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-'''Hanebrugish''' (<small>Hanebrugish:&nbsp;</small> ''Hanebrugish''; <span class="nowrap" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" style="font-family:Gentium,'DejaVu Sans','Segoe UI',sans-serif">/ˈhanəbryɡiʃ/</span>), also spelled '''Hanebruggish''', is a [[w:Germanic languages|Germanic]] conlang originally developed for Hanebrug, a city founded by a small band of friends (who all happened to be linguistics nerds) on a [[w:Minecraft|Minecraft]] Realm in September 2023. Its lack of umlaut, rhotacism and other similarities to [[w:Gothic language|East Germanic]] make it characteristically simple and conservative compared to other Germanic languages that are spoken today.
+'''Hanebrugish''' (<small>Hanebrugish:&nbsp;</small> ''Hanebrugish''; <span class="nowrap" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" style="font-family:Gentium,'DejaVu Sans','Segoe UI',sans-serif">/ˈhanəbryɡiʃ/</span>), also spelled '''Hanebruggish''', is a [[w:Germanic languages|Germanic]] conlang originally developed for Hanebrug, a city founded by a small band of friends (who all happened to be linguistics nerds) on a [[w:Minecraft|Minecraft]] Realm in September 2023. Its lack of umlaut and rhotacism and its other similarities to [[w:Gothic language|East Germanic]] make it characteristically simple and conservative compared to other Germanic languages that are spoken today.
+==Etymology==
+Hanebrug is ultimately named after one of Charles' cats, Hannah, who had already been enjoying a sort of celebrity status within the friend group; ''Hane'' is the Charles' favorite nickname for her. The original suggestion for the city's name was actually ''Haneburg'', but the simple typo stuck, and it was thus officially named ''Hanebrug''. In Hanebrugish, ''Hanebrug'' can be analyzed as a compound of ''Hane'' ("Hannah, Hane") + ''brug'' ("bridge"), making the city's name literally translate to "Hanebridge." ''brug'' comes from Proto-Germanic [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/brugj%C7%AD *brugjǭ], with highly irregular schwa-deletion (the expected form would be ''*bruge''). The irregularity of ''brug'' likely has to do with it having originally been a simple mispelling of ''burg'', not a word derived from anything.
 ==History==