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<<if $lessons >= 2>>(Next module)  •  <</if>><<if $lessons > 0>>[[Introducing yourself]]  •  [[Word order]]  •  [[Honorifics]]  •  [[Verbs]]  •  [[Vocabulary 1]]  •  <</if>>[[Welcome]] <br> <<if $mod1b>>[[Introducing yourself|Introducing yourself quiz]]<</if>> <<if $mod1a>>[[Word order|Word order quiz]]<</if>> <<if $mod1c>>[[Honorifics|Honorifics quiz]]<</if>> <<if $mod1d>>[[Verbs|Verbs quiz]]<</if>> <<if $mod1e>>[[Vocabulary 1|Vocabulary 1 quiz]]<</if>>

Hakét! Welcome to the interactive learning module for the Tekét Lau Language Lessons course! In this course, you’ll learn how to read and speak Tekét Lau, the majority language of Kurís. Advancing through lessons and tests will unlock more advanced lessons, until you’re ready to read stories and have conversations entirely in Tekét. The first set of lessons will teach you how to introduce yourself, and familiarise you with some of the basics of the language. You’ll learn: -Some basic sentences and vocabulary -Tekét word order -Honorifics -Verb conjugation [[Let’s get started!|Home]] <<if typeof $lessons == 'undefined'>><<set $lessons = 1>><</if>>

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English is an SOV language, which means the default word order is ‘Subject Object Verb’, as in the sentence “Alex eats an apple.” Changing the word order often changes the meaning of the sentence — “An apple eats Alex” means something different. Moving the verb to the beginning of the sentence — “You have seen this” to “Have you seen this” — often turns the sentence into a question. Tekét Lau has a different word order, and is a little more flexible in that order than English is. By default, sentences are in VSO — Verb Subject Object — but Verb Object Subject is also acceptable. We’ll talk a little more about why you might want to change the word order in a future lesson, for now we’ll focus on the VSO word order. This means that while a sentence like /Eats Alex taPlant/ Would be translated as ‘Alex eats the plant’, you could translate it literally as ‘Eats Alex the plant’ [[Home]] <<set $mod1a = true>> <<if $mod1a && $mod1b && $mod1c && $mod1d && $mod1e>><<set $lessons +=1>><</if>>

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Verbs in Tekét Lau change in response to other words in the sentence — they conjugate based on the noun class of the subject or object. Verbs can go unconjugated, and other speakers will still understand you, but speaking this way will make you sound immature or condescending and so we recommend learning the conjugation system early on. There are four noun classes in Tekét Lau, referred to as the first, second, third, and fourth class; the holy, hunter, food, and inedible class; or the holy, hunter, animate, and inanimate class. We will be using the latter convention for our lessons, but keep in mind that some resources may use a different convention as you learn. [[Home]] <<set $mod1d = true>> <<if $mod1a && $mod1b && $mod1c && $mod1d && $mod1e>><<set $lessons +=1>><</if>>

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