Fylfathic
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| Fylfathic | |
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| فٖلفَنَوَث | |
| Pronunciation | [fyl.fa.na.waθ] |
| Created by | Melinoë |
| Date | June 13th, 2026 |
| Native to | Cyprus |
| Ethnicity | Fylfans |
Indo-European
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Early forms | Proto-Chlesamnic
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| Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | Cyprus |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | fulf |
Fylfathic (/ˈfʊl.feɪ̯.ðɪk/, /ˈfʌl.feɪ̯.ðɪk/, or /ˈfɪl.feɪ̯.ðɪk/; Autonym: فٖلفَنَوَث (fülfanawaṯ) /fyl.fa.na.waθ/) is a Chlesamnic language spoken around and on Mount Lebanon ([Term?]).
Etymology
The modern name is the result of the rebracketing and misinterpretation of the older فٖلفَنَوثَتٖنَگ (fülfanawṯatünag), itself from Classical Fylfathic فيُلفانآثاتيُنگا (fülfanōṯatünga), a compound of فيُلفانآثاس (fülfanōṯas), the genitive of فيُلفانص (fülfanṣ; "Fylfan people"), and تيُنگا (tünga; "tongue, language"). The modern form فٖلفَنَوَث (fülfanawaṯ) can itself be analyzed as فٖلفَـ (fulfa-; "wolf") and ـنَوَث (-nawaṯ; "-ish, ic, -ian, -ese") through the further rebracketing of the term causing "-nawaṯ" to be taken as a suffix for forming language names.
Morphology
Fylfathic is among the most divergent of all the Chlesamnic languages, and this shows in its strongly nonconcatenative morphology that works off roots as in the Semitic languages.
Nouns
Nouns have severely collapsed, losing all cases and barely holding onto gender.
| فٖلَف (fülaf) | [Term?] () | [Term?] () | ||||
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| singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | |
| indefinite | فٖلَف fülaf |
فٖلَوف fülawf |
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| definite | اَلـفٖلَف al-fülaf |
اَلـفٖلَوف al-fülawf |
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| construct | فٖلفَـ fülfa- |
فٖلفَوـ fülfaw- |
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As can be seen, Fylfathic borrows "al-" from Arabic but writes it differently, with an obligatory kashida (eg. "اَلـ"), the origonal purpose was not recorded, but it is likely to make the division clearer. You will also notice a construct form, this descends from the "short genitive" (the form used in compounding), and this shift had been happening since at least the early 12th century and can be seen in the clear shift in how compounds are formed, for example, we will take "mountain", which is literally "that which carves the sky" in Fylfathic. Before the shift, such a compound would be formed as "sky's carver", with "sky" in the short genitive, thus the ancient "ammaskafanṣ", but after the shift we see the form سکافانآثاامّاس (skafanōṯaammas; modern: خَفَنَوثَمَم (hafanawṯamam))