Sydlandic

Classification and Dialects
Sydlandic is a North Germanic languages which roses from the Old Norse dialects the Scandinavian settlers spoke. Because of its geographical isolation it's still very grammatically very conservative like Icelandic and Faroese and the changes of the Scandinavian languages, like in Danish or Swedish the lost of the cases, has never taken place.

Writing System

 * 1) If the letter e is in the first or only syllable of a word, it is pronounced /ε/, otherwise /ə/, e.g. jeg /jεj/ (=I) or beta /bεta/ (=to bet), but Sýdlænske /sydlænʃkə/ (=Sydlandic)
 * 2) If the letter g is the last letter of a word, it is pronounced /j/, otherwise /g/, e.g. dag /daj/ (=day - nominative), but dagýr /dagyɐ̯/ (=day - accusative)
 * 3) If the letter n is followed by the letter g, it is pronounced /ŋ/, e.g. singa /siŋa/ (=to sing)
 * 4) If the letter r is preceded by a vowel and/or followed by a consonant, it is pronounced /ɐ̯/ (r-vocalization), otherwise /ʁ/, e.g. m æ r /mæɐ̯/ (=we), but skréjva /ʃkʁεjva/ (=to write)
 * 5) If the letter s is followed by the letters k or j, it is pronounced /ʃ/, e.g. skréjva /ʃkʁεjva/ (=to write) or sjáua /ʃjaʊ̯a/ (=to watch)
 * 6) The digraph áu is pronounced /aʊ̯/, e.g. táur /taʊ̯ɐ̯/ (=dew)
 * 7) If the letter ð is preceded by a consonant, it is not pronounced, but the consonant is phonetically lengthened, otherwise preceded by a vowel or a vocalic r, it is pronounced, e.g. mo n ð /mon:/ (=mouth), but ðæt /ðæt/ (=it)
 * 8) The letter é is used if the e-sound does not correspond to the first rule, so if the e-sound is not pronounced /ə/ in the polysyllabic words, e.g. presidént /pʁεsidεnt/ (=president - otherwise if it were written president, it would be pronounced /pʁεsidənt/ following the first rule)
 * 9) The digraph éj is pronounced /εj/, e.g. ðéj /ðεj/ (=they)

Nouns
Nouns in Sydlandic inflect depending on the gender, case, definiteness and number.