Clofabosin

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Clofabosin
clofabide lorin
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Clofabic
  • Clofabosin
Official status
Official language in
Clofabinosin
Language codes
ISO 639-3qcf
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Lexicon

Clofabosin or Clofabian (clofabide lorin 'great river language' or simply Clofabosin) is a language inspired by generic drug names. It is an agglutinative language and the official language of Clofabinosin.

Sandbox

Thocletaflimab pegfitozole esine frebocilline $ S = \{a_0, a_1, ...\} $ daprocitole $ a_0 = 1, a_1 = 1 $ keraminide $ a_n a_{n-2} = 1 + a_{n-1}^2 $. Acalaviterax mepricythine cifuroxin $ a_n = F_{2n + 1} $ ...
Flibarosin riptine cifamoxicillin gevuflitazumab! Brecavitol motraphenone hepartogerexinonide rinopsicine flochomarezumab.
Llibrosi riptne cīmoxcilli geflitazma! Brecvitl motrāenon epartogrexnonde rinōscne llochmarzuma

Phonology

Clofabian phonology is remarkably simple, with just 14 consonants and 5 vowels.

Consonants

Clofabosin consonants
Labial Coronal Velar
Nasal m /m/ n /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/
Lat. app. l, ll /l/

[ŋ] is an allophone of /n/ before velars.

The letter x is used for /ks/.

Vowels

Clofabosin vowels
Front Central Back
Close i, y /i/ u /u/
Mid e /e/ o /o/
Open a /a/

Grammar

Nouns

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
Vocative efatastan efatastazan
Genitive efatastyl efatastazyl
Preessive efatastol efatastazol
Postessive efatastast efatastazast
Instrumental-Comitative efatastil efatastazil
Locative efatastib efatastazib
Allative efatastone efatastazone
Benefactive efatastase efatastazase
Adverbial efatastostat -

Other suffixes:
-ide (and/also, after the case suffix like Latin -que)
-phan: xor

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
Vocative toraphenan toraphenazan
Genitive toraphenyl toraphenazyl
Preessive toraphenol toraphenazol
Postessive toraphenast toraphenazast
Instrumental-Comitative toraphenil toraphenazil
Locative toraphenib toraphenazib
Allative toraphenone toraphenazone
Terminative toraphenase toraphenazase
Adverbial toraphestat -

Pronouns

  • enodin, valin, fubin - 1st, 2nd, 3rd person (animate) singular
  • enozin, vazin, fuzin - 1st, 2nd, 3rd person (animate) plural
  • cethyl = this, fusyl = that

Verbs

  • cytam - do
  • keram - exist
    • keratin - thing (something that exists)

Honorific

  • pro-: for nouns
  • ci-: for verbs
  • cipro-: high honorific
Provopraphen hydrine cilyram.
The teacher drinks water.

Voice

  • -v-: passive
  • -x-: causative

Discourse

  • flo-: negative
  • -mab pegol: subjunctive
  • -mab: past
  • -vir: present
  • -fil = hortative
  • -pril = attributive
  • -zomib = suggestion
  • -sertib = when (< sertin 'time')
  • -sartan = if

Other affixes

  • -tib/-tinib = conjunctive
  • -van = but..., -ativan = is, but...
  • -stat = adverbial, purposive affix
  • dex-, levo-: ???

Numerals

Clofabosin uses a base-12 numeral system. Numerals are nouns and precede the modified noun.

  • 1: esin
  • 2: rivin
  • 3: salin
  • 4: tizin
  • 5: orfin
  • 6: cibin
  • 7: xolin
  • 8: ticin
  • 9: vadin
  • X: gabarin
  • E: futin
  • 10: femin
  • 11: femesin
  • 12: ferivin
  • 13: fesalin
  • 14: fetizin
  • 15: femorphin
  • 16: fecibin
  • 17: fexolin
  • 18: feticin
  • 19: fevadin
  • 1X: fegafarin
  • 12: fefuthin
  • 20: rimin
  • 21: rimesin
  • 22: ririvin
  • 30: salemin
  • 100: sanin
  • 1000: ictin

Derivational morphology

  • -atin, -atinyl: nominalizer
  • -cillin: collective/place noun
  • clo-: augmentative
  • -mycin: NOUN-ness

Phrases

  • Furine! - Hello!/Goodbye!
  • Valonide furine! (to one person)/Valonalide furine! (to many people)/Provolonide furine (polite) - Hello!/Goodbye! (reply to Furine!)
  • Calcam! (familiar)/Calcamab! (polite)/Calcazumab! (very polite) - Thank you!
  • Enodyl allin $NAME cytamab. - My name is $NAME.