Clofabosin

Clofabosin
clofaboserotin, clofabosin
Created by	IlL, Praimhín
Setting	Hussmauch
Language family	"Clofabo-Wakanic" Clofabic Clofabosin
Official status
Official language in	Clofabinositin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	qcf

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Clofabosin or Clofabian (Clofabosin: clo·fabo·serotin /klofaboseɾotin/ 'great-river language' or simply clofabosin /klofabosin/) is an agglutinative-fusional head-final language inspired by nonproprietary drug names. It is the official language of Clofabinositin. Dodellian has exerted a strong influence on Clofabian vocabulary and grammar, and Dodellian-derived words and suffixes are commonly used, especially in high-register language.

Todo

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• -pred-, -pred
• -flapon, -filcon, -cogin
• -fulven
• -sporin
• -anserin
• -nefa-
• -pristin, -pristone
• -imex
• -dipine: place names?
• -pamil: place names
• -tiazem: place names (from Dodellian tiyaźäm)
• Consonant stem verbs?
• -tu(m)-
• -(x)antrone
• -terol = patronymic
• Ofadil meratol zocracil = Genesis of a Music
• possible Dodellian suffixes: -butan, -casan, -dutant, -netant, -pitant, -tibant, -entan, -fiban, -fentanil, -etanide, -pafant, -flurane, -ganan, -nertant, -gatran, -isant, -lubant, -osuran, -prazan, -sulfan, -tant, -isant, -triptan, -toran, -vaptan, -zotan, -sonan, -antel, -ibat
• domorelin, remorelin, mimorelin, famorelin, solmorelin, lamorelin, timorelin = days of the week

Orthography

Clofabian script

Clofabosin is written in a left-to-right cursive alphabet (meant to parody the handwriting in doctors' prescriptions). Usually words are not capitalized (not even proper nouns) unless they are at the beginning of a sentence.

The full letter name is used for declining, and the short form (omit the parenthesized part) is used for spelling out words. The alphabetical order is as follows:

• D: do
• R: re
• M: mi
• F: fa
• S: sol
• L: la
• T: ti
• G: go
• P: pe
• N: nar
• V: vi
• B: ba
• C: ce
• Z: zu
• I: i
• E: e
• A: a
• O: o
• U: u

Phonology

Clofabian phonology is remarkably simple, with just 14 consonants and 5 vowels. Clofabian words do not have stressed syllables (other than possibly weak trochaic stress).

Consonants

Clofabosin consonants

		Labial	Coronal	Velar
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/	[ŋ]
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/	c, k /k/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/	g /g/
Fricative	voiceless	f /f/	s /s/
	voiced	v /v/	z /z/
Flap			r /ɾ/
Approximant		[w]	l, ll /l/

The letter x is used for /ks/.

Notes

• Syllable-initial /p, t, k/ are lightly aspirated like in Japanese.
• Word-final /b, d, g/ are devoiced to [p, t, k]: ustekinumab [ustekinumap] 'welcome'.
• [ŋ] is an allophone of /n/ before velars.
• [w] is an allophone of /v/ after velars /k, g/. It is transliterated qu, gu in this case.
• /k, g/ are commonly lenited to [x, ɣ] in intervocallic position.
• /s, z/ are dentalized laminal alveolar [s̪, z̪].
• In the colloquial Prepsocandin accent /ɾC/ sequences assimilate into geminates [Cː]: riconercept [ɾikonekkept] 'goodbye'.

Vowels

Clofabosin vowels

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

Notes

• /e, o/ are mid [e̞, o̞].
• /a/ is central [ä].

Grammar

Nouns

Clofabian nouns can take one of many case clitics, which are not true suffixes. Suffixes for "cases" other than the nominative and the definite accusative are attached to the combining form of the noun. Plurals are marked with -azin, -az(o)- (e.g. ampin person, ampazin 'people'); pluralization is usually reserved for animates, and are never used with numbers or quantifiers.

