Kiɓ̰ubu

Setting
Spoken by the strange hunter-gatherer tribes of the northern coasts, Kiɓ̰ubu has always been a dying language. The land is harsh, and people scarce, so the number of Kiɓ̰ubu speakers has always been slim. The language has suffered persecution at the hans of Emedonian colonists, who scornfully label it with other savage "Barbic tongues".

Consonants
Kiɓ̰ubu consonants are by and large rather simple. Perhaps the most difficult to produce are the implosives /ɓ̰/ and /ɗ̰̪/. These two sounds are made when air is forced inwards rather than out. As such, when they are present in a word they tend to have a dominating influence, assimilating other consonants and causing shifts. See the Pronunciation section for more details.

Vowels
Kiɓ̰ubu uses a simple 5-vowel system, as follows:

Pronunciation
Kiɓ̰ubu has two implosives, /ɓ̰/ and /ɗ̰̪/. These consonants, by virtue of their pronunciation, can and will change other letter pronunciations in a word to make it simpler to pronounce. The change they induce in the nasal /n/ will cause fricatives to adopt that change as well, and this same change will cause assimilation of stops as if they were directly before the implosive. For example, /zanɗ̰̪un/ is pronounced [r̰a̰] In addition,

For example, the word /kosɗ̰̪er/ is more likely to be pronounced as [koɗ̰̪ɗ̰̪er].