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'''Brung''' is a Khoisan language isolate spoken in Lõis's South Africa and Namibia. | |||
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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
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| '''z, tz''' /ts/ | | '''z, tz''' /ts/ | ||
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! colspan="2" |Tap | ! colspan="2" |Tap | ||
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| '''r''' / | | '''r''' /ɾ/ | ||
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Lifted from Finnish. | Lifted from Finnish. | ||
Brung has vowel harmony where front and back vowels can't be in the same word; in addition, there's also click harmony where words that have front vowels can have palatal clicks but not alveolar clicks, which pattern with back vowels. Bilabial, dental and lateral clicks are considered neutral. | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
Prosody and | Prosody and other suprasegmentals are very similar to Standard German. | ||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
Nouns in | Nouns in Brung have three grammatical genders as in German and Nama. | ||
There are four grammatical cases: nominative, accusative, genitive/prepositional and ablative, the last functioning as a partitive and a dechticaetiative. | |||
Nominal morphology is marked entirely on the article/determiner. Determiners depend on specificity, deixis, gender, number, case, and honorifics. | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
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==Example texts== | ==Example texts== | ||
==Other resources== | ==Other resources== |
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