Consonant stems

efataxin - medicine
Nominative	efataxin
Definite accusative	efataxine
Combining form	efatax(o)-

Vowel stems

nepin - work
Nominative	nepin
Definite accusative	nepine
Combining form	nepi(n)-

torcafen - poet
Nominative	torcafen
Definite accusative	torcafene
Combining form	torcafe(n)-

Some noun clitics

• -ol: genitive
• -abine: in front of, before
• -acetam: behind, after
• -anserin: around
• -azepam: instructive (no plural)
• -ib: locative
• -one: allative
• -ase: comitative
• -adox, -ox: benefactive
• -stat: 'like'
• -ast: 'and'
• -cidin, -cid(o)- [before the case suffix] or dex-: 'only'
• -conast: 'than'
• -dar: emphatic, "X itself"
• -protafib: 'about'
  • Nelast mecoprotafib serovirenz. 'I speak about love and hate.'
• -dutant = above
• -tibant = below
• -pitant = "because of"

Postposed words

• alfa: 'X also'
• beta: 'but'

Pronouns

Personal pronouns

• endin, valin = 1st, 2nd person singular.
  • It is common to shorten the nominative and accusative forms: endin, endine > en, ene and valin, valine > van, vane.
• enazin, vazin = 1st, 2nd person plural
  • ezin is a common short form for enazin.
• dapsin = reflexive pronoun

Correlatives

• cef-, cesin, cerin = this X, this (thing), this (person)
• flu-, flusin, flurin = that X, that (thing), that (person)
• gli-, glisin, glirin = what X?, what? who?
• pred-, presin, prerin = all X, everything, everyone
• nal-, nasin, narin = many
• nor-, nosin, norin = some
• vin-, visin, virin = few
• luta-, lutasin, lutarin = other, another
• cepavir, flupavir, glipavir = do this, do that, do what? (pro-verbs)
• nertib = when?
• cefib, flufib, glifib = here, there, where?
  • predicative forms: cefivir, flufivir, glifivir
• -sin and -rin are used to nominalize genitives and ordinal numbers as well: rivasin = second (thing), rivarin = second (person), amposin = of the person; even the name of the language clofabosin is derived from this construction
• cef-, flu-, and gli- can be used as object affixes on verbs: for example, Fluconazole! means '(I) saw that (person/thing)!'

Verbs

Tense and mood

Clofabosin verbs are completely regular and inflect for tense and mood. Subjects may be omitted, as in Japanese and Korean.

	Indicative	Subjunctive	"If"	"Only if"	"When"	"While"	Conjunctive	Adverbial	Resultative	Optative	"Because" / Quotative
Past	-(a)zole [-(a)zol]	-(a)zumab	-(a)zosartan, -(a)zartan	-(a)zobactam	-(a)zosertib, -(a)zertib, -(a)zokalant†	-sermin	-(a)zolast	-(o)stat	-(o)stim, -mostim	-(a)zomib	-pirdine [-piɾdin]
Present	-(a)vir	-(u)mab, -mumab, -virumab	-sartan	-bactam	-sertib, -kalant†	-fermin	-lukast			-(a)mer	-(a)vudine [-vudin]
Timeless	-tinib	-timab	-tisartan, -tartan			-termin	-trodast				-tidine, -tidine [-tidin]
Future	-cept, -vircept	-ximab, -viximab	-cisartan, -xartan			-xermin	-lukast				-clidine [-klidin]

^† somewhat high register; connotes "in view of the fact that..."

The present tense may be optionally inflected for person as follows (though pronouns in the subject force the verb to be in the third person):

Present subject affixes
	Singular	Plural
1	-virenz [-viɾens]	-viroc
2	-virsen	-virine
3	-vir

Analogously the past tense may be inflected as follows:

Past subject affixes
	Singular	Plural
1	-(a)zolam	-(a)zole
2	-(a)zole	-(a)zoline
3	-(a)zole

The progressive form is marked by -xa-: sporaxavir 'is eating'.

The subjunctive is used like the infinitive and imperative in other languages (e.g. Stilocamab! 'Sing!'). It can also be used to indicate uncertainty, like "may" or "might".

Yes-no questions are formed by adding the question particle pegol to the subjunctive: Zenazumab pegol? (Did he go?). However, colloquial speech often shortens this to -ma'gol or even -ma'l.

