Proto-South Germanic (GI)

(Note: the GI is used to distinguish this lang from others that may bare a similar name.)

Proto-South Germanic, or PSG for short, is the reconstruction of the ancester of the South Germanic languages. It dates to about the 1st century AD & it was located south of the East Germanic & Southeast of the Irminonic.

Classification and Dialects
PSG is a Germanic language (of course) that has gone through some rather odd vowel shifts.

PSG has nine sibling languages, Torolnan, Alaveenese, Rolian, Bimowodic, Klafstintoan, Stipakan, Karodian, Boltaric, Tarenan. All of them had been under influence of either Slavic languages, Romance languages, or, in some cases, both Slavic & Romance. Few additonally take German, Hungarian, Albanian, or Greek influences.

Phonology
PSG presserves most consonants from Proto-Germanic, but not all. The Sound shifts of the vowels are more odd and unusual. Additionally, u before voiced plosives becomes o:.

Vowels
Stress falls on the first syllable.

Phonotactics
Initial

pl/kl/fl/sl/bl/gl/vl/pr/tr/kr/fr/thr/br/dr/gr/vr/tv/dv/kv/sv/sm/sn

Medial

lv/rv/pp/tt/kk/ss/bb/dd/gg/ll/rr/ps/ts/ks/fy/my/ny/ly/ry/bz/dz/gz

Final

ft/st/ks/mp/mf/mz/nt/nk/nth/nz/nd/ng/lp/lt/lk/lth/ls/lb/ld/lg/lm/rp/rt/rk/rf/rth/rs/rb/rd/rg/rm/rn

All Positions

sp/st/sk

Writing System
Words are normally written with an asterisk at the beginning of each.

Grammar
Interstingly, PSG does not have any gender distinctions in the singular but presurve the masculine, feminine, & neuter genders in the plural.

Adjectives
Adjectives pressurve the genders in both singular & plural.

Strong Verbs
Interestingly & unlike the week verbs, strong verbs do not have grammatical voice nor mood.

NOTE: C = any consonant or cluster. Week Verbs

Syntax
Word order is SOV. To form questions, the word order becomes VOS.

Genitives & Adjectives preced the noun.