Clofabosin
| Clofabosin | |
|---|---|
| clofabide lorin | |
| Created by | IlL, Praimhín |
| Setting | Hussmauch |
Clofabic
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| Official status | |
Official language in | Clofabinosin |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qcf |
Clofabosin or Clofabian (clofabide lorin 'great river language' or simply Clofabosin) is a language inspired by generic drug names. It is an agglutinative language and the official language of Clofabinosin.
Sandbox
Thocletaflimab pegfitozole esine frebocilline $ S = \{a_0, a_1, ...\} $ daprocitole $ a_0 = 1, a_1 = 1 $ keraminide $ a_n a_{n-2} = 1 + a_{n-1}^2 $. Acalaviterax mepricythine cifuroxin $ a_n = F_{2n + 1} $ ...
Flibarosin riptine cifamoxicillin gevuflitazumab! Brecavitol motraphenone hepartogerexinonide rinopsicine flochomarezumab.
Llibrosi riptne cīmoxcilli geflitazma! Brecvitl motrāenon epartogrexnonde rinōscne llochmarzuma
Phonology
Clofabian phonology is remarkably simple (like actual drug names), with just 14 consonants and 5 vowels.
Consonants
| Labial | Coronal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | n [ŋ] | |
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | c, k /k/ |
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /g/ | |
| Fricative | voiceless | f, ph /f/ | s /s/ | |
| voiced | v /v/ | z /z/ | ||
| Flap | r /ɾ/ | |||
| Lat. app. | l, ll /l/ | |||
[ŋ] is an allophone of /n/ before velars.
The letter x is used for /ks/.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i, y /i/ | u /u/ | |
| Mid | e /e/ | o /o/ | |
| Open | a /a/ |
Grammar
Nouns
1st declension
The nominative resp. the accusative have -in resp. -ine; other cases drop these suffixes.
| efatastin - drug | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number→ Case↓ |
Singular | Plural | ||
| Nominative | efatastin | efatastazin | ||
| Accusative | efatastine | efatastazine | ||
| Vocative | efatastan | efatastazan | ||
| Genitive | efatastyl | efatastazyl | ||
| Preessive | efatastol | efatastazol | ||
| Postessive | efatastast | efatastazast | ||
| Instrumental-Comitative | efatastil | efatastazil | ||
| Locative | efatastib | efatastazib | ||
| Allative | efatastone | efatastazone | ||
| Benefactive | efatastase | efatastazase | ||
| Adverbial | efatastostat | - | ||
Other suffixes:
-ide (and/also, after the case suffix like Latin -que)
-phan: xor
2nd declension
Nom. resp. acc. ends in -n resp. -ne; other cases add their suffixes onto the -n-.
| toraphen - poet | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number→ Case↓ |
Singular | Plural | ||
| Nominative | toraphen | toraphenazin | ||
| Accusative | toraphene | toraphenazine | ||
| Vocative | toraphenan | toraphenazan | ||
| Genitive | toraphenyl | toraphenazyl | ||
| Preessive | toraphenol | toraphenazol | ||
| Postessive | toraphenast | toraphenazast | ||
| Instrumental-Comitative | toraphenil | toraphenazil | ||
| Locative | toraphenib | toraphenazib | ||
| Allative | toraphenone | toraphenazone | ||
| Terminative | toraphenase | toraphenazase | ||
| Adverbial | toraphestat | - | ||
Pronouns
- enodin, valin, fubin - 1st, 2nd, 3rd person (animate) singular
- enozin, vazin, fuzin - 1st, 2nd, 3rd person (animate) plural
- cethyl = this, fusyl = that
Verbs
- cytam - do
- keram - exist
- keratin - thing (something that exists)
Honorific
- pro-: for nouns
- ci-: for verbs
- cipro-: high honorific
- Provopraphen hydrine cilyram.
- The teacher drinks water.
Voice
- -v-: passive
- -x-: causative
Discourse
- flo-: negative
- -mab pegol: subjunctive
- -mab: past
- -vir: present
- -fil = hortative
- -pril = attributive
- -zomib = suggestion
- -sertib = when (< sertin 'time')
- -sartan = if
Other affixes
- -tib/-tinib = conjunctive
- -van = but..., -ativan = is, but...
- -stat = adverbial, purposive affix
- dex-, levo-: ???
Numerals
Clofabosin uses a base-12 numeral system. Numerals are nouns and precede the modified noun.
- 1: esin
- 2: rivin
- 3: salin
- 4: tizin
- 5: orfin
- 6: cibin
- 7: xolin
- 8: ticin
- 9: vadin
- X: gabarin
- E: futin
- 10: femin
- 11: femesin
- 12: ferivin
- 13: fesalin
- 14: fetizin
- 15: femorphin
- 16: fecibin
- 17: fexolin
- 18: feticin
- 19: fevadin
- 1X: fegafarin
- 12: fefuthin
- 20: rimin
- 21: rimesin
- 22: ririvin
- 30: salemin
- 100: sanin
- 1000: ictin
Derivational morphology
- -atin, -atinyl: nominalizer
- -cillin: collective/place noun
- clo-: augmentative
- -mycin: NOUN-ness
Phrases
- Furine! - Hello!/Goodbye!
- Valonide furine! (to one person)/Valonalide furine! (to many people)/Provolonide furine (polite) - Hello!/Goodbye! (reply to Furine!)
- Calcam! (familiar)/Calcamab! (polite)/Calcazumab! (very polite) - Thank you!
- Enodyl allin $NAME cytamab. - My name is $NAME.