Talloric [CHOZT]
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Registered by
cemeteryghoul on 7 July 2020
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Talloric
Talloric Chozo (tšozo'ṭāllon'k) was originally created by native 
Zebesian speakers to mimic the extinct 
Homeworld Chozo in an attempt to return to their spiritual roots. However, with lack of extensive documentation on Homeworld, Talloric fails to be as faithful of a recreation as intended, which shows in places like the complete lack of the complex tones that define Homeworld’s songlike sound.
Zebesian speakers to mimic the extinct Homeworld Chozo in an attempt to return to their spiritual roots. However, with lack of extensive documentation on Homeworld, Talloric fails to be as faithful of a recreation as intended, which shows in places like the complete lack of the complex tones that define Homeworld’s songlike sound.
Language family relationships
[view] About ChozoThe Chozo language family is a somewhat insulated family of languages spoken by the Chozo, a species of bird people from the video game series Metroid.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | n | [ɳ]1 | [ŋ]2 | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | t | d | ʈ | ɖ | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ɕ | ʑ | x | ɣ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ɰ | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | [r] | ʀ | ||||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]3 | [ɽ]4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Click | ʘ | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /ʀ/
- allophone of /ʀ/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | ɯ ɯ: | ||
| Close-mid | ɤ ɤ: | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | |||
| Open | a a: | |||
OtherTalloric actually has no set /n/, rather, it takes on the place of articulation of the most recent consonant other than /n/ (unless it’s immediately followed by a consonant with a different place of articulation). So a word like xan would be [xaŋ], or ṭun would be [ʈɯɳ]. When uninfluenced by any surrounding consonants, it either takes on the quality of the most recent consonant in a different word (ak na [ak ŋa]) or has a post-alveolar quality [n̠] (ʘina [ʘin̠a]).
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Talloric. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TalloricOrthography | ||||||||||
| a a /a/ | ā ā /a:/ | i i /i/ | ī ī /i:/ | y u /ɯ/ | ȳ ū /ɯ:/ | e e /ɛ/ | ē ē /ɛ:/ | o o /ɤ/ | ō ō /ɤ:/ | r r /ʀ/, [r], [ɾ], [ɽ] |
| l l /l/ | ṭ ṭ /ʈ/ | t t /t/ | ḍ ḍ /ɖ/ | d d /d/ | s s /s/ | z z /z/ | š š /ʃ/ | ž ž /ʒ/ | ç c /ɕ/ | ẓ ẓ /ʑ/ |
| n n /n/, [ɳ], [ŋ] | h h /h/ | g g /g/ | γ γ /ɣ/ | j j /j/ | ỵ y /ɰ/ | k k /k/ | x x /x/ | ʘ ʘ /ʘ/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order | ||||||||||
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