Old Shax

General Information
This is the long lost North African romance language. It manifested in the Maghreb: specifically in modern-day Morocco, the Roman Empire's Mauritania. The East Roman Empire's side of North Africa was influenced by Greek and gave birth to coptic and other such languages.

("wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" <- for collapsible tables)

Vowel
All vowels can be nasal

Stress
Stress falls on primarily on the closed syllable or a pre-rhotic syllable; if there isn't one of those conditions, the stress falls on the penultimate. Note that the stress in never on the ultimate syllable (disregarding the closed syllable preference) unless it is a open syllable followed by a closed syllable in a two syllable word where stress would always fall of the ultimate. Stress never falls on [ɪ], [ə], and [o] and can only fall on [i], [ɛ], [u], and [a].

Sandhi
There is a liaison where final consonants are only pronounced if the following word has a vowel (ex: iziz ax [ˈiðɪð ˈaʃ] vs. iziz pax [ˈiðɪ ˈpaʃ]). The last vowel is removed and the words is merged with the second if both words start and end with a vowel (ex: izi ax > iz'ax [iðˈaʃ] vs. iziz ax [ˈiðɪð ˈaʃ]). This system is like French.

Alphabet

 * I and Y are [j] before another vowel
 * U is [w] before another vowel
 * B, D, G, S, X, and Z are [β], [ð], [ɣ], [z], [ʒ], and [ð] respectivally intervocalically
 * T and D are [tʃ] and [dʒ] respectivally before I
 * K and W are for loans and Arabic words
 * A, E, I, and U take their stressed forms, [a], [ɛ], [i], and [u], in accordance with the stress rules of Shax

Multigraphs

 * Tt and Dd are for when TI or DI aren't [tʃ] or [dʒ]
 * Ph, Th, and Ch are for greek loans
 * Nn and Mm are for when [n] and [m] are pronounced and the preceding vowel isn't nasal
 * The V in Vn/Vm represent any given vowel

Diacritics

 * The acute is for alternate stress and/or for homographs

Grammatical Changes
Nouns were regularized in Mauritainian Romance. Though the nominative stayed the same, the declensions changed.
 * masculine 1st > 3rd
 * neuter 1st > 2nd
 * masculine 2nd > 3rd (exceptions)
 * feminine 2nd > 1st
 * 2nd ending in -er > 3rd
 * feminine 3rd > 1st
 * neuter 3rd > 2nd
 * 4th > 2nd
 * 5th > 5th

Feminine
selua [ˈsɛlw(ə)] - forest

Masculine
luf [ˈlu(f/v)] - wolf

Neuter
saxem [ˈsaʒə̃] - rock

Masculine
paz [ˈpa(θ/ð)] - father

Definite
The definite article is taken from the latin word hīc, for proximal, and ille, for medial-distal.

Indefinite
The indefinite is taken from the latin word ūnus, for proximal, and is, for medial-distal.

Zero
The zero article in Shax corresponds to the partative article.

Adjectives
Adjectives decline with their noun. They take on the same endings as the noun they're describing

Verbs
Full article here.