Reference desk
Part VII: Reference
This part is the book you keep open while speaking. The teaching is done; what follows is the whole language arranged for the moment you need it mid-sentence.
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
quick_reference_grammar.md | The whole grammar on one page |
compounds.md | Every canonized compound idiom and why it stays compositional (generated) |
lexicon/alphabetical.md | Every word from A to Z (generated) |
lexicon/by_domain.md | Content words by semantic domain (generated) |
lexicon/by_module.md | Optional vocabulary grouped by domain module (generated) |
lexicon/by_pos.md | All words by part of speech (generated) |
modules/ | Speaker-facing explanations and usage guides for optional domain vocabulary |
sample_texts.md | Dialogues, a poem, and the guide to the texts shelf |
The four lexicon files are generated from the entry JSON under vocabulary/, and compounds.md comes from documents/reference/compounds.md. These five files are views of their source material and should not be edited by hand. After any vocabulary or registry change:
python3 scripts/generate_reference.py
How Phi is written is chapter 8 ยง6: romanization and the Tengwar mode. The Tengwar mode is taught glyph by glyph in pamphlets/tengwar_mode/, whose pages render every line in both scripts.