"General West Germanic"

[Wario Toad 32]

I got this idea from this thread viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4981. What if there was a standard West Germanic Orthography or language like there is with Chinese or how people try to do it with Romance languages.

Vowels
Common (Found in English, Dutch, and German)
Front: /ε ɪ e i/
Central: /a ə/
Back: /ɑ ɔ o u/
Diphthongs: /aɪ au oɪ/

Other Vowels
/æ/ (English)
/ø ʏ y/ (Dutch and German)
/œ/ (German)
/yœ/ (Dutch and German)
/ʏɪ/ (Dutch)

Consonants
Common:
Nasal: /m n ŋ/
Plosive: /p b t d k g/
Fricative: /f v s z ʃ x h/
Approximate: /l j/

Other Sounds
/w/ (English)
/θ ð/ (English)
/ʒ/ (English and German)
/ɣ/ (Dutch and Some Northern German Dialects)
/ɹ/ (English and Dutch)
/ʁ/ (German)
/ʀ/ (German and Dutch)
/X/ (German and Dutch)

[HinGambleGoth]

I have been thinking about a deep french-like orthography for the medieval germanic languages, you could fairly easily spell old norse and anglo-saxon in an archaic state like proto-norse.
Umlaut and other sound changes would be predictavle through pronounciation rules.

So dōmjan would be read as /dø:ma/ or /de:man/ or /touman/.

[Ælfwine]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkspraak

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[clawgrip]

Why would we need that when we already have Pan-Germanic logograms?

[Sḿtuval]

Considering that most West Germanic languages don't have /θ ð/ it probably wouldn't be a good idea to have those if you're aiming for an auxlang.

[Adarain]

Considering that most West Germanic languages don't have /θ ð/ it probably wouldn't be a good idea to have those if you're aiming for an auxlang.

If I understand correctly, the goal wasn't to make an auxlang, but rather a unifying deep orthography.

[clawgrip]

The OP says "Orthography or language" which are extremely different things, so it's kind of hard to tell what the goal is.

[Lambuzhao]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkspraak

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I see yer Folkspraak, and raise you Tutonish
https://books.google.com/books?id=sbM9A ... ee&f=false

[Sḿtuval]

If I understand correctly, the goal wasn't to make an auxlang, but rather a unifying deep orthography.

Maybe I misinterpreted it (I only saw the part that said "language"), but you'd expect a thread about a West Germanic orthography to show how the listed sounds are actually transcribed.