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/ | |
| 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.
6) /i, u/ are realised as [ɛ, ɔ] after a palatalised or labialised plosive, or a semivowel.
7) /i, u/ are realised as [ɛ, ɔ] before a word-final liquid or semivowel.
Prosody
Stress
Gammidɡe has fixed stress and always bears stress on the initial syllable.