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
• esti to be
• hesh to have
• maki to be able to, can
• offaru to exist
• shen to become
• shkroy to do
• skul should, ought to
• yomza to cause, to make (as in "make someone happy")

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

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