Verse:Hmøøh/Phormatolide

Phormatolidin is a sister language of Clofabosin, spoken in southern Cuadhlabh. Its grammar is simplified from Old Clofabosin, but it preserves a few archaic features that are lost in Clofabosin.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/			[ŋ]
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/			c, k /k/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/			g /g/
Fricative	voiceless	ph, f /f/	th /θ/	s /s/		ch /x/	h /h~ɦ/
	voiced			z /z/
Trill				r /r/
Approximant		v /w~ʋ/	l /l/		j /j/

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i /i/	y /ÿ/	u /u/
Mid	e /ɛ/		o /ɔ/
Open		a /a/

Morphology

Nouns inflect for definiteness, number and case. The definite suffix is -ide or -id- when followed by another suffix.

There is a distinction between inalienable and alienable possession: the former uses -yl and the latter uses -ol.

Noun cases:

• -one = dative
• -ase = comitative
• -ate = locative (from terin, house in both Clofabosin and Phormatolidin)

There are three tenses in Phormatolidin: past, non-past and gnomic. The non-past ending is -phen (related to the Clofabosin agentive -fen), and the past ending is -zole. The gnomic ending is -til, cognate to the gnomic attributive ending -tril in Clofabosin.

In the desiderative, the endings are -profen, -prazole and -protil.

Attributive verbs

The suffix -ol for alienable possession is attached to the inflected form of the verb: aspraphenol trycin (the big world), phthorazolol amphin (the person who ate).

Numbers

esin, rhebin, hallin, lopin, orphin, cybin, xolin, thycin, adin, gapharin, phemin, clythin = 1 to 12

100dd: sanin

1000dd: ichthin

Thensaro-Phormatolidin numbers

1 = chemo-