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Lesson #1 - Talloric Alphabet
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A quick overview of the Talloric Chozo alphabet and spelling
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Historically, Talloric Chozo was intentionally derived from  Homeworld (OLD) Chozo, which had two writing systems: an alphabet and a logography. The alphabet was derived from the shapes of the logography and was only used to represent loanwords, but Talloric Chozo adopts the Homeoworld alphabet and abandons the logography. It also creates a small number of new letters to represent sounds that exist in Homeworld but have no distinct letter, which were also derived from the now-obsolete Homeworld logography.
With that out of the way, let's look at the alphabet.

First, the 10 Talloric vowels:
aa: aāā: aː
ii: iīī: iː
y: ɯȳȳ: ɯː
ee: ɛēē: ɛː
oo: ɤōō: ɤː

All Talloric vowels are either short or long, and unlike  Zebesian (OLD), long vowels can occur more than once, but only as the Talloric form of Homeworld words that have overlong vowels. Talloric has no overlong vowels, but the result is the ability to have more than one long syllable per word. Talloric has no formalised diphthongs.

Next, the 21 Talloric consonants:
ll: lrr: ʀ
tt: tṭ: ʈ
dd: dḍ: ɖ
ss: szz: z
šš: ʃžž: ʒ
çç: ɕẓ: ʑ
nn: nhh: h
gg: gγγ: ɣ
jj: jỵ: ɰ
kk: kxx: x
ʘʘ: ʘ

, , ç, , and all represent sounds that exist in Homeworld but have no dedicated letters.
r is realised as r when adjacent to a consonant that isn't retroflex, ɾ at the end of a word, and ɽ when adjacent to and .
n is realised as ɳ when adjacent to and , and as ŋ when adjacent to g, γ, k, and x.
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