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There are many French morphemes that became productive in Dutch, like -aard (< -ard), -ier, -ij (<ie). But are those Old French morphemes, or later ones? It is well known Dutch has been influenced by French, which makes sense as they share a language border, but I'm not too sure this is Old French ...

It may help to listen to a few example words in Swedish or Norwegian, both languages that are closely related to English, but preserved gemination, which means that you can hear the geminates in related words. Here you have stopp, which is English "stop" with geminate-p.

for Dutch, there are many Old-French influences That would be strange, as Old French is influenced quite a bit by Old Frankish, itself an ancestor of Dutch. You are claiming the influence extended the other way as well? It is possible that they developed some new features together, yes. Language co...

Those are rather bold statements, that require some proof. I personally have never heard of non-germanic substrates in Dutch or west germanic. There is a claim that the Germanic languages were influenced by a non-IE language, see Germanic substrate hypothesis ; for Dutch, there many Old-French infl...

: /p pʲ tʰ tʲʰ t tʲ kʲʰ kʲ kʰ k qʰ/ <b bi t ti d di ky k g c> /f fʲ θ θʲ s sʲ h hʲ/ <f fi z zi s si h hi> /m mʲ n ɲ r j ɮ ɮʲ/ <m mi n ni r j l li> /ɛ ɔ i ɨ u/ + length <ö o y ü u> + <ő, ó, ý, ű, ú> /a e/ + length <a e> + </á é> /mast kʰɔːpɮkʲʰɔk. qʰefkʰn taːsakn. qʰefkʰf kʲɨːk tʰ kaːnkʲiɲf fɔkʰf θʲ...

Thanks Plusquamperfekt, this is interesting.
Now I am curious, how would future tenses be expressed in this language? Are both aspects used for the future tense, or only one?

Armenian might be interesting for you too, as this is a language very often acquired in two language environments (Armenian diaspora), and it is surprisingly agglutinating for an IE-language. I haven't read articles about this myself yet, but a quick Google scan shows that there is some material ava...

My father's family is from Texel, and my family taught me the dialect of that island. However, in normal life I speak Dutch with a rather neutral accent, I can switch to dialect when needed. That's fun, I didn't know that island had its own dialect and/or that it has been preserved to this day. My ...

I am born and raised in the Netherlands, Dutch is my mother tongue. My father's family is from Texel, and my family taught me the dialect of that island. However, in normal life I speak Dutch with a rather neutral accent, I can switch to dialect when needed. I live in Alkmaar (or Oudorp, a former vi...

The last word, /uaǀa/, does have a click /ǀ/, right? Easily confused with /l/, but apparently this language does not have /l/, only /l̪/ and /l̠/.

I like digraphs and I like to make the romanization to some extent systematic, so this is my first try: /m n̪ n̠ ɲ ŋ p t̪ t̠ c k ɹ̪ ɹ̠ j w l̪ l̠ / <nb nd nq nc ng b d q c g r z y w l j> /ᵑʘ ᵑǀ ᵑǃ ᵑǂ ᵑǁ ʘ ǀ ǃ ǂ ᵑǁ / <np nt nh nx nk p t h x k> /i u a/ <i u a> This makes: b d q c g p t h x k nb nd nq n...

Great topic, great idea!
I created a group of related languages myself, with a Proto-Language as well, though not "re"constructed in detail; this topic however works the other way round, which is even more interesting.