Verse:Hmøøh/Phormatolide
| Hmøøh/Phormatolide | |
|---|---|
| phormatolidin | |
| File:Script Phormatolidin.png | |
| Created by | Praimhín |
| Setting | Verse:Hussmauch, Verse:Mirth |
"CW-Complex"
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| Official status | |
Official language in | Phormatin |
| Regulated by | none |
Phormatolidin is a sister language of Clofabosin, spoken in Talma. Its grammar is simplified from Old Clofabosin, but it preserves a few archaic features that are lost in Clofabosin.
rachin = water (< *rask; ~ Clofab raxin, Schwünter Rasch)
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
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 /v/ | l /l/ | |||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i /i/ | y /ÿ/ | u /u/ |
| Mid | e /e/ | o /o/ | |
| Open | a /a/ |
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
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:
- -ine /i:n/ = accusative
- -one = dative
- -ase = comitative
- -ate = locative (from terin, house in both Clofabosin and Phormatolidin)
- -ium = relativizer
Pronouns
cephin, ceph- = this
fluorin, fluoro- = that
glycin, glyco- = who? what?
Verbs
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: chlorophenol trycin (the big world), phthozolol amphin (the person who ate).
Syntax
Due to Talmic and Netagin influence, Phormatolidin is significantly more head-initial than Clofabosin; its basic word order is SVO and uses postpositions.
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Numbers
esin, rhein, hallin, lopin, orphin, cybin, xolin, thycin, adin, gapharin, phemin, clutin = 1 to 12
100dd: sanin
1000dd: ichthin
Thensaro-Phormatolidin numbers
1 = chemo-