Domain modules
Accessibility and Participation
The meeting notice arrives after the meeting has begun. The doorway opens, but there is no room to turn beyond it. Someone offers help before asking what kind would help. None of these facts describes a defective person. They describe the route between a person and an activity, and that route can change.
Accessibility and Participation gives Phi speakers optional words for that route: what can be reached or used, what gets in the way, how information arrives, how time is arranged, and whose direction governs support. It uses ordinary Phi grammar throughout, and a speaker who has not learned it can always ask for a core paraphrase.
The chapter table below introduces 30 roots. Shared classifications bring the current learning list to 46 words; the complete machine-generated list is available under Accessibility and Participation in the module lexicon. The JSON entries in vocabulary/content/ remain authoritative for each word's form and full definition.
Core vocabulary used by the module
The module begins with the words already in the room: a new access term does not replace the person, action, place, or choice that gives it sense.
| Area | Core Phi resources |
|---|---|
| Agency | kanu choose, lesawi consent, naweri refuse, nawo agree, kelomi accept, thekao acknowledge, ralu free, phelona require, kawhera coerce, whepelo retaliate |
| Participation | pawela participate, shorema contribute, pharune include, nuawe together, panoru support, naphe help |
| Communication | sheori communicate, haolu speak, hea hear, thekiro write, theo read, shelomu understand, lilea clarify, shorela rephrase, shelao summarize |
| Time | thimu time, phoe before, pheo after, hasi wait, therilu rest, thilonu prepare, sheru slow, winora plan, hasoru pending |
| Movement and place | ponu door, ruela path, shoeka route, lokue place, koema enter, wepu go, losha wide, hieru narrow |
| Safety and evidence | shurano safe, pukea danger, masue measure, siru marker, sirami record, sherewa claim, thesori evidence, remotha reason, kirema criterion, hi direct evidence, ke inference, ti report, ho assumption |
| Material conditions | howenu weather, muralo material, panuri resource |
Commons and Collective Governance supplies representation, roles, authority, authorization, procedure, decisions, notice, and review. Work, Craft, and Repair supplies schedules, deadlines, design, specifications, testing, capacity, and workload. Systems and Shared Infrastructure supplies interfaces, reliability, redundancy, and technical state. Ecological Systems and Material Life supplies keruma illumination when received light itself must be compared; legibility, wayfinding, comfort, and access still require the person and activity. Medical and Bodily Care supplies health vocabulary when health is actually the subject. The base table already holds ordinary planning, records, material conditions, and abuses of power.
Disabled belongs to shared core
sowelu names disabled identity or a lived relation between personal characteristics and barriers. It is base vocabulary rather than an optional module word because a person should not need specialist study to name themselves.
mia sowelu nai.
1SG disabled be.
The word leaves the choice of identity with the person. It can sit beside a more exact community, cultural, legal, or personal term preserved in its source form, and it does not turn disability into sickness. murethi impairment is narrower and belongs to the module; it names a stated functional difference without deciding identity or participation.
Roots introduced in this chapter
| Phi | Part of speech | Working sense | Essential contrast |
|---|---|---|---|
ruweli | verb | access a place, resource, communication, service, or activity | pawela begins with taking part; ruweli may end at reaching or using. |
lokane | adjective | accessible for a stated person and activity | The claim is relational, so a route can work for one journey and fail another. |
kopharu | noun | barrier that blocks or burdens access | norui marks a boundary; kopharu gets in the way of an action. |
hinawu | verb | accommodate a stated access requirement | hinolu is adaptation in general; hinawu answers a person's access relation. |
murethi | noun | impairment as a stated functional difference or limitation | An impairment may matter to access without settling disability or diagnosis. |
ralemi | adjective | independent under one's own direction | Independence can include chosen tools and support; sonu only says someone is alone. |
naphelu | adjective | assistive for a chosen function or access requirement | naphe is an act of help; naphelu describes the role of a tool or practice. |
kelasu | adjective | usable by a stated person for a stated purpose | Something can be reached and still fail at the point of use. |
thosami | adjective | compatible across a stated interface and purpose | Compatibility is a pairing, not a promise of access or reliability. |
loshenu | noun | clearance available for passage or operation | tholu is open space; clearance belongs to a particular movement and object. |
runaki | verb | wayfind through a physical or informational place | kulo guides someone; runaki keeps the traveler as the one finding the way. |
phelotu | noun | format in which content is presented and received | The format can change while wording, language, and practical effect remain open questions. |
thekasi | verb | caption speech and meaningful sound in time with an event | sitheku can preserve language in writing without following the event's timing. |
sitheku | verb | transcribe language into stable text | A transcription can stand after the speech; captions travel beside it. |
shoraku | verb | interpret between languages or communication modes | shorela rephrases; interpretation crosses a language or mode boundary. |
palethu | adjective | tactile enough for touch to do the relevant perceptual work | palo names contact; palethu names information available through that contact. |
