Old Shax

General Information
It's a romance language with Syriac/Aramaic influences. It is the official language of the Republic of Šuraa. It, through colonistic conquests, took Egypt, Eastern Libya (they split it with France, Šuraa and France worked together to take it from Italy, and shared Tripoli; albeit they fought over it and Šuraa lost it to France who then, graciously, gave Šuraa 2 ports to maintain good relations), and the Mersin, Adana, and Hatay regions of  modern day Turkey; Šuraa consists of Syria and Lebanon (the old Roman provinces of Syria-Cœle and Osrhœna).

Phonotactics
(C)(C)VC(C)(V)(C)(C)(C)(V)(C) Words with final consonants can only end in -M, -N, or -C

Liquids

 * After [r~ɾ] or [l] there cannot be a liquid
 * Liquid cannot preceed consonants except for [ʔ~q]
 * exception: [j] may come before [l], [t], or [ʔ]
 * A semi-vowel must have a compatable (⇩) vowel preceeding or following it.
 * [j] cannot preceed [ɪ~i~iː]; [w] cannot preceed [ʊ~u~uː]
 * Semi-Vowels cannot follow plosives

Sound Changes & Rules
Sound changes from original Latin
 * 1) consonantal V ([w]) in Latin becomes [v] except when it comes after a consonant and before a vowel
 * 2) Short Vowels:
 * 3) [a] > [e]
 * 4) [e] > [ɪ]
 * 5) [o] > [ʊ]
 * 6) [ɪ] > [i]
 * 7) [ʊ] > [u]
 * 8) Long Vowels:
 * 9) [ɑ] > [a]
 * 10) [ɛ] > [e]
 * 11) [ɔ] > [o]
 * 12) [i] > [ɪ]
 * 13) [u] > [ʊ]
 * 14) Final [s] is always deleted
 * 15) Final [l] is deleted after [ʊ], [u], [o], [ɔ]
 * 16) Final [e] and [ɛ] are deleted after a consonant and the QU ligature
 * 17) Final [t] is deleted
 * 18) Final [ɑi̯] (-ae, -æ) becomes [iː]
 * 19) Liquid that break Shax liquid rules are deleted
 * 20) Final and intervocal [t] > [θ], [d] > [ð], [k] > [x~χ], [g] > [ɣ~ʁ], [p] > [f], and [b] > [v] except the final form is the hard form (plosive) when the original Latin had a E that was deleted. It will usually be marked with a comma ( ◌' )
 * 21) Initial [s] becomes [ʃ]; [s]+semi-vowel becomes [ʃ] with the removal of the semi-vowel
 * 22) If the word doesn't end in a vowel then these are the conditions
 * 23) ends in -N or -M: leave alone
 * 24) ends in -QU: -C
 * 25) ends in -S: remove
 * 26) ends in an alveolar sound: -AA, -UU (<-- if the letter is L or R)
 * 27) ends in a plosive other than alveolar: remove the plosive and add -YAA
 * 28) short vowel
 * 29) front: -N
 * 30) back: -M

Alphabet
~Note: the letters T, D, K, G, P, and B are their intervocalic sounds when finals except when the original Latin word ended in E ~Single Q is always from semitic loans, never from Latin; vice versa is that QU is only from Latin and never from semitic loans ~X = C+S or K+S ¹- only for names and loans from other langs.

1st
Masculine nouns ending in -AA or -UU ² Shorten preceeding vowel

2nd
Feminine nouns ending in -II or -EE

3rd
Nouns ending in -N or -M

4th
Nouns ending in -C ¹ Replace -C with -X

5th
Irregular

1st
Normal regular adjective ¹

2nd
Ends in -C; replace -C with -Š

3rd
Ends in -YAA ¹Shorten preceeding vowel

²Remove the AA from -YAA; becomes word-ynaa)

4th
Irregular

Word Order
This is a VSO (Verb-Subject-Object) langauge.

Modifiers, being head final, go before the word being modified.

Adpositions
Adpositional phrases go in the suspected order. Adpositions arn't declined and they also have their own seperate words rather than being affixes.