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''' | '''Brung''' is a Khoisan language isolate spoken in Lõis's South Africa and Namibia. | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
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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=== | ||
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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. | There are four grammatical cases: nominative, accusative, genitive/prepositional and ablative, the last functioning as a partitive and a dechticaetiative. | ||