samethu | adjective | equivalent in a selected meaning, function, or effect | Equivalent forms can remain different; senao makes a broader sameness claim. |
thewuni | adjective | legible to a stated reader under stated conditions | Reading is the act; legibility belongs to what meets the reader. |
hewasu | adjective | audible to a stated listener under stated conditions | Loudness is one condition among others; audibility names the result for the listener. |
thimelo | noun | pace of an activity or exchange | A schedule places events; pace describes how one of them moves through time. |
hasenu | noun | recess within an activity that is expected to resume | therilu is rest; a recess belongs to the structure of the larger event. |
wiresu | verb | postpone an activity or decision to a later time | Waiting can occur inside an unchanged plan; postponement changes the plan. |
thunesi | adjective | asynchronous across contributions made at different times | Different timing does not make the contribution partial or secondary. |
sanowu | adjective | predictable from information available beforehand | Reliability concerns repeated function; predictability concerns what can be known ahead. |
pushali | verb | overload a person or system beyond current capacity | ritako names expected work; overload names the point where input becomes too much to carry through. |
misharo | verb | consult someone before acting | Consultation gives an answer practical weight without assigning final authority. |
pharomu | verb | exclude from a group, place, resource, activity, or process | It is the outward-moving counterpart of pharune include. |
wheparu | verb | discriminate through an actual, assigned, or perceived category | Exclusion names one effect; discrimination identifies the category-shaped disadvantage. |
sirelu | verb | disclose information beyond its previous boundary | shane tells an account; disclosure changes who may know it. |
shaweri | verb | advocate for a person, cause, change, or stated position | shalori represents under a claimed mandate; advocacy needs no such authority. |
The ordinary event-noun rule supplies access, accommodation, captioning, transcription, interpretation, postponement, overload, consultation, exclusion, discrimination, disclosure, and advocacy as events or results. The quality-noun rule supplies accessibility, disability, independence, compatibility, tactility, equivalence, legibility, audibility, asynchrony, and predictability.
Access is a relation
ruweli takes the thing reached or used as its object. A speaker can access a route, a tool, a document, a service, or a meeting. The verb does not pretend those acts are identical; the surrounding sentence says what access amounts to here.
mia ha shoeka ruweli.
1SG PROX route access.
lokane turns that relation into a quality claim. The person and activity may be obvious in a short exchange, but they return as soon as the claim is disputed.
ha shoeka lokane nai.
PROX route accessible be.
kopharu puts the obstruction where it acts. In the doorway scenario, the narrow entrance is the barrier. In the later meeting, the late document and immediate demand for a decision do the same work without occupying any floor space.
ha ponu kopharu nai.
PROX door barrier be.
An accommodation is one response to that relation. hinawu names the actual change, not a ceremonial offer of help.
lo mia ha phelona hinawu.
PL 1SG PROX require accommodate.
The exact legal category reasonable accommodation remains source material when legal force matters. Phi's hinawu is the ordinary action: change this route, timing, format, or practice for this access requirement.
Disability, impairment, and direction
murethi describes a functional difference or limitation. The speaker may name it because it matters, decline to name it, or preserve another source term. Access can still be discussed either way.
mia ha murethi thelima.
1SG PROX impairment describe.
ralemi is independence as direction over an act. It can include another person's assistance, a ramp built by a community, or a device maintained by many hands. Dependence and interdependence remain ordinary facts; neither gives someone else the steering wheel.
mia roe ha naphelu keli ralemi nai.
1SG INS PROX assistive device independent be.
naphelu describes the role of that device in the chosen activity. A cane, caption display, communication board, or ordinary phone may be assistive in context. The adjective says what the thing supports, not what kind of person owns it.
Use, fit, and movement
An object can be on the table and still resist the person expected to use it. kelasu names use in practice.
ha keli kelasu nai.
PROX device usable be.
thosami belongs between things. Two devices, a document and reader, or an interface and input method may be compatible for one task. That pairing can fail after a version change or under another purpose.
lo keli thosami nai.
PL device compatible be.
loshenu is the room a particular movement needs. The bare measurement matters, but so do the door's swing, the turn beyond it, and the object passing through.
ha ponu loshenu phelu.
PROX door clearance hold.
runaki follows cues through space. Markers may be visual, audible, tactile, or remembered; the verb remains with the traveler.
mia roe lo siru runaki.
1SG INS PL marker wayfind.
Communication has a form
phelotu names the form in which content arrives. A format can be spoken, written, tactile, captioned, signed, recorded, or built from several modes. The name of a signed language, Braille system, file type, or technical protocol stays outside the Phi passage when its exact identity matters.
mia ha palethu phelotu kanu.
1SG PROX tactile format choose.
thekasi and sitheku both move language into readable form. Captions keep time with the event and carry meaningful sound beyond dialogue. A transcription can be made during the event or afterward and may stand as its own document.
lo mia ha haolu thekasi.
