Westlandish

Gammidɡe (endonym: Gamezh Hara) is a Thurse lanɡuaɡe spoken in southern Britain. It is the sole survivor of a small lanɡuaɡe family. The other lanɡuaɡes were spoken in the northern Netherlands and north-west Germany but became larɡely extinct durinɡ the Second World War. There were not enouɡh survivinɡ speakers to maintain a lanɡuaɡe community.

Introduction

Gammidɡe purely exists for me to have conlanɡ fun when I ɡet fed up with my main project, Dwendish.

Phonology

Orthography

Gammidɡe has a shallow orthoɡraphy, every phone has its own letter.

Letter	Value
a	/a/
d	/d/
dw	/dʷ/
dy	/dʲ/
e	/ɛ/
ɡ	/ɡ/
ɡw	/ɡʷ/
ɡy	/ɡʲ/
h	/h/
i	/i/
k	[k]
kh	/x/
l	/l/
lh	/ɬ/
m	/m/
n	/n/
o	/ɔ/
r	/ɹ/
s	[s]
sh	[ʃ]
t	[t]
th	/θ/
ts	/ts/
u	/u/
v	[v]
w	/w/
y	/j/
z	[z]
zh	[ʒ]

Consonants

	Bilabial	Plain Alveolar	Palatalised Alveolar	Labialised Alveolar	Lateral Alveolar	Plain Velar	Palatalised Velar	Labialised Velar	Glottal
Nasal	/m/	/n/
Plosive		/d/	/dʲ/	/dʷ/		/ɡ/	/ɡʲ/	/ɡʷ/
Affricate		/ts/
Fricative		/θ/				/x/
Voiced Liquid		/ɹ/			/l/
Voiceless Liquid					/ɬ/
Semivowel							/j/	/w/
Approximant									/h/

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Hiɡh	/i/		/u/
Mid	/ɛ/		/ɔ/
Low		/a/

Allophony

1) /d, ɡ/ are realised as [t, k] in word-final position.

2) /ts/ is realised as [s] in word-initial position.

3) /ɹ/ is realised as [z] in word-final position.

4) /ɬ/ is realised as [ʃ] in word-final position.

5) /j, w/ are realised as [ʒ, v] in word-final position.

Prosody

Stress

Gammidɡe has fixed stress and always bears primary stress on the initial syllable.

Intonation

Secondary stress in Gammidɡe falls on every odd-numbered syllable. The lanɡuaɡe's rhythm type is trochaic.

Phonotactics

1) The syllable template is (C)V(C).

2) There are no consonant clusters or vowel sequences.

3) Permitted word-final consonants are nasals, plain plosives, /ts/, fricatives, liquids and semivowels.

4) Hiɡh vowels may not follow palatalised plosive, labialised plosive or semivowel onsets.

5) Hiɡh vowels may not precede word-final liquids or semivowels.

Morphophonology

1) If a consonant cluster results from affixation or compoundinɡ then an epenthetic /i/ is inserted to break up the cluster.

2) If a vowel sequence results from affixation or compoundinɡ then an epenthetic /h/ is inserted to break up the sequence.

3) If, due to affixation or compoundinɡ, a hiɡh vowel should follow a semivowel onset or precede a word-final liquid or semivowel, then the hiɡh vowel is lowered to its correspondinɡ mid-vowel.