The linguistics of the Cloran language are reasonably simple. Most words have no more than two syllables, with rare exceptions such as Grallion and Magorran. Most first names on Cloral are monosyllabic and only have two letters; only a few, such as Benn, Per, and Ginja had more than two letters, and Ginja is the only known non-monosyllabic Cloran first name. With rare exceptions, last names have only two syllables.
The language in the city of Faar is slightly more complex. Last names are more likely to have three syllables, such as Kalaloo and Abador.
The three most common vowels in the Cloran language are a, o, and u. The former two commonly were used as double letters. A wide variety of consonants are used.
Additionally some of the words are very much like Second Earth language. For example,here are some sayings that are frequently used in Cloral:
- tum-tigger - this describes a bad situation or problem
- hobey-ho - roughly means "Let's go!"
- hobey - somewhat similar to "Wow!"
- natty-do - a fight
- spiff - neat, clean, easy
- wogglies - trouble-makers or predators
- peck - 20 minutes of Earth time
- snappy-do - easy