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Proto-Clofabic or Tamil (Proto-Clofabic: LΛŦꝨΠ ΠΔⱵ tamil lor 'same/shared/common language'; Clofabosin: methoserotin 'the people's language') is the (attested!) proto-language of the Clofabic family, which includes Clofabosin and Phormatolidin. It was spoken 2000 years before modern Clofabosin. It is a significant source of loanwords for Eevo and other Talman languages.

1: es (inanimate) / er (animate) 2: s2rib 3: s2al 4: lop 5: orβ 6: kʷib 7: tksol 8: δikʷ 9: abd 10: gaβar 11: βem 12: r2klut

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Medial	Velar	Labiovelar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	kʷ
	voiced	b	d		g
Fricative	voiceless		s	š			h
	voiced	β	δ	ř	γ	w
Liquid			r, l

Vowels

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

Phonotactics

Proto-Clofabic allows very unusual clusters, such as řkl- (ex. řkloro 'big'). However, the more "unusual" clusters are allowed only word-initially. Elsewhere, the clusters are more typical of the Talma region. (i.e. nothing I don't want in Eevo)

Orthography

• a: Λ
• b: Ỻ
• k: Ǝ
• d: X
• e: Ʞ
• β: Ꙟ
• s2: Ɥ
• g: Σ
• i: Ꝩ
• δ: Ꝟ
• l: Π
• m: Ŧ
• n: И
• o: Δ
• p: Ш
• γ: Ӈ
• r: Ⱶ
• s: ᖵ
• r2: Џ
• t: L
• u: Ξ
• w: Ⳙ
• y: Ʇ
• (x /ks/: Ɐ)

Alphabetical order: X Ⱶ Ŧ Ꙟ ᖵ Π L Σ Ӈ Ш И Ⳙ Ꝟ Ỻ Ǝ Џ Ɥ Ꝩ ꞱꞰ Λ Δ Ξ (d r1 m β s1 l t g γ p n w δ b k r2 s2 i y e a o u)

Morphology

Tamil is analytic.

Particles

• copula: wir
• participle: βen
• past: r2ole
• future: kapt
• quotative: di
• topic: in
• accusative: e
• attributive: il
• genitive: o
• negative: ptum
• comparative: dguwan
• superlative: pδeg
• plural: -ar2
• cohortative: ko
• later verbal noun: at
• desiderative: pro

Pronouns

end, sent, βlur, akwt, ine, βlur

Syntax

Proto-Clofabic is V2, with genitive-noun, and adjective-noun order. Tense and discourse particles are sentence-final.

Prepositions can be used in second position in a phrase (cf. "magnā cum laude")