Lalakhmet

General Information
Lalakhmet (also known as Proto-Lalakhi) is an a priori, proto- lang. Its descendents will speak in (constate for Nomidian) where Nomidian is spoken.

Consonants
Vowel
 * The lenis voiced plosives are voiced before liquids
 * /*ʀ/ is pronounced [ʁ̥~ʀ̥]
 * /*q/ is pronounced [ɢ̥~ɢ]

Phonotactics
C(L)V(C)(C) C - consonant | V - vowel | L - liquid
 * Nasals and glottals cannot be in a cluster
 * [s] cannot follow another consonant
 * [j] and [w] cannot come before another consonant
 * Liquids cannot follow consonants at the end of a syllable
 * Two alveolar consonants cannot be in a cluster

Noun
Nouns are made up of two parts: the root and the grammatical suffix. Each noun declines in one of the four paradigms; one for each gender.

Gender
There are four genders: masculine, feminine, abstract, and inanimate. Masculine and feminine pertain to an animate creature's (i.e. people and animals) biological gender. The abstract gender is put on anything that is "abstract" in nature (such as ideas, theories, philosophies, etc). The last gender, inanimate, is applied to, as the name of the gender, inanimate objects such as rocks, furniture, and water.

The respective genders have these theme vowels:
 * Masculine: *o
 * Feminine: *y
 * Abstract: *oi
 * Inanimate: *ei

Case
Lalakhmet is a ergative-absolutive language that includes three categories of casings: alignment, relationship, and movement. Alignment suffixes, such as the ergative or absolutive, show the relationship of the noun to the verb. Relationship suffixes like the genitive or the semblative are rarer cases which depict the relationship between two nouns. Movement cases, such as those found in Finnish, show the movement of the noun (including the inessive and ablative).

The latter most cases, movement cases, are somewhat agglutinative……

Plurality
There are three levels of the plural: the singular, the plural, and the partitive. The singular and plural function as in English. The partitive, however, has two parts: one is like that of French where the object being referred to is a part, hence part-itive, of the whole noun which is also achieved in English with the adjective some (i.e. some of the soup, some cake, some coffee). The second aspect is like a paucal where there is a small group of a greater noun (for example: "Can you pass me some of those water glasses" . "We went to see some of those houses down the road" . In both examples, the referred noun is a group of a larger group).

Masculine Paradigm
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Ideas:
 * Adjectives with degrees of connotativeness (heinous, bad, neutral, good, glorious) and voice (positive/negative, active/passive) with comparativeness made with another specifically declining adjective
 * Roots be at the base with verbs, noun, and adjectives being formed therefrom
 * Strong emphasis on reflexive/passive
 * Ergative-absolutive