Corpus Language

Official Corpus Cipher. As stated on the official Warframe website, the Corpus have no use the for letter "X" and "CH" is used in place of the letter "C". The only numbers present are 0 and 1.

The Corpus Language uses a set of modified Roman-number like letters with varied shape for distinctiveness. The speech heavily relies on consonants.

Earlier concepts for the Corpus alphabets were based on the shapes and general outline of late Nineteenth Century print advertisements. The first few drafts were a little more rounded letters, then blocky, as the refinement of Corpus shapes come together over time, the lettering became colder and less emotionally complex. Each icon becomes a Lettermark in its own way -- a symbol used for a definitive and effective purpose. The industrial packaging of Corpus print has all the individuality and personality of a die-cast metal stamp -- simple and direct, to be used as needed.

Speech

Because of the Corpus having a relatively new language, the amount of audio heard in-game is limited. Lines heard in-game are sometimes heard when idle, but there is a notable difference between in-battle and idle sounds.

Speech and translations of Crewmen, Combas, and Scrambus, can be found here.

Pronunciation is based on English with an altered alphabet as shown below. Because of this, it is possible to directly translate any word using the altered alphabet (for example: attack = appayk: a=a, t=p, c=y, k=k). This rule is applied to the spoken language. However, all writing in the Corpus font alphabet is written in correct English.

A = A B = T C = Y D = P E = E F = T G = J H = K I = I

J = T K = K L = P M = S N = T O = O P = K Q = R R = T

S = Y T = P U = U V = T W = J X = K Y = Y Z = B

Phonetic audio

• "Ji-ji peji!"
• "Ji-ji kutpuhye!"
• "Yuyui"
• "Tje (or Pje) Yotkoyi"
• "Kiu ypap"
• "Tositap"
• "Attiye" (or "Attiya")
• "Takut (or Tekut) petish"
• "Tje jeteh"
• "Se popuy"
• "Machepe"

Translation

As received from the DE members on the Warframe forum.

• Attack! = Appayk!
• Exterminate hostiles = Ekpetsitape koypipey
• For the Corpus = Tot pke yotkuy
• Assault = Ayyaupp
• Warframes! = Jatttasey!
• Engage battle mode = Etjaje tapppe sope

Trivia

• The Corpus didn't have a language before Update 12.4, but rather a vocabulary of technological or mechanized sounds that were not pronounceable.
  • The old language was variously interpreted by players, with suggestions such as "goofsrababa00" or "who's the  Vauban".
• Both the Corpus and the Grineer use the word "Attaf". Both mean "Attack". "Attaf" is pronounced longer than it is currently being spelled, both by Corpus and Grineer.
• It is reasonable to assume that " Luxor" is some sort of Corpus manufacturing corporation, while " Beecloud" is either a robotics programming group or a software, as both symbols, the circle-in-triangle-in-circle and the beehive respectively, are seen on many different items in-game.
  • Other recurring symbols are a pair of crossed keys, a star ("          Fortunate Dawn"), and a pair of snakes entwined over a diamond shape with the letters O, K, L and U at its points.
• Many of the regular Corpus talk the same, but the Corpus Tech talks with, what could be considered, an accent. Normal pronunciations differs slightly from regular Crewmen. For example, Techs say "Pje", where regular Crewmen say: "Tje", or "Tekut" instead of "Takut". They still speak at the same tone height.
  • This might be related to the Corpus Techs size, as they are notably taller than regular Crewmen.
• The official Corpus cipher reveals that they don't have any use for the letter "X" (which is instead substituted with "KS", as in           The Index) and only have two numbers (0 and 1).
  • This may reference the Corpus' preference in using Binary when indicating numbers.

Media

KORPUS

CORPUS (left).
KORPUS (right).
Notice how K is substituted with C, despite K having its own letter.

"SALE" - Darvo's shop, along with Orokin and Grineer translations.

MARVEL (Still in translation)

"RANDOM y GALL 1"

CARGO HOLD

CARGO ROOM (signs are identical)

CAUTION NANO FOUNDRY FORGE

BEECLOUD ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEMS

"WE ARE THE KORPUS"

"CHAUTION" - Warning sign in the Corpus reactor fuel room.

Warning

MAINTENANCE

"ELECHTRICHAL"

Corpus HIVEMIND MFK Vault-like door (unopenable secret on ice planet) - possibly a base of the original manufacturers of the Corpus' swarm intelligence robots?

Zoom-in of writing on vault (same as other picture - KFM DNIMEVIH written backwards Leonardo da Vinci style, which is HIVEMIND MFK).

"CHILTOT - HIVEMIND MFG"

BEECLOUD on an electronic.

BEECLOUD on a can.

BEECLOUD on an explosive barrel in Grineer Galleon.

"BEEKLOUD" barrel in the Corpus Gas City

(From top, left, right and bottom) O, K, L and U. Unknown what they stands for.

A banner displayed for the Corpus Workers, likely belonging to the Beecloud - Old Corpus Gas City

Duty is how we serve the corpus (flag writing was backwards) - Old Corpus Gas City

The corpus serves us, we serve the corpus (backwards) - Old Corpus Gas City

Writing on the side of the  MK1-Braton that reads LUKSOR FORGE

Writing on the Dendra Armor "Fenser"

OBELISK. Possibly the name of the type of Corpus Vessel.

"SLIPPERY WHEN WET" - Europa tunnels, near a subterranean meltwater river.

Text on the side of the Corpus rover in Hijack missions.

OBELISK

Writing seen on Venus, written on a floating and powered ship visible from the wide bridge. Reads "ABCDE"

AUTHORIZED AI ONLY

"HIGH LEVEL SECHURITY" - Text displayed on the entrenches of Corpus data vaults.

T H E I N D E KS. Referring to The Index.

BREAKING NEWS LIVE ON LOCHATION: PADOVHAN CHOLONY LOSES ALL IN INDEKS SCHANDAL (Logo on the side is GNN)

THE DEAD HAVE DEBTS

"LABORATORY 10" - Corpus Gas City

"GENERATOR GAMMA 1" - Corpus Gas City

"DEPOT" - Corpus Gas City

"KONTROL ROOM" - Corpus Gas City

"KAUTION" - Corpus Gas City

"GENERATOR ROOM" - Corpus gas city.

"EKSO ATMOSPHERIK CHERTIFIED" - Corpus Gas City.

"LUKSOR NANOKOMPOSITES FOUNDRY FORGE" and "RESEARCH" - Corpus gas city spy vault.

"PRESSURE KONTROL ROOM" - Corpus Gas City.

Screen in the Corpus Gas City control room tile. This same text can also be found on Corpus control consoles, workstations, and PDAs as used by NPCs in relays (regardless of faction).

KINDLY REPORT TO SEKTION FOUR. ALAD V THANKS YOU" - Corpus Gas City

"VISITORS, LET ME SHOW YOU THE FUTURE: ALAD V WELCOMES YOU TO THE NEW GAS CHITY" - Corpus Gas City.

"VOLENTEER NOW" Corpus Gas City (Cloud Vista Tile)

"IN THE NAME OF PROFIT"/"VOLUNTEER NOW" followed by the Luxor Sigil and "CHOPUS MERCHHANT GUILD"

"profit" Alad V's Laboratory

"WINTER STORM WARNING: SEVERE SNOWFALL AND WIND EKSPECHTED." - Fortuna Spaceport.

"KORPUS MERCHANT GUILD" - Fortuna.

Luxor advert - Fortuna

"ENKRYPTION" - Gas City Spy Vault

External links

• TennoTyper, an English to Warframe text translator developed by Clarvel.