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'''Justin Wieber''' is a language inspired by German, Finnish and Khoekhoegowab. | '''Justin Wieber''' is a language inspired by German, Finnish and Khoekhoegowab. | ||
It's nontonal and has front rounded vowels, which makes it rather unusual for a Khoisan sprachbund language. | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== |
Revision as of 19:57, 8 September 2021
Justin Wieber is a language inspired by German, Finnish and Khoekhoegowab.
It's nontonal and has front rounded vowels, which makes it rather unusual for a Khoisan sprachbund language.
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
prevoiced stops spelled dt, bp, gk?
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
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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/, ßch /ʃ/ | ch /ç/ | ch [χ] | h /h/ | |
voiced | w /v/ | s /z/, sch /ʒ/ | |||||
Affricate | pf /pf/, bw /bv/ | z, tz /ts/ | kch /kx/ | ||||
Tap | r /ɾ/ | ||||||
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 other suprasegmentals are very similar to Standard German.
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns in [PAGENAME] 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.