User:Exodus/Angel Islander languages

The Angel Islander languages are a branch of the Echidna languages consisting of Old Angel Islander, which split some time ago into Modern Angel Islander, Dark Legionary, and Lost Tribal. The phonology of Old and Modern Angel Islander has similarities to Icelandic, Welsh, Burmese, and Old English. This is because of the graphemes th, ch, and j being present in (formerly) canon names of the denizens of Angel Island. Exodvs surmised these had the values of [θ tʃ dʒ] respectively, and researched languages with [θ] along with contrasting voiced and unvoiced palatal plosives.

Phonology
Old Angel Islander had the following inventory.

Vowel length was contrastive.

Differences among sister languages
Modern Angel Islander has all the consonants of its parent. It also has vowels [y ø], and lacks intervocalic, non-geminate voiced stops; [d] disappeared, [g] became [w j] or disappeared depending on immediate environment, and [b] became [w], which is in free variation with [v] (OAI prabda -> prawda, realized as [ˈprav.da]). Most initial instances of [w] were lost. Lost Tribal lost the voiceless resonants and transformed [ð θ] to [z s], [u] to [y], [ou] to [u], [ʃ] to [s] and lost contrastive vowel length. Dark Legionary, being spoken by maybe a few hundred descendants of Angel Islanders in isolation, had some of the fewest changes compared to its sisters. However, [ʍ w] became [f v] in all positions, [p] became [f] initially before approximates, and [iu] became [y].