Brzhema [BBJ]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Glottal | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b1 | t2 | |||||||
| Fricative | ɸ̞ | β̞ | f | v | ɕ | ʑ | h | |||
| Affricate | t͡ɕ3 | d͡ʑ | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ȴ4 | |||||||||
| Trill | ʙ [ʙ̩]5 [ʙ̩̥] ʙ̥ | |||||||||
| Blends | ɕtɕ6 | ʋ̥͡ɸ7 | p͡ɕ | b͡ʙ8 | ʙ͡ʑ9 [ʙ͡ʑ̩]10 | b͡ʑ | β͡ʙ11 | v͡ʙ12 | ʋ͡β13 | ʙ͡ɕ14 [ʙ͡ɕ̩]15 |
| ɸ͡ʙ̥16 | p͡ʙ̥ | f͡ʙ̥17 |
- voiced plosives may be devoiced aside voiceless consonants
- alveolar stops are dental
- may be retracted alveolar sibilants
- retracted and palatalized
- common realization of /bʙo/ and /ʙu/
- only observed definitive two-mora cluster
- lower lip is lifted between upper teeth and upper lip. May be trill, fricative or approximant
- distinct from /ʙ/
- [ʙ] and [ʑ] at the same time; better transcribed as /bʙ͡ʑ/
- occasional realization of /ʙ͡ʑi/, particularly unstressed
- extremely tight; distinct buzzing, may have slight trill. Syllabic before u and o
- /v/ and /ʙ/ at the same time
- lower lip is lifted between upper teeth and upper lip. May be trill, fricative or approximant
- voiceless [ʙ̥] and [ɕ] at the same time; better transcribed as /pʙ̥͡ɕ/
- occasional realization of /ʙ͡ɕ̩i/, particularly unstressed
- extremely tight; distinctly turbulent sound, may have slight trill.
- /f/ and /ʙ̥/ at the same time
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
| Polyphthongs | eʊ̯ | oɪ̯ | aʊ̯ | aɪ̯ |
Syllable StructureCVC₂ (where C₂ is /m/, /n/, and more restrictedly /l/, /v~f/, /b~r/ and /s~z/ [obstruebts devoice utterance-finally but are voiced before vowels])
Stress informationPenultimate syllable.
OtherBrzhemese have bilabial trill singing, where either /ʙ/ or /β͡ʙ/ is pronounced for long stretches of time.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Brzhema. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 BrzhemaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| -// | Aa/a/ | AI ai/aɪ̯/ | AU au/aʊ̯/ | Bb/b/1 | Br br/b͡ʙ/2 | Brz brz/ʙ͡ʑ/3 | BRZI brzi[ʙ͡ʑ̩]4 | BZ bz/b͡ʑ/ | Cc/t͡ɕ/5 | Ee/e/ |
| EU eu/eʊ̯/ | Ff/f/ | FR fr/f͡ʙ̥/6 | FW fw/ʋ̥͡ɸ/7 | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʑ/ | Ll/ȴ/8 | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ |
| OI oi/oɪ̯/ | Pp/p/ | Pr pr/p͡ʙ̥/ | Prs prs/ʙ͡ɕ/9 | PRSI prsi[ʙ͡ɕ̩]10 | PS ps/p͡ɕ/ | Rr/ʙ/ | RH rh/ʙ̥/ | Ss/ɕ/ | SC sc/ɕtɕ/11 | Tt/t/12 |
| Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | VR vr/v͡ʙ/13 | VW vw/ʋ͡β/14 | Ww/β̞/ | WH wh/ɸ̞/ | WR wr/β͡ʙ/15 | WRH wrh/ɸ͡ʙ̥/16 | Zz/ʑ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- voiced plosives may be devoiced aside voiceless consonants
- distinct from /ʙ/
- [ʙ] and [ʑ] at the same time; better transcribed as /bʙ͡ʑ/
- occasional realization of /ʙ͡ʑi/, particularly unstressed
- may be retracted alveolar sibilants
- /f/ and /ʙ̥/ at the same time
- lower lip is lifted between upper teeth and upper lip. May be trill, fricative or approximant
- retracted and palatalized
- voiceless [ʙ̥] and [ɕ] at the same time; better transcribed as /pʙ̥͡ɕ/
- occasional realization of /ʙ͡ɕ̩i/, particularly unstressed
- only observed definitive two-mora cluster
- alveolar stops are dental
- /v/ and /ʙ/ at the same time
- lower lip is lifted between upper teeth and upper lip. May be trill, fricative or approximant
- extremely tight; distinct buzzing, may have slight trill. Syllabic before u and o
- extremely tight; distinctly turbulent sound, may have slight trill.
