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{{Infobox|name=Westgẽmanix
{{Infobox|name=Westgermanish
|pronounce=/west.geə.'mɑ:n.iʃ/
|pronounce=/wɛst.'geəːɹ.mɑ:n.iʃ/
|tu=Present, Earth
|tu=Present, on a parallel Earth
|species=Human
|species=Human
|in=Europe
|in=West Germania (Federation of Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark, East Germany and Crimea)
|no=Unknown
|no=Unknown
|script=Latin alphabet (West Germanic variant)
|script=Latin alphabet (West Germanic variant)
|tree=Indo-European<br>
|tree=Indo-European<br>
&nbsp;Germanic<br>
&nbsp;[[Germanic]]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;West Germanic<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;[[West Germanic]]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Anglo-Frisian<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Anglo-Frisian<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Anglic<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Anglic<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Old English<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Old English]]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(New) West Germanic<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(New) West Germanic<br>
|morph=Inflecting
|morph=Inflecting
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|date=July 2008}}
|date=July 2008}}


(New) West Germanic (Westgẽmanix) is a recent West Germanic language, which is closely related to others such as Dutch, English, Frisian and German as well as sharing some traits with North Germanic languages. West Germanic is a descendant of Old English, with an amount of vocabulary derived from Modern Dutch.
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West Germanic grammar is similar to that of Dutch and German, particularly its syntax, but has undergone a degree of deflexion, much more so than Dutch but mostly not to the extent of English. West Germanic has retained the usage of three genders, yet these have become simplified because they now relate purely to biological gender.
[[Category: conlangs]]
 
As Dutch and English, the consonant system of New West Germanic did not undergo the High German consonant shift. Complex consonant clusters are, typically of Germanic languages, allowed by the syllable structure.
 
West Germanic vocabulary could be said to be more Germanic in origin than its predecessors due to drawing neologisms from compounds of old words whereas others have shunned native words in favour of Latin or Greek equivalents; German followed a similar process, which has however been taken a step further in West Germanic.

Latest revision as of 14:26, 17 July 2011


Westgermanish
Pronounced: /wɛst.'geəːɹ.mɑ:n.iʃ/
Timeline and Universe: Present, on a parallel Earth
Species: Human
Spoken: West Germania (Federation of Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark, East Germany and Crimea)
Total speakers: Unknown
Writing system: Latin alphabet (West Germanic variant)
Genealogy: Indo-European

 Germanic
  West Germanic
   Anglo-Frisian
    Anglic
     Old English

      (New) West Germanic
Typology
Morphological type: Inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment: Nominative-accusative
Basic word order: V2
Credits
Creator: S.C. Anderson
Created: July 2008

Article will be updated.

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