Doggerlish is a West Germanic language, precisely within the North Sea Germanic subgroup, meaning it is a close cousin of languages like English and Frisian, the latter of which had the most significant role in the development of the Doggerlish language. It is spoken within the Northwestern European island and eponymous country known as Doggerland, and has significant loanwords from other Indo-European languages such as Dunonic (Doggerland's only extant Celtic language) and Lustric (the only Romance language spoken on Doggerland; originally a dialect of Vulgar Latin like today's Romance languages), as well as very old non-Indo-European languages such as the Vasconic languages of Etzkoic, Dunaldish, and the now-extinct Gaeltzardic. Doggerland's oldest extant language, Vänna, also played a significant role in the development of the Doggerlish language's earliest attested form, Old Doggerlish.
Doggerlish is the only agglutinative language in the Indo-European language family as a whole and the only one in the Germanic subfamily, and this suggested influence from Vänna and the Vasconic languages (the aboriginal, non-Indo-European languages of Doggerland that served as substrates for later Indo-European languages like Dunonic and Doggerlish).
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