Verse:Hmøøh/Phormatolide

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Hmøøh/Phormatolide
phormatolidin
File:Script Phormatolidin.png
Created byPraimhín
SettingVerse:Hussmauch, Verse:Mirth
"CW-Complex"
  • Clofabic
    • Hmøøh/Phormatolide
Official status
Official language in
Phormatin
Regulated bynone
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Phormatolidin is a sister language of Clofabosin, spoken in western Cuadhlabh. Its grammar is simplified from Old Clofabosin, but it preserves a few archaic features that are lost in Clofabosin.


Introduction

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ [ŋ]
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ c, k /k/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ g /g/
Fricative voiceless ph, f /f/ th /θ/ s /s/ ch /x/ h /h~ɦ/
voiced z /z/
Trill r /r/
Approximant v /v/ l /l/

Vowels

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

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns inflect for definiteness, number and case. The definite suffix is -ide or -id- when followed by another suffix.

There is a distinction between inalienable and alienable possession: the former uses -yl and the latter uses -ol.

Noun cases:

  • -ine /i:n/ = accusative
  • -one = dative
  • -ase = comitative
  • -ate = locative (from terin, house in both Clofabosin and Phormatolidin)
  • -ium = relativizer

Pronouns

cephin, ceph- = this

fluorin, fluoro- = that

glycin, glyco- = who? what?

Verbs

There are three tenses in Phormatolidin: past, non-past and gnomic. The non-past ending is -phen (related to the Clofabosin agentive -fen), and the past ending is -zole. The gnomic ending is -til, cognate to the gnomic attributive ending -tril in Clofabosin.

In the desiderative, the endings are -profen, -prazole and -protil.

Attributive verbs

The suffix -ol for alienable possession is attached to the inflected form of the verb: chlorophenol trycin (the big world), phthorazolol amphin (the person who ate).

Syntax

Due to Talmic and Netagin influence, Phormatolidin is significantly more head-initial than Clofabosin; its basic word order is SVO and uses postpositions.

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Numbers

esin, rhein, hallin, lopin, orphin, cybin, xolin, thycin, adin, gapharin, phemin, clutin = 1 to 12

100dd: sanin

1000dd: ichthin

Thensaro-Phormatolidin numbers

1 = chemo-

Example texts

Other resources