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The Solari Language is used by the Solari people, including those in Fortuna. The written form can be found all over signs and banners found around Fortuna.

Written Language

All writing in the Solari alphabet is either written in correct American English or closely written phonetically in the English language. Numbers are written in binary form with ones and zeroes, similar to the Corpus Language.

Known Slang

See Fortuna/Quotes and Corpus Ship/Quotes for usage of slang by Solaris locals.

Used by all or most Solari
Word/Phrase	Translation/Meaning
Abigail	Assassin^[1]
Action doc	A person who can arrange a variety of illegal services for a fee^[2]
Ah guts	"Damn it"^[2]
Ambidexter	Backstabber or one who plays both sides.^[2]
Backstroke	??^[3]
Brain-shelf	To have one's head repossessed and locked away by the Corpus
Bundled out	Loaded to max capacity^[2]
Chek-chek	"Okay"
Come back	Invitation for other pilot to talk on comms^[2]
Convoy	Group of ships traveling together
Copy-cats	Grineer
Crater-faced	A place overrun with Infestation^[2]
Crud diver	Someone who works beneath the surface of tanks/pools/lakes of coolant and breaks up blockages^[2]
Cove	Scumbag or a friend
Cycle	Refers to a single cold/warm cycle on the Orb Vallis, conceptually equivalent to a "day"
Deadhead	Empty ship with no cargo^[2]
Eyeball	To see something
Fatboy	Heavy-duty cargo ship/tractor
Gib-faced	Unattractive^[2]
Go-go juice	Fuel
Got your ears on?	"Anyone listening/anyone on comms?"
Furball	Group of Grineer^[2]
Hab	A Solaris colony like Fortuna^[3]
Handle	Name^[2]
Jockey	A driver/pilot of a ship^[3]
Lugger	A person who carries heavy equipment from one place to another^[2]
Keep the shiny side up	"Have a safe trip/don't have an accident"^[2]
Manifest	Document
Meat wagon	Ambulance^[2]
Merk-merks	Mercantile mercenaries (aka Corpus)^[3]
Mucker	Vulgar slang for a disgusting or insignificant person
Mucking	Vulgar slang to express anger or disgust
Old mate	"Friend" or "this person here"^[2]
Organic	Living things
Outworlder	A foreigner
Personnel cleric	A non-Corpus Temple officiate^[2]
Poppin' zits	Killing Infestation^[2]
Rail agents	Solaris United tractor jockeys who use the Solar Rails^[2]
Repo (noun)	Pejorative, one who has been subjected to limb repossession^[2]
Repo (verb)	Short for repossession, a process where Corpus take away body parts and replace it with mechanical ones for debt collateral
Rig	Artificial body
Rig jockey	Solaris worker
Rubbernecking	slowing down to gaze at something^[2]
Silver stamps	Rail agent lingo for credits payment^[2]
Smoke the brakes	"Slow down/wait up/say what?"^[2]
Sprog	Children^[3]
Sumper	Someone who works in the sumps, lowest level job^[2]
Taxman	Corpus
Thrower	Casual labor that unloads your ship, often for cash payment^[2]
Tractor jockey	A ship pilot
Tractor race	Two rail agents competing for same contract^[2]
Triple digits	High speed^[2]
Whisper network	Spy network, usually referring to Solaris United informants^[2]
Wide-bore	Turbocharged/with great force^[2]
Wotsit/whatsit	"What is it"
Zits	Infestation

Used by Ventkids only^[4]
Word/Phrase	Translation/Meaning
Bit	A K-Drive part
Dog	Good
Fam	Family
Glinty	Fancy; also a nickname for the Tenno
Gutterball	"to lower the price", similar to lowballing
Howzit	"how is it"
Klokkit	"go"
Lateral	Crazy or "on edge"
Logical	To be bonded by the same belief or lifestyle, akin to "brotherhood"
Null-unit	"idiot"
Plank	K-Drive
Primo	Premium
Scope	"see"
Skeg	A genre of improvised music created by the Ventkids
Terminal	Fast

Tabulated Ciphers

Matching Solari alphabet to International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for English pronounciations.

