Old Shax

General Information
This is a Romance Language spoken in the country of Shaxió. Shaxió is a country that contains real modern day Ukrainian regions of Crimea, Sevastopol, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa, and the country of Moldova. It has Ukrainian and Romanian as minority languages, but only Shax and Russian are official languages (Russian must learned as a second language; it is used to facilitate communication between the non-Shax populace). Shax has heavy influence from Russian, as Russian is the "cool, modern language". It is important to note that the populace here went through a period of heavy emphasis on education, particularly on Classical Latin and Greek; from this the Shax language emerged more from the Latin language, retaining the Neuter gender, and it contains more agglutination from Greek.

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Sound Changes
In order. Antiquity Latin > Vulgar Latin > Eastern Romance > Daco-Romance > Slavo-Romance > Proto-Shax > Shax

Vulgar Latin
note: C = consonant, V = vowel, L = liquid, ´ = stressed vowel, ` = unstressed vowel

Vowels
ɛ > ɛ

eː > e

ɪ > e

iː > i

ɔ > ɔ

oː > o

ʊ > o

uː > u

a > a

aː > a

ʏ > ɪ

yː > i

Diphthongs
ɑe̯ > ɛ

oe̯ > e

au̯ > ɔ

ou̯ > u

Consonants
h > ∅

w > β

b > β/V, L_V, L

m, n > ∅/_#

n > ∅/_(f, v, s, z)

pʰ > f

tʰ > θ

kʰ > x

Semi-Vowels
(e, i) > j/_V

u > w/_V

Lexicon

 * Addition of non-Classic vocabulary from Vulgar Latin

Palatalization

 * k > tʃ/_(i, e, ɪ)
 * g > dʒ/_(i, e, ɪ)

Consonants

 * Plosives remained voiceless intervocalically

Lexicon

 * Greek lexical influence is found in legal and governence, medicine, and education.
 * Mongolic/Turkic lexical is found in war, descriptions of savagery, and profanity.
 * Addition of common words, from Vulgar Latin and Slavic languages, and proper words, from Classic Latin and Greek.

Vowels

 * ɛ > ɛ
 * ɛ́ > je
 * e > e
 * e > ə/(b, p, m)_
 * ɔ > ɔ
 * o > ɔ
 * ò > u
 * i > i
 * ɪ > e
 * u > u
 * a > a
 * à > ə
 * ə > e/(tʃ, dʒ, j)_

Consonants
Slavo-Romance
 * Labiovelars
 * kʷ > k/(i, e)_ > tʃ
 * gʷ > g/(i, e)_ > dʒ
 * kʷ > k
 * gʷ > g
 * k, g > p, b/ə
 * velar > bilabial/alveolar plosive_
 * Finals
 * m, n, s, z > ∅/_#
 * t, d > n/_#
 * p, b > m/_#
 * k, g > ŋ/_#
 * l > j/_#
 * l > r/V_V
 * Palatalization
 * s > ʃ/_(i, e)
 * z > ʒ/_(i, e)
 * t > ts/_(i, e)
 * d > dz/_(i, e)
 * k > tʃ/_(i, e)
 * g > dʒ/_(i, e)
 * l > ʎ/_(i, e)

Vowel

 * ɛ > ɛ̝
 * è > ɪ
 * é > ɨ
 * i > i
 * ɔ > ɔ̝
 * ú > u
 * ù > ʊ
 * u > ju/(v, n, d)_
 * a > a
 * ə > ɨ/(m, n, t, l, j)_
 * ə > ∅

Consonant

 * Final devoicing
 * j > ◌ʲ/_(i, ɪ, ɨ)

Lexicon

 * Major addition of Russo-Ukrainian vocabulary. This addition goes mainly to common words and food.

Vowel
No Change

Consonant

 * Depalatalization of of phonemes
 * Palatalization
 * t > ts/(i, ɪ, ɨ)_
 * d > dz/(i, ɪ, ɨ)_
 * s > ʃ/(i, ɪ, ɨ)_
 * z > ʒ/(i, ɪ, ɨ)_
 * k > tʃ/(i, ɪ, ɨ)_
 * g > dʒ/(i, ɪ, ɨ)_
 * n > ɲ/(i, ɪ, ɨ)_
 * l > ʎ/(i, ɪ, ɨ)_
 * ʎ > j
 * simplification of affricates to fricatives except [t͡s]

Vowel

 * ò > oø̯/_(m, n, t, d)#
 * ɛ̝̀ > eɨ̟̯/_(m, n, t, d)#
 * à > aə̯/_(m, p, t)#

Consonant

 * Removal of all labialization
 * initial voiceless plosive lenition
 * p > f
 * t > θ
 * k > x
 * Voiced intervocalic lenition
 * b > v
 * d > ð
 * g > ɣ
 * t, g > h/_#
 * d > z/_#
 * x > h/#_, _#