Clofabosin
| Clofabosin | |
|---|---|
| clofaboserotin, clofabosin | |
| Created by | IlL, Praimhín |
| Setting | Hussmauch |
Clofabo-Dodellic (?)
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| Official status | |
Official language in | Clofabinositin |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qcf |
Lexicon (needs updating)
Swadesh list
Clofabosin or Clofabian (Clofabosin: clo-fabo-serotin /klofaboseɾotin/ 'great-river language' or simply clofabosin /klofabosin/) is a language inspired by generic drug names. It is an agglutinative language and the official language of Clofabinositin.
Todo
- guan-
- -nil
Phonology
Clofabian phonology is remarkably simple, with just 14 consonants and 5 vowels.
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, ph /f/ | s /s/ | |
| voiced | v /v/ | z /z/ | ||
| Flap | r /ɾ/ | |||
| Approximant | [w] | l, ll /l/ | ||
The letter x is used for /ks/.
- Notes
- Voiceless plosives are lightly aspirated like in Japanese.
- Word-final obstruents 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 written qu, gu in this case.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i, y /i/ | u /u/ | |
| Mid | e /e/ | o /o/ | |
| Open | a /a/ |
Grammar
Nouns
Clofabian nouns have around 11 cases.
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 | ||
| Genitive | efatasto- | efatastazo- | ||
| Preessive | efatastol | efatastazol | ||
| Postessive | efatastast | efatastazast | ||
| Instructive | - | efatastazepam | ||
| Locative | efatastib | efatastazib | ||
| Allative | efatastone | efatastazone | ||
| Comitative | efatastase | efatastazase | ||
| Benefactive | efatastadox | efatastazadox | ||
| Adverbial | efatastostat | - | ||
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 | ||
| Genitive | torapheno- | toraphenazo- | ||
| Preessive | toraphenol | toraphenazol | ||
| Postessive | toraphenast | toraphenazast | ||
| Instructive | - | toraphenazepam | ||
| Locative | toraphenib | toraphenazib | ||
| Allative | toraphenone | toraphenazone | ||
| Comitative | toraphenase | toraphenazase | ||
| Benefactive | toraphenadox | toraphenazadox | ||
| Adverbial | toraphestat | - | ||
Pronouns
Personal pronouns
- endin, valin = 1st, 2nd person singular.
- Casually 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
- dapsin = reflexive pronoun
Correlatives
- cesin, cerin = this (thing), this (person)
- flusin, flurin = that (thing), that (person)
- glisin, glirin = what? who?
- ranasin, ranarin = something, someone
- cef-, flu-, gli- = this X, that X, what X?
- cepa, flupa-, glipa- = 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
- nab- = focus, intensifier
Verbs
Tense and mood
Clofabidin 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 | Quotative | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Past | -zole | -zumab | -zosartan/-zartan | -zobactam | -zosertib /-zertib | -sermin | -zolast | -stat | -stim | -zomib | -pirdine |
| Present | -vir | -mab | -sartan | -bactam | -sertib | -fermin | -lukast | -mer | -vudine | ||
| Timeless | -tinib | -tumab / -tumomab | -tisartan / -tartan | -termin | -trodast | -tidine | |||||
| Future | -cept / -vircept | -ximab / -viximab | -cisartan / -xartan | -xermin | -lukast | -clidine |
The progressive form is marked by -xa-: sporaxavir 'is eating'.
The subjunctive is used as the imperative. 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?)
The negative uses the -flo- marker after the verb stem: sabaflovir (he does not write).
The potential ('can') uses -tecan (inflected as if it were -tecavir; the attributive is -taxel), and the debitive ('must') uses the subjunctive plus tiuxetan; the subject is put into the dative.
The infinitive uses the suffix -kin. For negating infinitives, -floxacin is used: moxifloxacin 'to not give, not giving'.
The desiderative uses the following suffixes:
| Indicative | Subjunctive | |
|---|---|---|
| Past | -prazole | -prazumab |
| Present | -profen | -promab |
| Timeless | -protinib | -protumab |
| 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 spactinavir. = 'I am thirsty.' (lit. To me is thirst)
- Endone Clofabosinatecaprofen. = 'I want to be able to speak Clofabosin.'
