Clofabosin
| Clofabosin | |
|---|---|
| clofaboserotin, clofabosin | |
| Created by | IlL, Praimhín |
| Setting | Hussmauch |
"Clofabo-Wakanic"
| |
| 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 an agglutinative, head-final language inspired by generic drug names. It is the official language of Clofabinositin.
Todo
- -toxaximab = ?
- -anserin
- -cillin
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 plosives b d g p t k are unreleased: ustekinumab [ustekinumab̚] '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. Plurals are usually reserved for animates, and are never used with numbers or quantifiers.
1st declension
The nominative resp. the accusative have -in resp. -ine; other cases drop these suffixes.
| efataxin - drug | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number→ Case↓ |
Singular | Plural | ||
| Nominative | efataxin | efataxazin | ||
| Accusative | efataxine | efataxazine | ||
| Genitive | efataxol, efataxo- | efataxazol, efataxazo- | ||
| Preessive | efataxabine | efataxazabine | ||
| Postessive | efataxacetam | efataxazacetam | ||
| Instructive | - | efataxazepam | ||
| Locative | efataxib | efataxazib | ||
| Allative | efataxone | efataxazone | ||
| Comitative | efataxase | efataxazase | ||
| Benefactive | efataxadox | efataxazadox | ||
| Adverbial | efataxostat | - | ||
2nd declension
Nom. resp. acc. ends in -n resp. -ne; other cases add their suffixes onto the -n-.
| torcaphen - poet | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number→ Case↓ |
Singular | Plural | ||
| Nominative | torcaphen | torcaphenazin | ||
| Accusative | torcaphene | torcaphenazine | ||
| Genitive | torcaphenol, torcapheno- | torcaphenazol, torcaphenazo- | ||
| Preessive | torcaphenabine | torcaphenazabine | ||
| Postessive | torcaphenacetam | torcaphenazacetam | ||
| Instructive | - | torcaphenazepam | ||
| Locative | torcaphenib | torcaphenazib | ||
| Allative | torcaphenone | torcaphenazone | ||
| Comitative | torcaphenase | torcaphenazase | ||
| Benefactive | torcaphenadox | torcaphenazadox | ||
| Adverbial | torcaphestat | - | ||
Other clitics
- -ast: 'and'
- dex-: 'only'
- -protafib: 'about'
- Ezin nelast mecoprotafib seroxavir. 'We are speaking about love and hate.'
- X alfa: 'X also'
- beta: 'but'
- nab- = focus, intensifier
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?
- pre-, 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
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 | -zole | -zumab | -zosartan, -zartan | -zobactam | -zosertib, -zertib | -sermin | -zolast | -stat | -stim, -mostim | -zomib | -pirdine |
| Present | -vir | -mab, -mumab | -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 like the infinitive and imperative in other languages. 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).
- 'can' 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
- 'right when' uses -fingol or -zofingol
The verbal noun uses the suffix -kin. 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 | -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 clofabosinatecaprofen. = 'I want to be able to speak Clofabosin.'
Predicate nouns can be expressed with predicative suffixes. 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 vopraphenavir means "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 means "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 sbúith (Tigal 'viola da gamba')'.
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, Tigavosin tricib pegbevolidil serotinavir. means 'Tigal is the world's most studied language.'
Other affixes
- -cillin: 'let alone'
- -fil: cohortative
- Zanamifil! 'Let's play!'
- En alfa sporafil! 'Let me eat it too!'
- ri-: 'again, re-'
Numerals
Clofabosin uses a base-12 numeral system. Numerals are nouns and precede the modified noun. The -asin/-arin suffix is used to build ordinals, except 'first' is irregular: lutasin (inanimate), lutarin (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). 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).
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.
- ...tigavorinavir. - ...Tigal.
- ...nurorinavir. - ...Nurian.
- ...cagasarinavir. - ...Kagasan.
- ...ramanuzarinavir. - ...Raamaanujan.
- ...vibarinavir. (?) - ...Wiebian.
- En cefgarib dirpamab tiuxetan. - I must rest today.
- Vane nelcavir. - I love you.
Sample texts
- Prevampazin zoclalidil serimod coplitrodast virsapitast tulcerst inflivir.
- All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
- Ampazin ziudiximod cetirizast loprozebatine ciclotrodast, aferone ruxinelol temazepam evicomab tiuxetan.
- They are endowd with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.