Nother/Sirius

Description

A sort of auxlang for furries.

• Homepage: Siriuslang — Yahoo! Group

• Author: Muke Tever | ✎

Pronunciation and Spelling

• The accent goes on the first syllable of the word.

Vowels

There are five vowels: a e i o u These may be pronounced as in Spanish or Italian, with the exception that a is a schwa (IPA: /ə/), as in the English word cut.

E and o may also be pronounced as /æ/ and /ɑ/ respectively (the vowels of American English "cat" and "paw").

Consonants

f h j k l m n ng p r s sh t th w y z

These are all pronounced with their English values, with two exceptions:

• j is /ʒ/ as in “Asia”, (the same as in French)
• z is pronounced like “ts”, (the same as in German).

Sometimes consonants are written double: ff, ck, ll, rr, tt, tz, etc. This is generally just a reminder of the pronunciation; the letters are not pronounced double.

Grammar

Pronouns

Like Japanese, Sirius does not require pronouns in most places, especially when context is enough. Instead you can use a name, species, title, or whatever.

Like English, Sirius pronouns have different forms for subject and object, but unlike English they are not marked for person or number; thus there is no difference between "I" and "she" and "they"; hi is used for all of them.

However, a distinction is made between in-character (IC) and out-of-character (OOC) pronouns. There are also possessive forms.

	subject	subj. poss.	object	obj. poss.
IC	heu	herru	zomu	zorru
OOC	hi	hear	zom	zor

Lexicon

Thematic Vocabulary

Colors

• fi gray
• foffar purple
• hin dark blue
• horn black
• luk white
• narj orange
• ror red
• sath brown
• siar green
• sol yellow

To indicate a lighter color, add fol "pale" before, thus fol ror "pink", fol hin "light blue", etc.

Function words

• asha this
• atsha that
• e if
• esti to be
• fanzi every, each
• he that (as in "I know that you are right"); why? for what reason?
• hesh to have
• hetzak any
• hi and
• hiyu how?
• ho together; when? at what time?
• hoj where? at/to what place?
• inu only, solely, exclusively
• maki to be able to, can
• ne not
• offaru to exist
• she also, too
• shen to become
• shkroy to do
• skul should, ought to
• teck apart, separately
• we or
• welraz but, however
• wishar maybe, perhaps, possibly
• yoj here (in/to this place)
• yomza to cause, to make (as in "make someone happy")
• zoj there (at/to this place)

Numbers

1. in
2. tu
3. stri
4. hetz
5. fick
6. west
7. heft
8. ust
9. nyu
10. jest

• 20 tuar, 30 striar, 40 hetzar, 50 fickar, 60 westar, 70 heftar, 80 ustar, 90 nyuar

• 100 satz

• 1000 ashal

e.g., 357 = stri-satz fickar heft

People

• ari man, adult male
• festra father
• fet boy, young male
• hafsha chief, leader
• hun son
• huarla girl, young female
• kam marriage
• krep baby, infant
• mostra mother
• nemfi spouse, husband or wife
• prostra brother
• shon woman, adult female
• swerra sister
• thearm person, sapient being
• tokstra daughter
• wiri family
• yowiar child, young person

Prepositions

• a to, towards
• af about, on the topic of; from, out of, away from
• afshar after, later than; farther than, beyond
• es outside of
• fa on, on top of
• far in front of, before
• fe at
• fershar near, close to
• for before, earlier than
• frosh around
• fru through
• furo across, at/to the other side of
• ho between, among, amid
• hock during, while
• metz with, using, by means of
• na in, located inside of
• ne for, in exchange for
• nef instead of, rather than
• nemetz without
• of of
• offar above, over
• ofshar under, below, beneath
• ofjaz behind, in back of
• welraz except for, besides, other than
• yommu because of; for, for the purpose of
• yusho like, similar to
• zashar than, compared to

Species

• linz lion
• minz cat
• olf fox
• ollu wolf
• or otter (riw or, river otter; mori or, sea otter)
• samna human
• scorristar kangaroo
• son dog
• tronz dragon
• tweffij anthro or biped
• zeckar tiger