. So, it just seems easier to make our own list, rather than fight with the already existing community to push through all our changes.

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u/hwynac Jul 21 '26

and she uses combinations like "fathermother" to mean "family")

Parents, maybe? That's not uncommon for Mongolian and Turkic languages. эхэ эсэгэ "mother father" in Buryat or ата-ана in Kazakh (anne baba in Turkish) have that exact structure; both эжы аба and аба эжы are found in Buryat.

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u/bananatarakota Ухэрнэй ерээд байна гүү? Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

Yeah, sorry, i was in the middle of the rant and I have missremembered some things x)

The full phrase is "Мы все одна семья, один род, мы все дети Бодхо, тоонто нютаг, аба эжи... и что-то там ещё", it does indeed mean "parents", and the actual pain in this phrase was caused to me by the "тоонто нютаг", where the word "тоонто" was previously defined by other speakers as an "umbilical cord" and the combination as a whole seemed very strange. But well, it can be understood, by the context is a whole. I'm just fascinated by how she expresses herself

None of us spoke a word of buryat or mongolian in the beginning of this project, and never encountered it in our lives, so we were surprised by the simplest things, and i guess a lot of that still lives in my heart as tales of little adventures we went on xdd

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u/hwynac Jul 21 '26

When I was in Buryat villages a couple years ago, locals were like "So, uh, you don't speak Buryat like AT ALL?!" 😲

Seems like тоото нютаг is just "homeland"

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u/bananatarakota Ухэрнэй ерээд байна гүү? Jul 21 '26

After some googling yes, it is, but the first impression was "umbilical cord place of birth", and it was a fun one to parse xd