Lalakhmet

General Information
This language is based on Arabic grammatically and phonologically-ish. Lalakhmet is a vernacular, a priori language spoken in Mauritania, the country where Shax spoken. It is official alongside Shax. The goal is for an "semanitlang."

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Consonant
Note that I used velar for uvular sounds as well because [χ] and [ʁ] are allophones of [x] and [ɣ] respectivally and [q] is viewed [kˤ] phonemically but is almost always articulted as [q] All consonants except [h] can be geminate (*) [ŋ~ɴ] is an allophone of [n] before a velar or uvular sound.

(**) geminate [l] and [l] before [ɑː] become [ɫ]

Vowel
Allowed diphthongs are [aɪ̯], [ɑʊ̯]

Abjad
Lalakhmet is writtem with

Semi-Adjad Letters and Romanization
Rom. = romanization; Is. = Isolated; In. = Initial; Md. = Medial; Fn. = Final

Diacritics and Alifs
Alif, ا, is used here because it has null value in Lalakhmet. This represents [æ]. The romanization is  This represents [e]. The romanization is  or  The represents [o]. The romanization  or </nowiki This makes a consonant geminite. This letter cannot go over ه. The romanization of geminate letters is that you write the letter twice. This means that the letter that it goes over doesn't have a vowel. Though, it it often ommited because it's redundent as a letter without a diacritic is also interpreted as having no vowel. These represent [ʔæ], [ʔe], and [ʔo] respectivally. Note that أ is just [ʔ] with a sukun over it. These represent [ʔɑː], [ʔiː], and [ʔuː] respectivally. Note that the sukun is omitted, usually. This represents [ɑː]. Its romanization is <Ā> or . Note that the sukun is omitted, usually. This represents [iː]. Its romanization is <Ī>, , or . Note that the sukun is omitted, usually. This represents [uː]. Its romanization is <Ū>, , or . Note that the sukun is omitted, usually. This represents [aɪ̯]. Its romanization is  or rarely  or  or even more rarely <Â>. This represents [ɑʊ̯]. Its romanization is  or rarely  or  or even more rarerly <Å>.
 * اَ
 * اِ
 * اُ
 * اّ
 * اْ
 * أ، ئ، ؤ
 * ءَاْ، ءِیْ، ءُوْ
 * ـَاْ
 * ـِیْ
 * ـُوْ

Verbs
Verbs work as most semitic languages do: they use a triliteral root system. Vowels and certain affixes are placed around the consonant base to make the word. Person and number are indicated through prefixes; tense/aspect, mood, voice, and form* are indicated through varying vowel and/or affix placement.

(*) Form is term in Lalakhmet and Arabic to describe miscellaneous conjugations: causative (caused by), reciprocal (with each other), associative (with), secondary (where the definition is different but closely related to the original verb), metamorphic (becoming or turning into the verb), and potential (to be able to do the verb).

Person and Number

Pro refers to the full pronoun form (which is redundent and not often used because it's already in the conjugation); Fix refers to the morphological affix from of the pronoun which attaches itself to the verb to express person and number which are combined: non-past forms as prefixes and past forms are suffixes. Note that the T and V represent the familiar and respectul forms of each pronoun (from T-V Distinction) Tense/aspect, mood, and voice

This is the true fusional morphology. This is where a collection of vowels determins the tense/aspect (imperfect, aorist, non-past), mood (indicative, subjunctive, optative, imperitive, jussive, exhortative), voice (active or passive), and formality (familiar, T, or formal, V). Note that the imperitive, jussive, and exhortative can only be in the non-past; the imperitive and jussive can only be in the 2nd person, and the exhortative can't be in the 1st person.

C¹, C², and C³ are the first, second, and third root consonant respecfivally. -P- is the person/number affix. -P`- is the person/number affix without its final vowel/consonant (ex: the jussive active familiar 2nd person singular f-ŗ-l root, فَعَلْتْ - faŗalt where the subjunctive is فَعَلْتِ - faŗalti)V represents the variable consonant found in the standard indicative forms*.

(*) The variable vowel refers to the vowel which must be known with the verb root. This vowel can only be the middle/final vowel and changes (note that the non-past and aorist share this variable vowel; the change occurs when going from non-past/aorist to imperfect): a > ī; ā > aw i > a; ī > u u > ay; ū > ī This same patter, called in Lalakhmet the v-umlaut (v for variable vowel), is used on C¹'s first vowel, when going from Subjunctive to Optative and Jussive to Exhortative. (this is pre-done)

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