Old Shax

General information
Standard Shax is the standard version of the Shax language. It has based heavaly on French and Italian. It is a sandhi language. It is the official language of Shaxia. Shaxia is a country that exists in modern-day Provence-Alpes-Côte D'azure, Corse, Piemonte, and Lingueria.

Sentence Structure
SVO, SV

Verbs
All verbs need a subject pronoun. There is some colloquial leniency with -ar, and -are verbs since they conjugate perfectly to person.

Writing System
¹ C has its soft value (/ts/) before O, U, and Y. Hard (/k/) everywhere else

G has its soft value (/dʒ/) before O, U, and Y. Hard (/g/) everyhwere else

² E is /ə/ everywhere exept when marked or at the beginning or end of a word. E is always /ɛ/ before R

³ These consonants are silent at the end of a word (unless followed by an E [marked E's⁴ are extemp) when the following word starts with a consonant, but are pronounced when it starts with a vowel. E is always silent at the end of a word and when followed by one of these consonats; if the consonant following the E is alone then it is silent but if it is followed by another E then the previous E and the consonant is pronounced. If one of consonants is preceed by a marked E⁴ then it is pronounced

⁴(É, È, or Ê)

Verbs
4 types verbs

These verb "families" are also infinitives
 * -er
 * -ar
 * -are
 * Irregulars