The negative uses the -flo- marker after the verb stem: sabaflovir 'he does not write' (usually pronounced [sabafloiɾ] or [sabafloːr]).

• 'can' (ability) uses -tecan (inflected as if it were -tecavir; the attributive is -taxel)
• 'must' uses -mab tiuxetan; the subject is put into the dative.
• 'should' uses -mab cituxetan
• 'may' (permission) uses -mab vedotin
• 'is worth' uses -xaban
• 'right when' uses -fingol or -zofingol
• Emphasis or agreement uses -toxa-/-toxu-: Ene nelcatoxaximab pegol? means 'Will he really love me?'
• There is an archaic imperative -kinra.

The verbal noun uses the suffix -kin/-kiren. For negating verbal nouns, -floxacin is used: Gosifloxacin guancumavir 'Not giving is worse'.

The desiderative uses the following suffixes:

	Indicative	Subjunctive
Past	-prazole	-prazumab
Present	-profen	-promab
Timeless	-protinib	-protimab
Future	-farcept	-proximab

For example, Raxine plocaprofen = 'I want to drink water.'

The desiderative can also be used for dative-stative (the logical subject is in the dative) verbs with 1st person logical subjects:

• Endone clofabosinatecaprofen. = 'I want to be able to speak Clofabosin.'

Predicate nouns can fill in for both cytavir (copula) and keravir (to exist). The predicative is formed by replacing the final -n in the nominative case of a noun with the following suffixes:

	Indicative	Subjunctive
Past	-nazole	-nazumab
Present	-navir	-numab
Timeless	-natinib	-natimab
Future	-nercept, -navircept	-naximab

The copular verb cytavir may also be used, and must be used when using an oblique case NP as a predicate.

For example: Endin voprafenavir and Endin voprafen cytavir both mean "I am a teacher".

The predicative and desiderative suffixes may be fused as follows:

	Indicative	Subjunctive
Past	-noprazole	-noprazumab
Present	-noprofen	-nopromab
Timeless	-noprotinib	-noprotimab
Future	-nofarcept	-noproximab

For example: Endin vopraphenoprofen means "I want to be a teacher".

Attributive verbs

Attributive verbs are used to form relative clauses. They may be formed with the following suffixes:

	Indicative	Desiderative
Past	-zil	-prozil
Present	-dil	-pril
Timeless	-tril	-protil
Future	-cil / -racil	-pracil

-li- + -tril becomes -lutril.

For example, endin drepazil taxin means 'the book that I've read'.

Derivational suffixes

The suffix -tin, -t(o)- is used as a patientive: spodavir 'eat' -> spodatin 'food', inosivir 'dwell, inhabit' -> inositin 'country, land'

The suffix -(o)cavir 'do' may be used to "verb" nouns or borrowed words: spiusocavir 'He plays the sbúith (Talmic fretless lute)'.

Voice

The suffixes -li- (e.g. spodalivir '[X] is eaten') and -ca- (e.g. spodacavir '[X] feeds') are used to form the passive resp. causative forms.

Degree

• clo- = 'very'
• guan- = comparative (optional when there is a comparandum, which is marked with -conast, lit. "after seeing")
• peg- = superlative

For example, Zetisin tricib pegnibulidil serotinavir. means 'Xaetjeon is the world's most studied language.'

Auxiliary verbs

• -cona- 'to try X-ing' (< 'to see')
• -gosi- 'to X for someone' (< 'to give')
• -nida- 'to X in advance' (< 'to place')

Other affixes

• -cillin: 'let alone'
• -fil: cohortative
  • Zanamifil! 'Let's play!'
  • En alfa sporafil! 'Let me eat it too!'
• ri-: 'again, re-'
• -trexed: 'the more...'

Numerals

Clofabosin uses a base-12 numeral system. For attributive numerals the -in is replaced with -il. The -asin/-arin suffix is used to build ordinals, except 'first' is irregular: lutasin (inanimate), lutarin (animate).

