| Language Name | Kiffish |
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| Language Author | C.J. Cherryh; Spence Hill |
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| Year Began | 1998 |
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| Site | Kiffish  |
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| Broken Link | No |
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| Site Language | English |
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| Site Author | CJ Cherryh/Spence Hill |
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| Language Type | professional fictional language |
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| Editorial | Popular science-fiction author C.J. Cherryh sketched out Kiffish for the "bad guys" in her "Chanur" series. With her permission, linguist Spence Hill added details to the language, based on her documentation of the anatomy and culture of the Kiff themselves. Besides being ergative, Kiffish is a synthetic language, rather than an agglutinative or order-bound language. |
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| Uniqueness | This is the joint effort CJ Cherryh as seen in the "Chanur" series and completed by Spence Hill, a linguist. |
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| Language Sources | Primarily the created anatomy and culture of the Kiff themselves. |
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| Design Principles | A synthetic, rather than agglutnative or order bound, language with an Urgative/absolutative make up rather than nominative/accusative. |
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| Interest Of Others | Those who have read the Science Fiction of CJ Cherryh. <> |
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| Conculture Noun Phrase | the Kif of C.J. Cherryh's Chanur series |
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| Quotation | Ginkt-ku umankt-kkt Tera-kta kkisf-ok ruk-ku kkoiskk-otk ruk-ku trakk-ska, tha. |
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| Explanation | [all/adj] [human/pl] [Earth/gen] [speak/past] [one/adj] [language/abs.] [one/adj] [way/instr] [reported] |
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| Translation | It is reported that all humans of Earth spoke one language in one way. |
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| Dictionary | No |
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| Etymologies | No |
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| Grammar | No |
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| Sample Texts | No |
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| Unique Script | No |
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| Primer | No |
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| Babel Text | No |
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| Submitted By | Spence Hill |
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