Predicate nouns can be expressed with predicative suffixes in addition to the verb cyta-. 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 | -natumab |
| Future | -nercept | -naximab |
For example: Endin vopraphen cytavir and Endin vopraphenavir 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 | -noprotumab |
| Future | -nofarcept | -noproximab |
For example: Endin vopraphenoprofen and Endin vopraphen cytaprofen both mean "I want to be a teacher".
Attributive verbs
Attributive verbs may be formed with the following suffixes:
| Indicative | Desiderative | |
|---|---|---|
| Past | -zil | -prozil |
| Present | -dil | -pril |
| Timeless | -tril | -protil |
| Future | -cil / -racil | -pracil |
The suffix -tin is used as a patientive: spora- 'eat' -> sporatin 'food', inosi- 'dwell, inhabit' -> inositin 'country, land'
The suffix -(o)ca- 'do' may be used to "verb" nouns or borrowed words: spiusocavir 'He plays the sbýth (a Tigal musical instrument)'.
Voice
The suffix -li- (e.g. sporalivir '[X] is eaten') and -ci- (e.g. sporacivir '[X] feeds') are used to form the passive resp. causative forms.
Degree
- clo- = 'very'
- guan- = comparative
- peg- = superlative
For example, Tigosin tricib pegbevolidil serotinavir. means 'Tigal is the world's most studied language.'
Other affixes
- -protafib: 'let alone X-ing'
Numerals
Clofabosin uses a base-12 numeral system. Numerals are nouns and precede the modified noun. The -asin/-abin suffix is used to build ordinals, except 'first' is irregular: lutasin (inanimate), lutabin (animate).
- 1: esin (inanimate), elin (animate)
- 2: rivin
- 3: salin
- 4: tizin
- 5: orfin
- 6: cibin
- 7: zolin
- 8: tixin
- 9: vadin
- X: gabarin
- E: femin
- 10: fudin
- 11: futesin
- 12: furivin
- 13: fusalin
- 14: futizin
- 15: futorfin
- 16: fucibin
- 17: fuzolin
- 18: futixin
- 19: fuvadin
- 1X: fugafarin
- 1E: fufemin
- 20: rimin
- 21: rimesin
- 22: ririvin
- 30: salemin
- 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.
Purpose clauses
Purpose clauses can be formed with -DESID + -QUOT (-provudine in the present tense and -propirdine in the past tense).
- 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).
Derivational morphology
- clo-: augmentative
- -icin: diminutive
- -mycin: -ability
- -statin: abstract noun
- rovastatin 'knowledge' < rovavir 'be known'
- -tin: patient noun
- -axin: instrument
- -stin: instrument
Phrases
- Furine! - Hello!/Goodbye! (lit. "[I wish you] health")
- Valone alfa furine! (to one person)/Vazone alfa furine! (to many people)/Provolone alfa furine (polite) - Hello!/Goodbye! (reply to Furine!)
- Calcatin! - Thank you! (from calca- 'thank')
- Endallin $NAME-navir. - My name is $NAME.
- Ustekinumab! - Welcome! (lit. "That it be a pleasure")
- Lulumab pegol? - How are you? (lit. "Are you restful?")
- Certolizumab pegol? - Good morning! (lit. "Did you sleep?")
- Clofroxastat. - Very well.
- Far. or [repeat verb] - Yes.
- Flor. or [repeat verb in the negative] - No.
- [Endone] clofabosinaflovir. - I can't speak Clofabosin.
- Clofabosine bevolixavir. - I am learning Clofabosin.
- Clofabosine gezufliprofen. - I want to practice my Clofabosin.
- Endin... - I am...
- clofaborinavir. - ...Clofabian.
- ...tigorinavir. - ...Tigal.
- ...nurorinavir. - ...Nurian.
- ...cagasarinavir. - ...Kagasan.
- ...ramanuzarinavir. - ...Raamaanujan.
- ...vibarinavir. (?) - ...Wiebian.
- En cefgarib dirpamab tiuxetan. - I must rest today.