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".

Word Order
Kiɓ̰ubu is OVS, or Object-Verb-Subject. Quirkily, adjectives follow the nouns in the ergative case and precede those in the absolutive case. Adverbs tend to follow the word being modified (unless modifying an absolutive adjective, in which case they precede). Direct objects will precede indirect objects. Because it is head-initial, dependent clauses follow the verb.

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 of /n/ to [r̃] will always result in creaky voice, in both consonants and vowels, as can the dropping of post-implosive stops. However, the presence of [r̃] can trigger the change of fricatives, usually /s/ and /z/, to become {r}; it also can cause the change of the stops /p/ or /b/ to /ɓ̰/ and /t/ or /d/ to /ɗ̰̪/. An example would be the pronunciation of /doanɓ̰ar/ as [ɗ̰o̰a̰r̰̃ɓ̰a̰r̰].