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.)

Articles

Sirius does not use words for an or the. This may be confusing at first; it may be easier to think of it as sounding like newspaper headlines (Man dies in fire).

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