Lalakhmet

General Information
Lalakhmet (also known as Proto-Lalakhi) is an a priori, proto- lang.

Proto-Lalakhi is an acient language spoken along the same period as Ancient Egyptian.

Phonology and Orthography

 * Consonants

There are 18 consonants all of which, barring approximants, can be geminate (written as a double letter, /mm/ > *mm). Though typically realized as unvoiced, plosives and affricates are realized as voiced in between vowels (except if geminate). Consonants are seperated in _ groups
 * the nāheta, nasal, series: m n


 * the pattātaə, solid, series: p t k
 * the hāpezataə, breathy, series: f θ ʂ χ ts t̺s̺
 * the flȫṣtaə, liquid, series: w ɫ r y
 * the āɛātaə, throatal, seriess: h ʕ
 * Vowels

There are 7 vowels which contrast frontness and hight (while roundness does not technically contrast, the rounded vowels in the chart are actual realizations). Long vowels are marked with a macron (ī ē ȫ ū ō ā). Note that there are no diphthongs, with each vowel, on its own, consisting of one half-mora, or full mora if it's a long vowel (see Phonotactics for more information), including the schwa sound /ə/.

A word can have either a high pitch, marked with acute accent, or low pitch, marked with an grave accent. Typically longer words can have a second pitch (*ťápanatahāzḕk, the freshness of fresh fallen snow, have a low pitch in the last mora, -zḕk). W ords where a vowel goes across frontness  changes pitch obligatorily and the pitch change goes in the opposite direction as the tone in the mora prior to the vowel in question. The first mora that has the different tone is realized as a "rising" (if low > high pitch) or "falling" (if high > low) pitch, however the remainder of the word keeps that high/low pitch. Functional words and cliques don't have any pitch. The accent marks are not necessarily always written down (such as the vowel markings in Arabic or Hebrew).
 * Stress and Morae

Lalakhmet is a mora-timed language with stress falling on the last syllable of a pure vowel (as in, stress cannot fall on /ə/, the schwa). A single mora is defined as: two, short-vowel, open syllables (*ťápanaə, snow, is split into two morae: ťápa-náə); a syllable with a long vowel (*ḵḕjḕ, a cook, is two morae: ḵḕ-jḕ); a short-vowel, open syllable and the start geminate consonant (*záttȫ̀, bone, is two morae: zát-tȫ̀); or a closed syllable, in which vowels are automatically elongated (*hā̀sníke, a weed, is two morae: hā̀s-níke).


 * Limitations


 * A content word cannot have "radical morae" (or half-morae that don't have a pair). This is typically resolved with the addition of the -ə- adfix (which has no real meaning other than resolving the mora limitations).
 * this -ə- adfix can only be placed in open syllables but cannot interrupt a full-mora set. Therefore, it can be palced at the front of a word (like the word for Lalakhmet, *əlalāḵmēt), at the very end of a word (like word for snow, *ťapanaə), in between full morae (  ****FINISH
 * Approximants are limited to being between vowels or following consonants
 * Two consonants of the same place of articulation (except approximants) cannot juxtapose each other, except the cluster /tr/
 * Closed syllables must have long vowels (except if they are formed by geminate consonants)
 * More than two long vowels can't be in adjacent morae

Verbs

 * Consonant Change

Indicative
The regular conjugation of a verb in the indicative. The -t- or -z- is the given consonant, but can be any of the consonants above.

Volative
The volative means "want that" or "desire that" and used in cohortative phrases such as "if only _" or "may _".

Potential
The potential (which also functions as a hypothetical mood) means "can", "able to", "possible to", or "could have _".

Necessitative
The necessitative means "need" or "required" or "have to".

Imperative
The imperative (which acts as a general hortative) means "let _", "may _", "do _", &c.

Causative
The causative means "make _", "cause _", "originate _", &c. *****ADD IN

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Ideas:
 * Adjectives with degrees of connotativeness (heinous, bad, neutral, good, wonderful) 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 (esp. with antipassive)