• 0: viuzan
• 1: esin (inanimate), erin (animate)
• 2: rivin
• 3: salin
• 4: lopin
• 5: orfin
• 6: cibin
• 7: zolin
• 8: tixin
• 9: vadin
• X: gabarin
• E: femin
• 10: clutin
• 11: clutesin
• 12: clurivin
• 13: clusalin
• 14: clulopin
• 15: clutorfin
• 16: clucibin
• 17: cluzolin
• 18: clutixin
• 19: cluvadin
• 1X: clugafarin
• 1E: clufemin
• 20: riclutin
• 21: riclutesin
• 22: riclurivin
• 30: saclutin
• 40: loclutin
• 50: orclutin
• 60: ciclutin
• 70: zoclutin
• 80: ticlutin
• 90: vaclutin
• X0: gabaclutin
• E0: feclutin
• 100: sanin
• 1000: ictin

Syntax

Existence clauses

For expressing existence the verb kera- "to exist" is used.

Etamib suxitin keravir.

There is a picture on the wall.

Cause clauses

Cause clauses are formed with the quotative.

Complement clauses

Complement clauses ("that + [statement]" in English) are formed using the quotative. The bare quotative is enough when using it with a "quoting" verb such as lavir 'say' or ratrivir 'believe'. However, to use the complement clause as a noun you need lakin, the verbal noun of lavir: Felavudine lakin vocivir. 'I don't like the fact that it's cold'.

Purpose clauses

Purpose clauses can be formed with -DESID + -QUOT (-provudine in the present tense and -propirdine in the past tense). Colloquially -RES (-stim/-mostim) can be used.

Drepatine clofabosinaprovudine fuletazole.

drepa-t-ine clofab-osi-na-pro-vudine fuleta-zole

read-PAT-ACC Clofabian-ATT.INAN-PRED-DES-PRES.QUOT buy-PAST.IND

He bought the book in order to be able to speak Clofab. (lit. ... saying "I want to be able to speak Clofab")

In the first person -DESID + -CONJ can be used (-prolukast in the present tense and -prazolast in the past tense).

Tense agreement

Tense agreement states that dependent clauses must have the same tense as the main clause.

Derivational morphology

• bol-, -bol-: diminutive
• clo-: augmentative
• -icin, -ici-: diminutive
• -mycin, mycin-: -ability
• -statin, stat-: abstract noun
  • rovastatin 'knowledge' < rovavir 'be known'
• -tin, -t-: patient noun
• -axin: instrument
• -stin: instrument
• -phen: agentive
• -siban: agentive (Dodellian)
• -dan: nominalizer (Dodellian)

Compounds

Compound nouns can be of the form noun+noun or verb+noun.

Sample texts

The North Wind and the Sun

Peloclevinast actin

Peloclevinast actin aferin dapsodar guanorlitidine cecroxazosertib bidafizil pevustazepam fidozil ilpefen lacufizole. Fluzin ilpefenol pevustine sulcib nilpacazil flurin guanorlitidine lepsolizumab sumacazole. Peloclevin predcoxine grebimostim tirazole beta tirazartan tirtrexed ilpefen zopinanserin pevustine guanfamizole. Flusertib actin bidafizil varine motazofingol ilpefen pevustine nilpazole. Flukalant peloclevin actidar guanorlitidine stiunizumab quinulizole.

Gloss

Peloclevinast actin
/peloklevinast aktin/
pelo-clevin-ast acti-n
north-wind-and sun-NOM
The North Wind and the Sun

Peloclevinast actin aferin dapsodar guanorlitidine cecroxazosertib bidafizil pevustazepam fidozil ilpefen lacufizole.
/peloklevinast aktin afeɾin dapsodaɾ gwanoɾlitidine kekɾoksazoseɾtip bidafizil pevustazepam fidozil ilpefen lakufizol/
pelo-clevin-ast acti-n afer-in dapso-dar guan-orli-tidine cecro-xa-zosertib, bidafi-zil pevu-st-azepam fido-zil ilpe-fe-n lacufi-zole
north-wind-and sun-NOM each_other-NOM self-EMPH COMP-strong-GNOM.QUOT have_an_argument-PROG-PST.when warm-PAST.ATTR cover-INSTRUMENT-INST wear-PST.ATTR travel-AGT-NOM run_into-PST.IND
The north wind and the sun were arguing, each claiming to be the stronger one, when a traveler wearing a warm cloak happened upon the scene.

