Br'ga

Location & Origin

Br'ga is spoken on an island about midway between Sri Lanka and Madagascar. The language has phonetic and grammatical features found in both African and Indic languages, though it appears to be an isolate. There are, however, very many loan words from various trade languages — some estimates place the portion of borrowed lexicon at between ⅓ and ½ of the attested roots. However, in everyday speech, this group of roots makes up well over ¾ of the common lexicon. Borrowings come from English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Sanskrit, Hindi, Pali, Arabic, and Swahili at the very least, with many "second generation" loans of words that were loaned into those languages from around the world.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Dental	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Voiced Stops	b	d	ḍ	j	g	ģ
Voiceless Stops	p	t	ṭ	c	k	ķ
Aspirated Stops	ph	th	ṭh	ch	kh	ķh
Implosive Stops	bb	dd	ḍḍ	jj	gg	ģģ
Trills	br	dr			gr
Plain Click		q
Nasalized Click		nq
Lateralized Click		lq
Plain Affricates		ts	ṭṣ	cç	kx
Lateral Affricate		tlh
Voiced Fricative							ḥ
Plain Fricatives		s	ṣ	ç	x		h
Lateral Fricative		lh
Rhotics		r	ṛ
Liquids	w			y
Lateral		l
Nasals	m	n	ṇ	ñ	ň

Vowels

Written	IPA
a	ɑ
e	e
ê	ɛ
i	ɪ
u	ʊ
ü	ʏ
'	ə

Phonotactics

Syllable sequence in root words is strictly CV. Word structure is (V)?(CV)+(C)? Single-phoneme particles / glue-words may be any vowel, click, affricate, or fricative.