English Consonsants
IPA	Solari Alphabet Equivalent(s)	English Examples
p		pen, tip
b		but, web
t		take, cut
d		dad, do
tʃ		chat, nature
dʒ		joy, giant, edge
k		cat, kite, queen
g		go, get, gutter
f		off, fate
v		voice, of, favorite
θ		thing, teeth
ð		that, soothe
s		same, city, sass
z		zoo, rose
ʃ		she, sure, emotion
ʒ		genre, seige, pleasure
h		hat, heaven
m		man, jam
n		no, brain
ŋ		ringer, sing, drink
l		loss, please
r		run, very
w		win, we
j		yes, yawn
x		loch

English Vowels
IPA	Solari Alphabet Equivalent(s)	English Examples
eɪ		day, gate, date
ɒ		blockade, pot
ɔ:		paw, thought
æ		pat, bat
ɜ		bird, curt
ə	No equilvalent	comma, about
ɪ		pit, in, fish
ɛ		pet, bed
i		bee, need
ʌ		run
ʊ		put
u		food, dude, through
aɪ		bye, night, my
oʊ		tow, woe, dough
aʊ	No equilvalent	now, foul

Numbers and Punctuation
Symbols	Solari Alphabet Equivalent
0
1
2	No equilvalent
3	No equilvalent
4	No equilvalent
5	No equilvalent
6	No equilvalent
7	No equilvalent
8	No equilvalent
9	No equilvalent
. (period)
? (question mark)
! (exclamation mark)
, (comma)
: (colon)
' (apostrophe)
— (hyphen)	No equilvalent
@ (at sign)	No equilvalent
# (pound sign)	No equilvalent

Notes

Solari Language is also used as an inscription on Pax Arcanes.
- Magus Arcanes and Virtuos Arcanes obtained from Little Duck in Fortuna also use Solari Language as an inscription instead of Ostron Language.

Trivia

It is the only language in WARFRAME to feature unique scripts for colons (:) and apostrophes (').
Unlike other WARFRAME languages, there is little info on proper nouns that are unique to the language as the Solari people have their names replaced by identification numbers assigned to by the Corpus. As such, nicknames or other aliases are given to the Solari based on distinguishing characteristics (e.g. Legs) or arbitrarily.

Media

References

↑ https://twitter.com/Cam_Rogers/status/1364253002681442305
↑ ^2.00 ^2.01 ^2.02 ^2.03 ^2.04 ^2.05 ^2.06 ^2.07 ^2.08 ^2.09 ^2.10 ^2.11 ^2.12 ^2.13 ^2.14 ^2.15 ^2.16 ^2.17 ^2.18 ^2.19 ^2.20 ^2.21 ^2.22 ^2.23 ^2.24 ^2.25 ^2.26 ^2.27 File:SolarisUnitedSlangTennocon2019.jpg
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 See Fortuna/Quotes
↑ See Roky/Quotes and Boon/Quotes

