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

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

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

6) /i, u/ are realised as [ɛ, ɔ] after a palatalised or labialised plosive.

7) /i, u/ are realised as [ɛ, ɔ] before a word-final liquid.

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

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