Clofabosin

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

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Swadesh list

Clofabosin or Clofabian (Clofabosin: clo·fabo·serotin /klofaboseɾotin/ 'great-river language' or simply clofabosin /klofabosin/) is an agglutinative, head-final language inspired by nonproprietary drug names. It is the official language of Clofabinositin.

Todo

Drug suffixes

• -sporin
• -anserin
• -nefa-
• -pristin, -pristone
• -dar
• -kalant, -nakalant
• -imex

Orthography

Clofabian script

Clofabosin is written in a left-to-right cursive alphabet (meant to parody the handwriting in doctors' prescriptions). Usually words are not capitalized (not even proper nouns) unless they are at the beginning of a sentence.

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/
Approximant		[w]	l, ll /l/

The letter x is used for /ks/.

Notes

• Voiceless plosives are lightly aspirated like in Japanese.
• Word-final plosives b d g p t k are unreleased: ustekinumab [ustekinumab̚] 'welcome'.
• [ŋ] is an allophone of /n/ before velars.
• [w] is an allophone of /v/ after velars /k, g/. It is written qu, gu in this case.

Vowels

Clofabosin vowels

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

Notes

• /e, o/ are mid [e̞, o̞].
• /a/ is central [ä].

Grammar

Nouns

Clofabian nouns have over 11 cases (the exact number depends on who's counting), however the case clitics are not true suffixes. Plurals are usually reserved for animates, and are never used with numbers or quantifiers.

1st declension

The nominative resp. the accusative have -in resp. -ine; other cases drop these suffixes.

efataxin - drug
Number→ Case↓	Singular		Plural
Nominative	efataxin		efataxazin
Accusative	efataxine		efataxazine
Genitive	efataxol, efataxo-		efataxazol, efataxazo-
Preessive	efataxabine [efataksabin]		efataxazabine
Postessive	efataxacetam		efataxazacetam
Instructive	-		efataxazepam
Locative	efataxib		efataxazib
Allative	efataxone [efatakson]		efataxazone
Comitative	efataxase		efataxazase
Benefactive	efataxadox, efataxox		efataxazadox, efataxazox
Semblative	efataxostat		-

2nd declension

Nom. resp. acc. ends in -n resp. -ne; other cases add their suffixes onto the -n-.

torcaphen - poet
Number→ Case↓	Singular		Plural
Nominative	torcaphen		torcaphenazin
Accusative	torcaphene		torcaphenazine
Genitive	torcaphenol, torcapheno-		torcaphenazol, torcaphenazo-
Preessive	torcaphenabine		torcaphenazabine
Postessive	torcaphenacetam		torcaphenazacetam
Instructive	-		torcaphenazepam
Locative	torcaphenib		torcaphenazib
Allative	torcaphenone		torcaphenazone
Comitative	torcaphenase		torcaphenazase
Benefactive	torcaphenadox, torcaphenox		torcaphenazadox, torcaphenazox
Semblative	torcaphestat		-

Other clitics

• -ast: 'and'
• dex-: 'only'
• -protafib: 'about'
  • Ezin nelast mecoprotafib seroxavir. 'We are speaking about love and hate.'
• X alfa: 'X also'
• beta: 'but'
• nab- = focus, intensifier

Pronouns

Personal pronouns

• endin, valin = 1st, 2nd person singular.
  • 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
  • ezin is a common short form for enazin.
• dapsin = reflexive pronoun

Correlatives

• cef-, cesin, cerin = this X, this (thing), this (person)
• flu-, flusin, flurin = that X, that (thing), that (person)
• gli-, glisin, glirin = what X?, what? who?
• pre-, presin, prerin = all X, everything, everyone
• nal-, nasin, narin = many
• nor-, nosin, norin = some
• vin-, visin, virin = few
• luta-, lutasin, lutarin = other, another
• cepavir, flupavir, glipavir = 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
• cef-, flu-, and gli- can be used as object affixes

Verbs

Tense and mood

Clofabosin 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	"Because" / Quotative
Past	-zole [-zol]	-zumab	-zosartan, -zartan	-zobactam	-zosertib, -zertib	-sermin	-zolast	-stat	-stim, -mostim	-zomib	-pirdine [-piɾdin]
Present	-vir	-mab, -mumab	-sartan	-bactam	-sertib	-fermin	-lukast			-mer	-vudine [-vudin]
Timeless	-tinib	-tumab, -tumomab	-tisartan, -tartan			-termin	-trodast				-tidine, -tidine [-tidin]
Future	-cept, -vircept	-ximab, -viximab	-cisartan, -xartan			-xermin	-lukast				-clidine [-klidin]

The progressive form is marked by -xa-: sporaxavir 'is eating'.

The subjunctive is used like the infinitive and imperative in other languages (e.g. Stilocamab! 'Sing!'). It can also be used to indicate uncertainty, like "may" or "might".

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).