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 ==Known Slang==
+See [[Fortuna/Quotes]] and [[Corpus Ship/Quotes]] for usage of slang by Solaris locals.
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 |+Used by all or most Solari
 |-
 ! style="width:10%"|Word/Phrase
 ! style="width:70%"|Translation/Meaning
 |-
+| Abigail || Assassin<ref>https://twitter.com/Cam_Rogers/status/1364253002681442305</ref>
-| Action doc || A person who can arrange a variety of illegal services for a fee<ref name="tennocon">[[File:SolarisUnitedSlangTennocon2019.jpg]]</ref>
+|-
+| Action doc || A person who can arrange a variety of illegal services for a fee<ref name="tennocon">[[:File:SolarisUnitedSlangTennocon2019.jpg]]</ref>
 |-
 | Ah guts || "Damn it"<ref name="tennocon" />
 |-
-| Ambidexter || Backstabber<ref name="fortuna">See [[Fortuna/Quotes]]</ref>, or one who plays both sides.
+| Ambidexter || Backstabber or one who plays both sides.<ref name="tennocon" />
+|-
+| Backstroke || ??<ref name="fortuna">See [[Fortuna/Quotes]]</ref>
 |-
 | Brain-shelf || To have one's head repossessed and locked away by the [[Corpus]]
@@ Line 32: / Line 36: @@
 |-
 | Crater-faced || A place overrun with [[Infestation]]<ref name="tennocon" />
+|-
+| Crud diver || Someone who works beneath the surface of tanks/pools/lakes of coolant and breaks up blockages<ref name="tennocon" />
 |-
 | Cove || Scumbag or a friend
 |-
-| Cycle || Refers to a single cold/warm cycle on the [[Orb Vallis]]
+| Cycle || Refers to a single cold/warm cycle on the [[Orb Vallis]], conceptually equivalent to a "day"
+|-
+| Deadhead || Empty ship with no cargo<ref name="tennocon" />
 |-
 | Eyeball || To see something
 |-
 | Fatboy || Heavy-duty cargo ship/tractor
+|-
+| Gib-faced || Unattractive<ref name="tennocon" />
 |-
 | Go-go juice || Fuel
 |-
 | Got your ears on? || "Anyone listening/anyone on comms?"
+|-
+| Furball || Group of Grineer<ref name="tennocon" />
 |-
 | Hab || A Solaris colony like Fortuna<ref name="fortuna" />
@@ Line 50: / Line 62: @@
 |-
 | Jockey || A driver/pilot of a ship<ref name="fortuna" />
+|-
+| Lugger || A person who carries heavy equipment from one place to another<ref name="tennocon" />
 |-
 | Keep the shiny side up || "Have a safe trip/don't have an accident"<ref name="tennocon" />
+|-
+| Manifest || Document
 |-
 | Meat wagon || Ambulance<ref name="tennocon" />
@@ Line 60: / Line 76: @@
 |-
 | Mucking || Vulgar slang to express anger or disgust
+|-
+| Old mate || "Friend" or "this person here"<ref name="tennocon" />
+|-
+| Organic || Living things
 |-
 | Outworlder || A foreigner
@@ Line 69: / Line 89: @@
 | Rail agents || Solaris United tractor jockeys who use the [[Solar Rail]]s<ref name="tennocon" />
 |-
-| Repo (noun) || Pejorative, one who has be subjected to limb repossession<ref name="tennocon" />
+| Repo (noun) || Pejorative, one who has been subjected to limb repossession<ref name="tennocon" />
 |-
 | Repo (verb) || Short for repossession, a process where Corpus take away body parts and replace it with mechanical ones for debt collateral
@@ Line 76: / Line 96: @@
 |-
 | Rig jockey || Solaris worker
+|-
+| Rubbernecking || slowing down to gaze at something<ref name="tennocon" />
 |-
 | Silver stamps || Rail agent lingo for [[credits]] payment<ref name="tennocon" />
@@ Line 83: / Line 105: @@
 | Sprog || Children<ref name="fortuna" />
 |-
-| Sumper || Someone who works in the sumps, lowest level<ref name="tennocon" />
+| Sumper || Someone who works in the sumps, lowest level job<ref name="tennocon" />
 |-
 | Taxman || [[Corpus]]
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 |-
 | Tractor race || Two rail agents competing for same contract<ref name="tennocon" />
+|-
+| Triple digits || High speed<ref name="tennocon" />
 |-
 | Whisper network || Spy network, usually referring to [[Solaris United]] informants<ref name="tennocon" />
+|-
+| Wide-bore || Turbocharged/with great force<ref name="tennocon" />
 |-
 | Wotsit/whatsit || "What is it"
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 20191127162107 1.jpg|Need crehdihts? Tawkh too Nehf (Need credits? Talk to Nef)
 FactionSigilVentkidsLevel5 b.png|Vehnt kihdz (Vent kids)
+ConservationBadge.png|Critter Company
+VallisBirdAndBeastEmblem.png|Quaking Swamps
 SolarisUnitedSlangTennocon2019.jpg|A list of slang from [[TennoCon/2019|TennoCon 2019]]
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Solaris United
Characters	Boon • Cutter • Eudico (Vox) • Solaris United Agent
Vendors	Legs • Rude Zuud • Smokefinger • The Business • Ticker
Allied Vendors	Little Duck • Roky
Fortuna • Deck 12 • Orb Vallis • Solari Language • Ventkids • Vox Solaris