Fluzin ilpefenol pevustine sulcib nilpacazil flurin guanorlitidine lepsolizumab sumacazole.
[fluzin ilpefenol pevustine sulkip nilpakazil fluɾin gwanoɾlitidine lepsolizumap sumakazol]
fluz-in ilpefen-ol pevust-ine sulcib nilpa-ca-zil flur-in guan-orli-tidine lepso-li-zumab sumaca-zole.
that.PL-NOM traveler-GEN cloak-ACC first take_off-CAUS-PST.ATTR that-NOM COMP-strong-GNOM.QUOT consider-PASS-PST.SBJV unite-PST.IND
They agreed that the one who first made the traveler take off his cloak should be considered stronger.

Peloclevin predcoxine grebimostim tirazole beta tirazartan tirtrexed ilpefen zopinanserin pevustine guanfamizole.
[peloklevin pɾedkoksine gɾebimostim tirazol beta tiɾazaɾtan tiɾtɾekset ilpefen zopinanseɾin pevustine gwanfamizol]
Pelo-clevi-n pred-cox-ine grebi-mostim tir-azole beta tir-azartan tir-trexed ilpefe-n zopin-anserin pevust-ine guan-fami-zole.
north-wind-NOM all-strength-ACC put_in-RES blow-PST.IND but blow-PST.COND blow-the_more traveler-NOM body-around cloak-ACC more-wrap-PST.IND
The north wind blew with all his strength, but the more he blew the more did the traveler wrapped his cloak around his body.

Flusertib actin bidafizil varine motazofingol ilpefen pevustine nilpazole.
[fluseɾtip aktin bidafizill vaɾine motazofingol ilpefen pevustine nilpazol]
flu-sertib acti-n bidafi-zil vari-ne mota-zofingol ilpefe-n pevust-ine nilpa-zole
that-when sun-NOM warm-PST.ATTR light-ACC radiate-PST.moment traveler-NOM cloak-ACC take_off-PST.IND
Then, right when the sun shone out warm light, the traveler took off his cloak.

Flukalant peloclevin actidar guanorlitidine stiunizumab quinulizole.
[flukalant peloklevin aktidaɾ gwanoɾlitidine stiunizumap kwinulizol]
flu-kalant pelo-clevi-n acti-dar guan-orli-tidine stiuni-zumab quinu-li-zole
that-in_view_of north-wind-NOM sun-EMPH COMP-strong-GNOM.QUOT confess-PST.SBJV constrain-PASS-PST.IND
Thus the north wind was forced to acknowledge that it was the sun who is stronger.

UDHR, Article 1

Predampazin zocralutril sertimod coplitrodast tulcast virpitaprotafib inflitinib.
[pɾedampazin zokɾalutɾil seɾtimot koplitɾodast tulkast viɾpitapɾotafip inflitinip]
pred-amp-az-in zocra-li-tril sert-imod copli-trodast tulc-ast virpita-protafib infli-tinib
all-human-PL-NOM give_birth-PASS-GNOM.ATT time-ABL free-GNOM.CONJ worth-and entitlement-about equal-GNOM.IND
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Ampazin ziudiximod cetirizast dapsolopritine ciclotrodast, aferone ruxinelol temazepam evicotimab tiuxetan.
[ampazin ziudiksimot ketiɾizast dapsolopɾitine kiklotɾodast ǀ afeɾon ɾuksinelol temazepam evikotimap tiuksetan]
amp-az-in ziudix-imod cetiriz-ast dapso-lopri-t-ine ciclo-trodast, afer-one ruxi-nel-ol tem-azepam evico-tumab tiuxetan
human-PL-NOM nature-ABL rationality-and self-control-NOMZ-ACC receive-GNOM.CONJ, each_other-DAT brother-love-GEN spirit-PL.INST act-GNOM.SUBJ must
They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

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cef-serot-in e-sert-ib acet-gresu-li-zole
this-language-NOM one-time-LOC front-display-PASS-PST.IND
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