Gozorian

Gozorian (known by native speakers as Gozor (/'gozoʁ/)) is an isolating language spoken on the planet Chomakra by the Gozor Hapu Cha ('gozoʁ 'hapu t͡ʃa), a group of sentient robots, and by the Gozor Hapu Faalu ('gozoʁ 'hapu faː'lu), their army of humanoid aliens.

Phonology

Gozorian uses nineteen consonants and six vowels, shown in the tables below.

Gozorian Consonants Gozorian Vowels Writing System

Gozorian is written using an alphabetic script known as Toroochecha (/'toʁoːt͡ʃyt͡ʃa/), whose characters unfortunately can't be shown in this article due to lack of unicode support.

The Gozorian Latin Alphabet, devised by linguists to transcribe the language, luckily can be shown in this article. The table below shows the individual connections between its characters and the phonemes of the Gozorian language. Long vowels are indicated by double letters, eg: the digraph ii represents the phoneme /iː/. Pauses in speech, which are phonemic, are written using glottal stops, eg: The verb bake'chor (to ignite) is essentially pronounced as two separate words, bake (/'baky/) and chor (/t͡ʃoʁ/), with a clear pause between them.

Grammar

Gozorian uses the subject verb object (SVO) word order, and places adjectives and adverbs on either side of the nouns or verbs they describe.

Each word in Gozorian has two forms, a regular form and a sentence initial form. Though the two forms are always phonetically similar, the relationship between them forms is different for each word, and can't be explained using a formula, eg:

Dygul (red (regular))→Dyje (red (initial))

Echkra (dog (regular))→Feskra (dog (initial))

This makes learning the language significantly hard.

Verbs ending in s are transitive, while verbs ending in k are intransitive. Repeating a verb reverses its natural state, eg:

Chantuk (to kill (intransitive))→Chantuk chantuk (to kill (transitive))

Gozorian has no conjunctives or integration, and is therefore a G1 language. A complex sentence like 'The rabbit ran down the hole to escape the dog.' must be expressed as several smaller sentences, eg: 'The dog chased the rabbit. The rabbit fled down the hole.'

Gozorian contains no preposition, with verb-preposition clusters used in English like 'sit on', 'take in', etc... replaced by single verbs.

Nouns are given number by the particles chil, tul, kut, gor, pa, ho and bekta (the numbers one to seven respectively) placed before them.

Sample Lexicon

Note: initial forms of verbs do not have their own entries, but are included in the entries of their regular counterparts.

bake'chor     v. to ignite (initial form pak'cho)

bekta

cha

chantuk

chil

dygul

echkra

faalu

gor

gozor

hapu

ho

kut

pa

tul