Clofabosin

Clofabosin
clofaboserotin, clofabosin
Created by	IlL, Praimhín
Setting	Hussmauch
Language family	Clofabo-Dodellic Clofabic Clofabosin
Official status
Official language in	Clofabinositin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	qcf

Lexicon (needs updating)
Swadesh list

Clofabosin or Clofabian (clo-fabo-serotin /klofaboseɾotin/ 'great-river language' or simply Clofabosin /klofabosin/) is a language inspired by generic drug names. It is an agglutinative language and the official language of Clofabinositin. Clofabosin is also the main lingua franca of Hussmauch.

Todo

Drug suffixes

• -eridine, -clidine, -pirdine, -tadine, -tidine, -vudine
• -dipine
• -ribine

Phonology

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

Consonants

Clofabosin 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/
Lat. app.			l, ll /l/

The letter x is used for /ks/.

Notes

• Voiceless plosives are slightly aspirated like in Japanese.
• Word-final obstruents b d g are devoiced to [p t k]: ustekinumab [ustekinumap] 'welcome'.
• [ŋ] is an allophone of /n/ before velars.

Vowels

Clofabosin 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.

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
Genitive	efatasto-		efatastazo-
Preessive	efatastol		efatastazol
Postessive	efatastast		efatastazast
Instructive	-		efatastazepam
Locative	efatastib		efatastazib
Allative	efatastone		efatastazone
Comitative	efatastase		efatastazase
Benefactive	efatastadox		efatastazadox
Adverbial	efatastostat		-

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
Genitive	torapheno-		toraphenazo-
Preessive	toraphenol		toraphenazol
Postessive	toraphenast		toraphenazast
Instructive	-		toraphenazepam
Locative	toraphenib		toraphenazib
Allative	toraphenone		toraphenazone
Comitative	toraphenase		toraphenazase
Benefactive	toraphenadox		toraphenazadox
Adverbial	toraphestat		-

Pronouns

Personal pronouns

• endin, valin = 1st, 2nd person singular.
  • Casually 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
• dapsin = reflexive pronoun

Correlatives

• cesin, cerin = this (thing), this (person)
• flusin, flurin = that (thing), that (person)
• glisin, glirin = what? who?
• ranasin, ranarin = something, someone
• cef-, flu-, gli- = this X, that X, what X?
• cepa, flupa-, glipa- = 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

Clofabidin 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	Quotative
Past	-zole	-zumab	-zosartan/-zartan	-zobactam	-zosertib /-zertib	-sermin	-zolast	-stat	-stim	-zomib	-pirdine
Present	-vir	-mab	-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 as the imperative.

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).

The potential ('can') uses -tecan (inflected as if it were -tecavir; the attributive is -taxel), and the debitive ('must') uses the subjunctive plus tiuxetan; the subject is put into the dative.

The prefix peg- can be used to indicate uncertainty ('may/might').

The desiderative uses the following suffixes:

	Indicative	Subjunctive
Past	-prazole	-prazumab
Present	-profen	-promab
Timeless	-protinib	-protumab
Future	-farcept	-proximab

For example, Raxine locaprofen = '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 spactinavir. = 'I am thirsty.' (lit. To me is thirst)
• Endone Clofabosinatecaprofen. = 'I want to be able to speak Clofabosin.'

Predicate nouns can be expressed with predicative suffixes in addition to the verb cyta-. 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 vopraphen cytavir and Endin vopraphenavir both mean "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 and Endin vopraphen cytaprofen both mean "I want to be a teacher".

For negating infinitives of desideratives, -profloxacin is used.

Attributive verbs

Attributive verbs may be formed with the following suffixes:

	Indicative	Desiderative
Past	-zil	-prozil
Present	-dil	-pril
Timeless	-tril	-protil
Future	-cil	-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 sbýth (a Tigal musical instrument)'.

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.

Numerals

Clofabosin uses a base-12 numeral system. Numerals are nouns and precede the modified noun. The -asin/-abin suffix is used to build ordinals, except 'first' is irregular: lutasin (inanimate), lutabin (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: futin
• 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.

Etabib suxitin keravir.

There is a picture on the wall.

Purpose clauses

Purpose clauses can be formed with -DESID + -QUOT (-provudine in the present tense and -propirdine in the past tense).

Clofabosinaprovudine drepatine fuletazole.

Clofab-osi-na-pro-vudine drepa-t-ine fuleta-zole

Clofabian-ATT.INAN-PRED-DES-PRES.QUOT read-PAT-ACC 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
• -tin: patient noun
• -axin: 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.
  • ...Tigorinavir. - ...Tigal.
  • ...Nurorinavir. - ...Nurian.
  • ...Cagasarinavir. - ...Kagasan.
  • ...Vibarinavir. (?) - ...Wiebian.
• En cefgarib dirpamab tiuxetan. - I must rest today.