• 'can' uses -tecan (inflected as if it were -tecavir; the attributive is -taxel)
• 'must' uses -mab tiuxetan; the subject is put into the dative.
• 'should' uses -mab cituxetan
• 'is worth' uses -xaban
• 'right when' uses -fingol or -zofingol
• Emphasis or agreement uses -toxa-/-toxu-: Ene nelcatoxaximab pegol? means 'Will he really love me?'

The verbal noun uses the suffix -kin/-kiren (sometimes -kinra). For negating verbal nouns, -floxacin is used: Gosifloxacin guancumavir 'Not giving is worse'.

The desiderative uses the following suffixes:

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

For example, Raxine plocaprofen = '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 clofabosinatecaprofen. = 'I want to be able to speak Clofabosin.'

Predicate nouns can be expressed with predicative suffixes. 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 vopraphenavir means "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 means "I want to be a teacher".

Attributive verbs

Attributive verbs may be formed with the following suffixes:

	Indicative	Desiderative
Past	-zil	-prozil
Present	-dil	-pril
Timeless	-tril	-protil
Future	-cil / -racil	-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 sbúith (Tigal 'viola da gamba')'.

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.

Degree

• clo- = 'very'
• guan- = comparative
• peg- = superlative

For example, Tigavosin tricib pegbevolidil serotinavir. means 'Tigal is the world's most studied language.'

Auxiliary verbs

• -cona- 'to try X-ing' (< 'to see')
• -gosi- 'to X for someone' (< 'to give')
• -nida- 'to X in advance' (< 'to place')

Other affixes

• -cillin: 'let alone'
• -fil: cohortative
  • Zanamifil! 'Let's play!'
  • En alfa sporafil! 'Let me eat it too!'
• ri-: 'again, re-'

Numerals

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

• 1: esin (inanimate), elin (animate)
• 2: rivin
• 3: salin
• 4: bevolin
• 5: orfin
• 6: cibin
• 7: zolin
• 8: tixin
• 9: vadin
• X: gabarin
• E: femin
• 10: clutin
• 11: clutesin
• 12: clurivin
• 13: clusalin
• 14: clubevolin
• 15: clutorfin
• 16: clucibin
• 17: cluzolin
• 18: clutixin
• 19: cluvadin
• 1X: clugafarin
• 1E: clufemin
• 20: ritin
• 21: ritesin
• 22: ririvin
• 30: salutin
• 100: sanin
• 1000: ictin

Syntax

Existence clauses

For expressing existence the verb kera- "to exist" is used.

Etamib suxitin keravir.

There is a picture on the wall.

Cause clauses

Cause clauses are formed with the quotative.

Complement clauses

Complement clauses are formed using the quotative. The bare quotative is enough when using it with a "quoting" verb such as lavir 'say' or ratrivir 'believe'. To nominalize complement clauses you need lakin, the verbal noun of lavir: felavudine lakin '[the fact] that it's cold'.

Purpose clauses

Purpose clauses can be formed with -DESID + -QUOT (-provudine in the present tense and -propirdine in the past tense). Colloquially -RES (-stim/-mostim) can be used.

Drepatine clofabosinaprovudine fuletazole.

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

read-PAT-ACC Clofabian-ATT.INAN-PRED-DES-PRES.QUOT 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
  • rovastatin 'knowledge' < rovavir 'be known'
• -tin: patient noun
• -axin: instrument
• -stin: 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.
  • ...tigavorinavir. - ...Tigal.
  • ...nurorinavir. - ...Nurian.
  • ...cagasarinavir. - ...Kagasan.
  • ...ramanuzarinavir. - ...Raamaanujan.
  • ...vibarinavir. (?) - ...Wiebian.
• En cefgarib dirpamab tiuxetan. - I must rest today.
• Vane nelcavir. - I love you.

Sample texts

UDHR, Article 1

Prevampazin zocralutril sertimod coplitrodast tulcast virpitaprotafib inflitinib.
/pɾevampazin zokɾalutɾil seɾtimod̚ koplitɾodast tulkast viɾpitapɾotafib̚ inflitinib̚/
pre-amp-az-in zocra-li-tril sert-imod copli-trodast tulc-ast virpita-protafib infli-tinib
all-human-PL-NOM give_birth-PASS-GNOM.ATT time-ABL free-GNOM.CONJ worth-and entitlement-about equal-GNOM.IND
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Ampazin ziudiximod cetirizast dapsolopritine ciclotrodast, aferone ruxinelol temazepam evicotumab tiuxetan.
/ampazin ziudiksimod̚ ketiɾizast dapsolopɾitine kiklotɾodast ǀ afeɾon ɾuksinelol temazepam evikotumab̚ tiuksetan/
amp-az-in ziudix-imod cetiriz-ast dapso-lopri-t-ine ciclo-trodast, afer-one ruxi-nel-ol tem-azepam evico-tumab tiuxetan
human-PL-NOM nature-ABL rationality-and self-control-NOMZ-ACC receive-GNOM.CONJ, each_other-DAT brother-love-GEN spirit-PL.INST act-GNOM.SUBJ must
They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

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