Sycoraxic

Sycoraxic, or simply Sycorax, (AUDIO: Harvest of the Sycorax) was the language of the Sycorax and the only language that they used, believing that other languages were "primitive bile". UNIT was able to create a program that could translate it. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)

Words

Titles and statuses

The following are titles and names given to members of the Sycorax and to the Doctor. (COMIC: The Widow's Curse)

• Fadros Pallujikaa - Tribal Leader
• Haxan Craw - the name given to the wife of the Tribal Leader, meaning "The Witch Bitch". The Haxan Craw referred to Donna Noble as the "Human Haxan Craw".
• Gilfane Craw - the name given to the female technician in the female tribe.
• Practeel chiff cha - the name given to the Doctor by the Haxan Craw, meaning "Happy Murderer".

Miscellaneous

Below is a short list of some useful transliterated basic words in the Sycoraxic language. (TV: The Christmas Invasion; PROSE: Doctor Who Files 4: The Sycorax, Judge, Jury and Executioner; AUDIO: Harvest of the Sycorax et al)

English	Sycoraxic
Aboard/Onboard	Foraxi
And	Vel
Another	Col
Astrophia	Astrofaaa
Black box (of ship)	Foraxi yox
Blonde/Yellow	Bass
Blood	Sinon
Blue	Creffic
Box	Tagsalla
Cattle/Hostage	Pantak/Gatzaa
Choice	Codsyla
Christmas	Craffor
Clever	Gilfana
Die	Chak chiff
Final	Bakthaa
Funny/Happy	Practeel
Half	Gatrosca
Murderer	Chiff cha
Next	Bataa/Baktaa
No	Non
Of	Kon/Da
Offer	Kastriik
Open	Talvaan
Or	Kol
Property	Pantak/Katsaa
Slave	Velis
Slavery	Velisikol
Stolen	Stapeen
Summon	Kelprak
Surrender	Jalvaaan
Sycorax Armada	Sycorafan Staa
Third	Koska
Tribal leader	Fadros Pallujikaa
Unless	Pel
Very	Gan
Yes	Ta
You (are)	(Ka) soo
You [plural]	Soodra
Vault	Gralta
Wasteland	Belvash
We	Kodra
We are	Kodrafee
We know	Konafee
Weak	Jak
Welcome	Padskaa
Women	Pandack
Who	Vo
Word	Vol
You	So

Other

Below are some other words mentioned by two tribes of Sycorax. (PROSE: Doctor Who Files 4: The Sycorax, COMIC: The Widow's Curse)

• Kiskfaa - a unit of distance used by the Sycorax
• Slinkjaak - an object received by the Sycorax as a reward after a trade
• Kojux-flap - the small technical panel on the outside of a Sycorax ship
• Torkfish - a small, skeletal creature that wrapped around a prisoner's neck. It only released its grip when it had killed its prey.

Phrases

Below is a short list of phrases used by the Sycorax during their invasion of Earth in Christmas 2006, that were translated into English. (TV: The Christmas Invasion, PROSE: Doctor Who Files 4: The Sycorax)

English	Sycoraxic
Yes, we know who you are.	Ta, konafee tedro soo.
Sycorax strong! Sycorax mighty! Sycorax rock!	Sycora jak! Sycora telpo! Sycora kaar!
Surrender, or they will die.	Jalvaan, kol jak chiff.
Half are sold into slavery or one third dies.	Katros ka vendi velisikol koska jak chiff.
Bring it on board.	Krel stat foraxi
We are the Sycorax. We stride the darkness.	Kodrafee Sykora. Gasak tel felika.
Will the leader of this world stand forward?	Vekaan soo Fadros Pallujikaa pelda pelomnik?
If you wish to live, surrender your vault to us now.	Soo gralta jalvaan mi kodrakon kaas.
You are our property. Choose. Surrender the vault or die.	So[o] kaa da kodra pantak. Kod syla! Gralta jalvaan got jak chiff.
What is wrong with your species? Your blood is weak!	Vasprin diisaa? Soodra da sinon jak!
You must give us access to your vault.	Gralta jalvaan, gralta rashtaak.
And who is next?	Vel vo sii bataa?
We don't care.	Kodra fiinon paseek.
You are a very funny slave.	Soo gan praktil venis.

Insults

There is at least one insult in the Sycorax community. It is as of yet unknown what is means, however, it seems to be very hurtful. When the Tenth Doctor challenged the leader of the Sycorax to a battle for planet Earth, he used this insult to push the Sycorax leader's anger even further.

Sycoraxic
Kralak pel gasak kree salvak

Behind the scenes

Grammar

From a linguistic point of view, Sycoraxic shares similarities to Welsh, in the fact that it has no indefinite article, such as "a" or "an". Furthermore, it also uses no definite articles, such as "the".

Soo gan praktil venis.

You are [a] very funny slave.

Kelprak venis Iisaak.

Summon [the] slave called Ishak.

It appears that some adjectives have different forms depending on whether they are in front of a noun or alone. Prakchilo and praktil both mean 'funny', however prakchilo has been observed to change to praktil when used before a noun.

Following the theme of missing words, Sycoraxic is a context based language. It relies on the listener and speaker both understanding the situation so that they can both ignore the need of an auxiliary or basic verb to form compound tenses and basic sentences.

Soo kodsyla.

You [have] [a] choice.

Soo gralta jalvaan [...]

You[r] vault [will be] surrendered.