PL 1SG PROX speak caption.
shia ha haolu sitheku.
3SG PROX speak transcribe.
shoraku carries meaning between languages or modes. The interpreter's choices remain open to correction, and interpreting does not turn into representing someone merely because their words pass through another person.
shia ha phelui shoraku.
3SG PROX word interpret.
What can be perceived
palethu, thewuni, and hewasu do not name kinds of people. They name what a format or signal makes available through touch, reading, or hearing under stated conditions.
ha thekiro thewuni nai.
PROX write legible be.
ha haolu hewasu nai.
PROX speak audible be.
Two versions may be samethu equivalent for a selected purpose without matching everywhere. A summary and full transcript may both answer one question while only one preserves every hesitation or speaker change.
lo phelotu samethu nai.
PL format equivalent be.
Equivalence therefore carries its comparison with it. Meaning, function, effect, timing, and interaction can each produce a different answer.
Time can open or close participation
thimelo is the pace inside an event. Slower is not always better, but treating one speed as natural can turn reading, interpretation, movement, or thought into a race nobody agreed to enter.
ha thimelo sheru nai.
PROX pace slow be.
hasenu cuts out a bounded interval and leaves the larger event intact. A recess may make room for rest, private discussion, interpretation repair, or a change of format.
lona hasenu phelu.
meeting recess hold.
wiresu moves the event itself. It can protect participation or become another form of exclusion, depending on who bears the changed time and whether a new plan exists.
lo mia ha lona wiresu.
PL 1SG PROX meeting postpone.
thunesi lets contributions arrive at different times. sanowu gives participants something stable enough to prepare around. Together they describe a process that need not demand simultaneous presence or surprise.
ha shorema thunesi nai.
PROX contribute asynchronous be.
ha thimora sanowu nai.
PROX schedule predictable be.
pushali names the point where input or demand outruns current capacity. The same person may meet that point sooner in pain, noise, fatigue, or unfamiliar surroundings. The word belongs to the relation between demand and capacity, not to a moral account of endurance.
lo phelui mia pushali.
PL word 1SG overload.
Participation and power
misharo gives an affected person's answer a place before action. It is stronger than asking for appearances and weaker than handing over the decision.
lo mia thia misharo.
PL 1SG 2SG consult.
pharomu names exclusion whether it comes from a locked door, a missing format, a rule, or a decision taken before a contribution arrives. wheparu adds the category-shaped relation of discrimination.
shia mia pharomu.
3SG 1SG exclude.
shia mia wheparu.
3SG 1SG discriminate.
Exact legal definitions remain with their jurisdiction and source text. Phi can still name the act, who bore it, the category used, and what access or participation changed.
sirelu matters because asking for access often exposes personal information. A request for a different chair or format does not silently authorize disclosure of disability, health, or identity information.
mia ha sirami sirelu.
1SG PROX record disclose.
shaweri can be first person. It can also describe another person adding support to an expressed position. The word keeps advocacy apart from shalori representation, which claims a mandate to act or communicate on someone's behalf.
mia wei thia shaweri.
1SG DAT 2SG advocate.
Useful compositions
Some access ideas read better with their parts showing.
| Concept | Phi strategy | What remains visible |
|---|---|---|
| Access requirement | ruweli or lokane with phelona and the exact activity | The person, action, conditions, and requested change stay available. |
| Advance notice | Commons shanewi notify with an explicit clause placing it before the event | The actual interval matters more than the label. |
| Processing or thinking time | remo, theo, hasi, and thimu in separate clauses | Reading, thought, waiting, and the later decision do not collapse into one capacity claim. |
| Decision support | panoru support with Commons kanuro decision and the chosen action | Support remains separate from representation, authorization, and final choice. |
| Proxy action | shalori, loatho, kanuwa, and lesawi where each relation fits | Speaking for, delegated action, authority, and consent keep their own sources and limits. |
| Assistive device | naphelu keli | The device's supporting role remains connected to a chosen function. |
| Accessible design | lokane with Work noporu design and the people and activities considered | A universal claim does not hide whose use was tested. |
| Spoken description | haolu with thelima describe | The content, speaker, timing, and intended listener remain ordinary clauses. |
| Communication preference | phelotu with kaeli like or kanu choose | Preference and actual access remain different claims. |
Source material keeps its own name
Names of signed languages, Braille systems, devices, standards, software, file formats, legal duties, access plans, identity terms, and exact measurements remain outside the Phi passage when their source form matters. Phi can point to the source item and say that a format is tactile, a route has clearance, a device is compatible, or an accommodation was requested.
The broad word sowelu does not replace a person's chosen identity term. hinawu does not reproduce the legal test carried by a source phrase such as reasonable accommodation. thekasi does not claim conformance with a captioning standard. The Phi words describe practical relations; the source material keeps its own authority and precision.
The document arrives the day before, and the doorway has room for the device to turn. Nobody is carried without being asked. Only then does pawela stop being a promise and become what someone can do.