Fylfathic

Fylfathic
Lojic
تٖنگَفٖلفَنص، تٖنگَلٓجَا
Pronunciation	[tyŋ.ga.fyl.fant͡s, tyŋ.ga.lo.d͡ʒaʔ]
Created by	Melinoë
Date	June 13th, 2026
Native to	Lebanon
Ethnicity	Fylfans
Language family	Indo-European Para-Germanic Chlesamnic Fylfathic
Early forms	Proto-Chlesamnic Old Fylfathic Fylfathic
Writing system	Arabic
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Lebanon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	fulf

Fylfathic (/ˈfʊl.feɪ̯.ðɪk/, /ˈfʌl.feɪ̯.ðɪk/, or (rare) /ˈfɪl.feɪ̯.ðɪk/, also "Lojic" /loʊ̯.d͡ʒɪk/; Autonym: تُنگَفٖلفَنص (tüngafülfanṣ) /tyŋ.ga.fyl.fant͡s/ or تٖنگَلٓجَ (tüngaloja) /tyŋ.ga.lo.d͡ʒaʔ/) is a Chlesamnic language spoken on the northeast side of Mount Lebanon (Native: گَبَلّٓجَ (gaballoja)).

Etymology

تُنگَفٖلفَنص (tüngafülfanṣ) descends from Old Fylfathic تيُنگافيُلفانص (tüngafülfanṣ), itself a reformation of the ancient "فيُلفانآثاتيُنگا" (fülfanoṯatünga), all ultimately compounds of modern فٖلفَنص (fülfanṣ, “Fylfans”) + تٖنگَ (tünga, “tongue”).

The ـلٓجَ (-loja) of تٖنگَلٓجَ (tüngaloja) is from لٓجَ (loja), the word for a blinding white, though it is taken as a shortening of the name of Mount Lebanon.

Morphology

Fylfathic is among the most divergent of all the Chlesamnic languages.

Nouns

You will 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))

The definite article in Fylfathic is borrowed from Arabic "al-", but it is written differently, with an obligatory kashida (eg. "اَلـ"), the origonal purpose was not recorded, but it was likely to make the division clearer.

A-stem

A-stems distinguish four forms, these are:

• masculine
  • Nom/gen/con singular
  • Accusative (no number)
  • Dative (no number)
  • Nom/gen/con plural
• feminine
  • Nominative (no number) + Gen/con singular
  • Accusative (no number)
  • Dative (no number)
  • Gen/con plural
• Neuter
  • Direct singular
  • Gen/con singular
  • Dative (no number) + direct plural
  • Gen/con plural

a-stem

	فٖلفَ (fülfa) (masc)		گَبَلّٓجَ (gaballoja) (fem)		[Term?] (neut)
	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	فٖلفَ fülfa	فٖلفٓو fülfō	گَبَلّٓجَ gaballoja	گَبَلّٓجَ gaballoja
accusative	فٖلفَا fülfā	فٖلفَا fülfā	گَبَلّٓجَا gaballojā	گَبَلّٓجَا gaballojā
genitive	فٖلفَ fülfa	فٖلفٓو fülfō	گَبَلّٓجَ gaballoja	گَبَلّٓجٓو gaballojō
dative	فٖلفٔ fülfe	فٖلفٔ fülfe	گَبَلّٓجٔي gaballojē	گَبَلّٓجٔي gaballojē
construct	فٖلفَـ fülfa-	فٖلفٓوـ fülfō-	گَبَلّٓجَـ gaballoja-	گَبَلّٓجٓوـ gaballojō-