Br'ga

This page is a collection of notes. One day, I'll organise them.

Last major org was Feb 17, 2006.

The Alphabet

Vowels

IPA

i				ɯ	u
	e		ə	ʏ	o
		a		ɑ	ɒ

Orthographic

i				ı	u
	e		ʼ	ə	o
		ä		a	å

Consonants

Orthographic	IPA
b	b
br	ʙ
ch	tʃ
d	d
dr	r
f	f
g	g
gr	ʀ
h	h
k	k
l	l
ll	ʟ
n	n
p	p
s	s
sh	ʃ
t	t
tj	cç
v	ʋ
w	w
x	x
y	j
z	s̪

Phonemic /n/ assimilates to the following consonant, even through a vowel. Phonemic /n/ without a following non-nasal consonant assimilates to the previous consonant, even through a vowel. Orthographically, /n/ is represented by n before apical sounds, ñ before laminal or dorsal sounds, and m before labial sounds.

Word Structure

Every word consists of noun.stem-verb.stem.

A noun-stem is any root followed by any sequence of zero or more suffixes that ends with a noun-class suffix or root.

A verb-stem is any root followed by any sequence of zero or more suffixes that ends with a verb-class suffix or root.

Affixes

Some example verb→verb suffixes are:

-lun	makes an agent-focussed verb into a benefective-focussed verb, for instance learn→teach
-na	the reverse of that action, for instance learn→forget