Clofabosin/Middle

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Old Clofabosin is the oldest attested form of Clofabosin. The dialect that borrowed loans en masse from Dodellian became Middle Clofabosin.

Clofabian Vowel Shift (CVS): e o a > ə A æ > eo a e > o a e

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Velar Labiovelar
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ [ŋ]
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ c, k /k/ qu /kʷ/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ g /g/
Fricative voiceless ph, f /f/ th /θ/ s /s/
ŝ /sʰ/
ch /x/
voiced z /z/
Trill r /r/
Approximant l /l/ v /w/

Old Clofabosin had geminates, unlike modern Clofabosin: for example, 'to learn' was nibbuvir (modern nịbuvir).

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i /i/, y /y/ u /u/
Mid e /e/ o /o/
Open a /a/

By the time of Middle Clofabosin, /y/ had merged with /i/.

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

  • -in = topic marker
  • -ol = genitive; -o = combining form
  • -ase = with
  • -one = towards

Verbs

  • -ir = present: tpoir = 'eats'
  • -zole = stative: tpozole = 'has eaten'
  • -capt, -cept = dynamic: tpocapt = 'comes to eat'
  • -il = attributive
    • tpoil = who eats
  • -ium = neutral conjunctive for verbs: tpoium = ...eats, whereas...
  • -ub = narrative past and subjunctive
    • tpoub or tpoiumub = ate, and then...
    • -ium-ub is the source of Modern Clofabosin -(u)mab.
  • fo = realis negation, tu = irrealis
  • -d- progressive