The translator

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You are following the Slow Read, which begins with the Prologue on Saturday 10 October and reads a chapter a week. Read ahead? Choose the last chapter you have finished. The site hides anything from a chapter you have not reached; this is proof of reading, never of buying, and a library copy counts.

Somka to English, or English to Somka. It works from the dictionary and a few rules of grammar, and it gives the same answer every time.

A word it does not know is marked sokha, unlisted. It never invents a word: propose one to the Ledger Desk instead.

Somka to English / English to Somka

Short texts only (up to 280 characters). Grammar is simple: it puts the verb second and the little words after the noun, and leaves anything harder for you to fix.

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Somka
Sa.
In signs
sa
Word by word
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English
Hush (heard).