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
- in
- tu
- stri
- hetz
- fick
- west
- heft
- ust
- nyu
- 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
- jishi master
- kam marriage
- krep baby, infant
- mostra mother
- nemfi spouse, husband or wife
- prostra brother
- resh monarch, king
- rishna queen
- shon woman, adult female
- swerra sister
- thearm person, sapient being
- tokstra daughter
- tual slave
- 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
