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Fjallandskt Scratchpad
(NOTE: Feel free to suggest sound shifts or grammatical changes, tell me that my sound shifts suck, tell me that I suck, whatever.)

Vowel Harmony:
u-stem i-stem a-stem i+u-stem I have no idea what I am doing
 * needs to be back
 * needs to be rounded
 * needs to be front
 * needs to be unrounded
 * neutral
 * can be either back or front, rounded or unrounded
 * both rounded and fronted?
 * hesturinn > høsturinn?

Extended vowel lengthening in open syllable words were the vowel is initial:
eta → éta

ek → ék

akʀ → ákur

[s] is deleted between [r], [k], [t], and [l]:
example

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An epenthetic /p/ is inserted between /m/ and /t/ (in some past participles):
namt → nam(p)t (not shown orthographically)

Palatalization of consonant clusters
ll, gl, nn, gn → ʎ, ʎ, ɲ, ɲ

ld, nd → ʎd, ɲd

lj hlj → ʎ ʎ̥

Palatalization of the velars
k, g → ts ts / _V[+front]

Ellison of voiced fricatives
example

Metathesis of ja, jö, jo, ju before palatal consonants
[fi̯alː] → [fi̯aʎ] → [fai̯ʎ]

Not shown orthographically

“Incomplete” i-umlaut:
PN *gastiʀ → ON *gęstr → FJ gęstur “guest”

PN *hastiʀ → ON *hęstr → FJ hęstur “horse”