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'''Brung''' is a Khoisan language isolate spoken in Lõis's South Africa and Namibia.
 
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'''Justin Wieber''' is a language inspired aesthetically by German, Finnish and Khoekhoegowab.
 
==Phonology==
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Orthography===
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Lifted from Finnish.
Lifted from Finnish.


[PAGENAME] 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.
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 pther suprasegmentals are very similar to Standard German.
Prosody and other suprasegmentals are very similar to Standard German.


===Phonotactics===
===Phonotactics===
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==Morphology==
==Morphology==


Nouns in [PAGENAME] have three grammatical genders as in German and Nama.
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.
There are four grammatical cases: nominative, accusative, genitive/prepositional and ablative, the last functioning as a partitive and a dechticaetiative.
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