Ga-ray-cha (language)

AKA Graytch. This is the primary language of the Graytch sophont race, who are more accurately also called the Ga-ray-cha.

It is a common secondary language in parts of Gushemege Sector and Ilelish Sector, as the Graytch are active members of the Third Imperium.

Lexicon

All words consist of two or more single-syllable components joined by a dash, which represents a slight pause. Only the first component is capitalised when the word is transcribed into Anglic.

• Gu-ju: A type of whistle

• Gun-jel: A harp-like instrument

• In-far-ri: A type of plant native to Liigash; its wood is used for building

• In-so-mai: Literally, "having lost legs"; lame, maimed, or crippled. Humans (possessing only two legs) are naturally in-so-mai

• Jan-jri: A plant-based food

• Ke-lit: A type of animal native to Liigash.

• Kra-gri: A type of pole which launches seed-pods as an effective low-tech weapon

• Ku-an-o: A type of animal native to Liigash.

• Yu-gu-ra-fi: A type of plant native to Liigash; its wood is quite valuable

Selected Proper Nouns

• Chen-su-nar
• Ches-ni-chur
• Chu-bar
• Co-bo-tra
• Den-yit-la
• Fri-jor-ri
• Mok-retinae (corrupted from Mok-ret-i-nae)
• Mor-si-ta
• Nart-roft
• Say-ta-chu
• So-cho
• Thay-tra
• Thi-nu-lar
• U-ma-tran-ji
• Wa-ma-tri
• Wenty-ruu (corrupted from Wen-ti-ruu)
• Yu-su-ran
• Yull-jettii (corrupted from Yull-jett-ii)

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. Marc Miller's Traveller (Imperium Games, 1996), 147-148.
• Timothy B. Brown. Aliens Archive (Imperium Games, 1996), 37-45.
• David Burden, Stuart Dollar, Andy Lilly, Joseph Walsh. Aliens Volume 1 (Imperium Games, 1998), 183-256.