'Al-Ka!'
said Torm, pointing one long, authoritative finger at the
sign. 'Al-Ka,' he said.
'Al-Ka,' I repeated.
We looked at one another, and both of us laughed. A tear
of amusement formed along the side of his sharp nose, and
his pale blue eyes twinkled.
I had begun to learn the Gorean alphabet.
---Tarnsman of Gor
, p 38
Whereas
there was a main common tongue on Gor, with apparently several
related dialects or sublanguages, some of the Gorean languages
bore in sound little resemblance to anything I had heard
before, at least as languages; they resembled rather the
cries of birds and the growls of animals; they were sounds
I knew could not have been produced by a human throat.
---Tarnsman of Gor, p 39
Occasionally,
however, an English word in Gorean, like 'axe' or 'ship',
would delight me. Certain other expressions seemed clearly
to be of Greek or German origin.
If
I had been a skilled linguist, I undoubtedly would have
discovered hundred of parallels and affinities, grammatical
and otherwise, between Gorean and various of the Earth languages.
---Tarnsman
of Gor, p 45
Gorean
is written, as it is said, as the ox plows. The first line
is written left to right, the second, right to left, the
third, left to right, and so on. I had once been informed
by my friend, Torm, that the whole business was quite simple,
the alternate lines, in his opinion, at least, also being
written forward, `only in the other direction.'
---Players
of Gor, p 243