User:IHCOYC/Germanic language notepad

These are notes for a Germanic language based on Gothic that I'm contemplating.


 * 1) Graphic ai, au > e, o. I am assuming that Ulfila, who assembled his own alphabet and was free to draw distinctions, spelled them all the same way because they sounded alike to him.
 * a/o, ā/ō > o/a
 * θ, ð > t, d
 * 1) Open syllable rule: All closed syllables are reduced, in the following stages:
 * 2) Nasals: *N indicating either *n or *m not immediately followed by a vowel: aN, eN, iN, oN, uN → õ, ẽ, ẽ, õ, ỹ
 * 3) In a cluster of stops or fricatives + another consonant, the obstruent is deleted unless the cluster can occur word-initially.
 * 4) Liquids: eR, oR > eRe, oRo (see below)
 * 5) Consonants are palatalized by an immediately following *j:
 * 6) * sj, zj > ʃ, ʒ
 * 7) * nj, lj, rj > ň, ľ, ř
 * 8) * tj, dj > ʧ, ʤ
 * 9) * bj, pj, mj, wj > bl, pl, ml, wl
 * 10) Vowel fronting: After *j or some other palatal sound, back vowels are fronted (a, ā, u, ū, ai, au → e, ē, i, ī, ei, eu). This leads to regular alternations in the morphology.
 * 11) Prothesis: Before a word-initial vowel, j or w is usually inserted, depending on the vowel: je, ji wo, wu, but either ja or wa.
 * 12) Palatalization. k, g, x > ts, *dz, *ʃ before or occasionally after e, i. This leads to regular alterations in the morphology.
 * 13) Vowel quality shifts: All pairs of long/short vowels become differentiated as well by vowel quality:
 * a, ā > o, a
 * e, ē > je (with palatizations)
 * i, u > ɪ, ʊ
 * 1) * *ī, *ū, *ȳ > i, u, y
 * 2) Breakup of liquid-final syllables: or, ol, er, el > oro, olo, ere, olo
 * ur, ul, ir, il > syllabic r, l, ř, ľ