Brung

Introduction

Justin Wieber is a language inspired aesthetically by German, Finnish and Khoekhoegowab.

Phonology

Consonants

prevoiced stops spelled dt, bp, gk?

Brung consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Click	voiceless	kʘ /kʘ/, k! /k!/, kǀ /kǀ/, kǁ /ɡǁ/, kǂ /kǂ/
	voiced	gʘ /ŋʘ~ɡʘ/, g! /ŋ!~ɡ!/, gǀ /ŋǀ~ɡǀ/, gǁ /ɡǁ/, gǂ /ŋǂ~ɡǂ/
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/		ng /ŋ/
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/		k, ck /k/		/ʔ-/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/		g /ɡ/
Fricative	voiceless	f /f/	ß /s/, sch /ʃ/	ch /ç/		ch [χ]	h /h/
	voiced	w /v/	s /z~ʃ~s/
Affricate		pf /pf/, bw /bv/	z, tz /ts/
Tap			r [r]
Approximant			l /l/	j /j/

Vowels

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.

Prosody

Prosody and pther suprasegmentals are very similar to Standard German.

Morphology

Nouns in [PAGENAME] have three grammatical genders as in German and Nama.

Example texts

Kxǂ’auǁʼein
/ˈkxǂ’aʊ̯ǁʼaɪ̯n/