Phi pamphlets — Appendix: quick reference

ReferenceThe personal inventory

Person	Singular	Plural
first	`mia` (I, me)	`lo mia` (we, us)
second	`thia` (you)	`lo thia` (you all)
third	`shia` (another, it)	`lo shia` (they, them)

One form per person, in every role: subject, object, prepositional object, possessor. Position announces the role.

ReferenceThe object pair

Word	Gloss	Position	Says
`miso`	REFL	object	the action returns to each actor
`wiso`	RECP	object	the action passes between the actors

wiso requires a plural subject, built with lo or nela coordination.

ReferenceThe pointing pair

Use	Near	Far
before a noun	`ha melu` (this friend)	`ra tomora` (that mountain)
as a place, with `nai`	`mia ha nai.` (I am here)	`shia ra nai.` (they are there)
alone, plural	`lo ha` (these)	`lo ra` (those)
in time	`ha philo` (today)	`ra torua` (that year)

Before a noun the deictic leads; standing alone, lo leads.

ReferenceWorking rules

A bare pronoun opening a predicate clause is the subject; ownership as its own claim takes phelu, and a possessor inside a larger phrase reads cleanly.
Two plurals in one clause keep their seats: the first lo phrase is the subject, the second the object.
lo mia gathers the speaker and others; membership is said aloud when it matters, by nela coordination or a contrast clause.
Topic-drop needs a subject established and recoverable; the drop is always optional, and shia stands ready when a third person needs saying.
Frames and relative clauses hand a subject forward exactly as a period does; whu itself never drops.
The moment two referents compete, restore the noun or the pronoun rather than leave the listener to choose.

ReferenceVocabulary in this pamphlet

Word	Say it	Meaning
`sano`	sa · no	know
`lothea`	lo · the · a	love
`whaline`	wha · li · ne	thank
`naphe`	na · phe	help
`theala`	the · a · la	heal
`thumela`	thu · me · la	teach
`shelomu`	she · lo · mu	understand
`phelu`	phe · lu	hold
`lohau`	lo · ha · u	dog
`shelu`	she · lu	book
`tomora`	to · mo · ra	mountain
`thena`	the · na	thing
`shelira`	she · li · ra	forest
`thape`	tha · pe	burn
`therilu`	the · ri · lu	rest

ReferenceCross-references

Manual chapter 13 owns the doctrine, topic-drop included
Manual chapter 20 for the relative clauses that hand a subject forward
canon.md for the clause-initial pronoun ruling, the predicative deictics, and the phrase-internal orders
The naming pamphlet for names, honorifics, and the vocative; the complementizers pamphlet for subject drop around its frames
Validate any Phi you write with python3 scripts/validate_examples.py

Three pronouns, two object words, two pointers, one particle for the plural: nine small words, and every person who will ever stand in a Phi sentence is already provided for. The rest is knowing when even these can rest, and the language trusts you with that decision every time you speak.