Verse:Hmøøh/Phormatolide

Hmøøh/Phormatolide
phormatolidin
File:Script Phormatolidin.png
Created by	User:Praimhín, User:IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	"CW-Complex" Clofabic Hmøøh/Phormatolide
Official status
Official language in	Phormatin
Regulated by	none

Phormatolidin is a sister language of Clofabosin, spoken in Talma. It preserves a few archaic features that are lost in Clofabosin.

rachin = water (< *rask; ~ Clofab raxin, Schwünter Rasch)

nethagolidin = Netagin (language)

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/			l /ɴ̆/
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/
Approximant		v /v/		r /r/, rh /r̥/

Notes

• /ɴ̆/ word-finally or before a consonant is realized as [ɴ] or more commonly as nasalization of the preceding vowel.

Vowels

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

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 [-ÿɰ̃] and the latter uses -ol [-ɔ̃].

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:

trycinium chlorophenol

tryc-in-ium chloro-phen-ol

world-NOM-REL big-PRES-ATTR

[ˈtrÿkinjum ˈχɴ̆ɔrɔfɛnɔ̃]

the big world

amphinium phthozolol

amph-in-ium phtho-zole-ol

person-NOM-REL eat-PAST-ATTR

[ˈaɱfinjum ˈfθɔzɔɴ̆ɔ̃]

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.

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-