Island Germanic

General information
As the name suggests, the Island Germanic language is a Germanic language spoken by the inhabitants of a small island group called the "Germanic Islands" in the Northern Atlantic ocean. Research has shown that the inhabitants of the islands who call themselves (the) Islandish are the descendants of several Germanic tribes from Central and Northern Europe. Archaeologists have found weapons, tools and furniture on the islands which are roughly 2000 years old. Modern historians believe that several Germanic tribes feared an invasion of the Roman empire and sent out scouting troops to search for "the land behind the sea" - several scouting troops reached the Germanic islands and decided to start a new life.

Island Germanic is related to all modern Germanic languages but being isolated on an island has preserved many grammatical features that were abandoned in other Germanic languages.

Velar nasal [ŋ]
The velar nasal is an allophone of [n] before velar plosives.

Postalveolar fricative [ʃ]
The postalveolar fricative is an allophone of the consonant clusters [s] + [x] or [h].

Final devoicing
Island Germanic employs a system of devoicing syllable-final voiced consonants to their voiceless counterparts - the changes are:
 * [b] → [p]
 * [d] → [t]
 * [g] → [k]
 * [v] → [f]
 * [ð] → [θ]
 * [z] → [s]

Vowel length
Island Germanic possesses three different vowel lengths - short, long and overlong. The overlong vowel can only appear at the ends of words.
 * Short vowels: [a], [ɛ], [ɪ], [ɔ], [œ], [ʊ] and [ʏ]
 * Long vowels: [a:], [e:], [i:], [o:], [ø:], [u:] and [y:]
 * Overlong vowel: [o::]

i-Umlaut
Island Germanic has inherited the i-Umlaut - this means that back vowels change to their front equivalents when the syllable following them contains [ɪ], [i:] or (sometimes) [j]. The changes are: If [j] causes an umlaut it is dropped.
 * [ɔ] → [œ]
 * [o:] → [ø:]
 * [ʊ] → [ʏ]
 * [u:] → [y:]

Diphthongs
Island Germanic has the following diphthongs: [aɪ̯], [aʊ̯], [iʊ̯] and [ɔɪ̯]

Stress
Stress usually falls on the first syllable of a word. However, if a word contains an overlong vowel, the stress is always on it.

Vowel length
Vowel length is indicated in the following fashion:
 * Short vowels: Single vowel + double consonant (if there is a consonant following), otherwise just single vowel
 * Long vowels: Single vowel + single consonant (if there is a consonant following), otherwise a double vowel
 * Overlong vowel: Vowel + circumflex accent (^)