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

Question words

The most important thing to be able to do is ask questions.

The basic question words are —

her?	who?
het?	what?
hoj?	where?
ho?	when?
he?	why?
hiyu?	how?
hashar?	how much?

Example:

• Het atsha? What's that?

(You can use esti "to be" here, thus Het esti atsha? — but it isn't necessary to.)

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

• see Sirius/Lexicon