Phi pamphlets — Appendix: quick reference

ReferenceThe particles, at a glance

Particle	Gloss	Duty
`ne`	NAME	announces that the next atom is a proper designation
`kona`	VOC	opens the channel: I am addressing you, before any name lands
`sa`	HON.RESPECT	reports your respect for a mentor or elder
`ni`	HON.INTIM	claims earned closeness
`le`	HON.ROLE	recognizes a person in a current community role

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 [onym of two to four syllables] nai. Example: mia nomei ne samira nai.
Preserve a preferred name with five or more syllables, multiple tokens, a non-Phi shape, or dependence on another script outside the Phi passage unless its bearer or naming community accepts a valid onym.
Ask: thia nomei hina nai. More politely: pi thia nomei hina nai.
The call alone is a complete utterance: kona ni moli.

A Phi name token may be a listed content word or one productive Phi-form onym.
A productive onym is lowercase, one token, has two, three, or four legal Phi syllables, and has no lexicon meaning. If it matches a current lexicon entry, that entry must be a content word; a form absent from the current lexicon follows the ordinary charter.
Validate a proposed form with python3 scripts/validate_examples.py name FORM; acceptance confirms shape and current lexical 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 occur in Phi: what capitals do for names, ne does aloud. Separately presented source names retain the case and script of their own medium.

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; Source material remains outside Phi; Letters; Punctuation.
The corpus this pamphlet reads: primer chapters 13, 16, 17, and 19 through 22; manual ch18 §4 and ch19 §§2 and 3; the texts shelf, where the cast's words go on working unannounced.
The particle inventory: documents/grammar/particle_reference.md.