Clofabosin/Middle
Old Clofabosin is the oldest attested form of Clofabosin. The dialect that borrowed loans en masse from Dodellian became Middle Clofabosin.
Clofabian Vowel Shift (CVS): e o a > ə A æ > eo a e > o a e
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 = perfect
- -capt, -cept = future
- -il = attributive
- -ium = conjunctive for verbs
- -ub = subjunctive
- -ium-ub > Modern Clofabosin -(u)mab
- fo = realis negation, tu = irrealis