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Old Clofabosin had geminates, unlike modern Clofabosin.
Old Clofabosin had geminates, unlike modern Clofabosin: for example: ''nibbuvir'' meant 'to learn'.


===Vowels===
===Vowels===

Revision as of 17:49, 26 October 2017

Old Clofabosin is the oldest 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/
s₂ /sʰ/
ch /x/
voiced z /z/
Trill r /r/
Approximant l /l/ v /w/

Old Clofabosin had geminates, unlike modern Clofabosin: for example: nibbuvir meant 'to learn'.

Vowels

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

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