Clofabosin/Middle

Old Clofabosin is the oldest attested form of Clofabosin. The dialect that borrowed loans en masse from Dodellian became Middle Clofabosin.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Velar	Labiovelar
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/		[ŋ]
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/		c, k /k/	qu /kʷ/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/		g /g/
Fricative	voiceless	ph, f /f/	th /θ/	s /s/ ŝ /sʰ/	ch /x/
	voiced			z /z/
Trill				r /r/
Approximant			l /l/			v /w/

Old Clofabosin had geminates, unlike modern Clofabosin: for example, 'to learn' was nibbuvir (modern nịbuvir).

Vowels

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

By the time of Middle Clofabosin, /y/ had merged with /i/.

Morphology

Nouns

• -in = topic marker
• -ol = genitive; -o = combining form
• -ase = with
• -one = towards

Verbs

• -vir = present
• -zole = past
• -capt, -cept = future
• -il = attributive