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


===Prosody===
===Prosody===

Revision as of 17:56, 24 March 2018

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

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

  • -vir = present
  • -zole = past
  • -capt, -cept = future
  • -il = attributive