Appendix: quick reference

The particles, at a glance

The templates

• Call by name: kona [ne] [honorific] [name]. By role: kona [role]. (no ne, ever, on a role)
• The chain order: kona, then ne, then the honorific, then the name; an honorific present makes ne optional.
• Introduce a content-word name: [whose] nomei ne [content word] nai. Example: mia nomei ne keruko nai.
• Introduce a productive name: [whose] nomei ne [two/three/four-syllable onym] nai. Example: mia nomei ne samira nai.
• Introduce a bounded external name: [whose] nomei ne hasha [adapted] hasho nai. or [whose] nomei ne patha [exact] patho nai.
• Ask: thia nomei hina nai. More politely: pi thia nomei hina nai.
• The call alone is a complete utterance: kona ni moli.

The register rules, one line each

• A name atom may be a listed content word, one productive Phi-form onym, or a complete external frame.
• A productive onym is lowercase, one token, two, three, or four legal Phi syllables, and has no lexicon meaning; every listed non-content form is strictly reserved.
• Validate a proposed form with python3 scripts/validate_examples.py name FORM; acceptance confirms shape and reservation status, not bearer consent.
• Formal, neutral, portable, and validated Phi announces every mention; conversation may omit ne after the referent is established and while reference remains unambiguous.
• The primer household's threshold pattern is an optional cultural style built on that discourse license.
• Keeping ne is never cold; dropping it is a license, not a duty.
• An honorific announces your relationship, never their rank; there is no upward, so nothing can be omitted upward.
• ni unearned is a claim; sa on a peer is distance; plain ne costs nothing, always.
• The grammar imposes no special naming rule on absent, remembered, or dead bearers.
• No capitals in core or guest material: what capitals do for names, ne does aloud. Exact payload may preserve source case inside its marked frame.

The cast

Vocabulary of this pamphlet

Cross-references

• Doctrine: the manual, ch9 §5 (Slot 2: ne and the honorifics); ch21 §§1–5 (the vocative, politeness, the honorific system, register, the field guide); ch10 §5 (questions, for hina).
• Canon: ne licenses a name atom; Productive Phi-form onyms; The external register; Letters; Punctuation.
• The corpus this pamphlet reads: primer chapters 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, and 22; manual ch18 §4 and ch19 §§2–3; the texts shelf, where the cast's words go on working unannounced.
• The particle inventory: documents/grammar/particle_reference.md.