Lalakhmet

General Information
Lalakhmet (also known as Proto-Lalakhi) is an a priori, proto- lang. Its descendents will speak in (constate for Nomidian) where Nomidian is spoken.

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

Alphabet

 * Nh nh, Ch ch - /ɲ/, /x/
 * Ph ph, Th th, Kh kh, Çh çh - /pʰ/, /θʰ/, /kʰ/, /tɕʰ/
 * Rv rv - /rʷ/
 * Dj dj - /dʑ/
 * Vowels


 * A a, Â â, Ą ą, Ą̂ ą̂ - /ɐ/, /ɒ:/, /ɐ̃/, /ɒ̃:/
 * Ä ä, Æ æ, Ą̈ ą̈, Æ̨ æ̨  - /ɛ/, /æ:/, /ɛ̃/, /æ̃:/
 * I i, Î î, Į į, Į̂ į̂ - /ɪ/, /i:/, /ɪ̃/, /ĩ:/
 * O o, Ô ô, Ǫ ǫ, Ǫ̂ ǫ̂ - /ʊ/, /o:/, /ʊ̃/, /õ:/
 * Ö ö, Œ œ, Ǫ̈ ǫ̈, Œ̨ œ̨ - /œ/, /ø:/,
 * E e, Ê ê, Ę ę, Ę̂ ę̂ - /ɛ/, /e:/, /ɛ̃/, /ɛ̃:/
 * U u, Û û, Ų ų, Ų̂ ų̂ - /ʊ/, /u:/, /ʊ̃/, /ũ:/
 * Ü ü, Uî uî, Ų̈ ų̈, Uį̂ uį̂ - /ʏ/, /y:/, /ʏ̃/, /ỹ:/

Sandhi
Certain consonants undergo a consonant mutation which have arrived from the earlier pronounciations of the language. A dental fricative excluding /s/ will fortify back to a plosive when preceding a palatal sound.

Allophony
Although there is no /t/ sound isolated, in certain consonant clusters, it appears which include {st ts ft ɕt lt}.

The /w/ sound is quite unstable in that it has various different forms. Intervocalically, it is /ʋʷ/. After a consonant, it varies between /ʋʷ/ and /w/. At the end of a syllable, it becomes /w/. In the ablaut, /rʷ/, and /l/ become /w/ in pronounciation, but this is viewed, again, as the same sound as /ʋʷ/.

Because of its earlier history as /t/, /d/, and /tʰ/, the current phonemes of /θ/, /ð/, and /θʰ/ when palatalized become /tɕ/, /dʑ/, and /tɕʰ/, and their geminate forms are /tt/, /dd/, and /ttʰ/.

Apophony
There is a functional vocalic and consonental apophony present which is used to differentiate a variety of morphological elements.


 * Vowel


 * Consonant

Nouns
Genders: masculine, feminine, neuter, inanimate.

Class I, -a
Contain overall inanimate nouns. It is characterized by -ä- and -æ-. Class one nouns include
 * yeşnä (in.) : table, hump, spot
 * âpä (in.) : carpet, rug, floor of a house
 * dœvä (in.) : soil the is capable of being farmed

Class II -o
Contain overall masculine nouns, characterized by -o- and -ô-. The partitive has an irregular palatalizing vowel ablaut. Class two nouns include

Class III -eig
Contains overall neuter nouns, characterized by -g- and -i-, featuring a palatalized consonantal ablaut in the partitive.

Class IV -ed
Contains overall masculine and feminine nouns, characterized by -d- and -i-, featuring an elongated consonantal ablaut in the partitive.

Class V -evl
Contains overall abstract nouns, charactarized, characterized by -l- and -û- / -ev-, featuring an elongated consonantal abaut in the partitive.

Class VI
This special class for verbal nouns is borrowed from the Class III declension system with the difference lying in what comes before the -g. Other grammatically information is indicated in the suffix before -g, such as tense and aspect.

Verbs
Tenses: present, present continuous, past, past continuous, future

Aspects: perfect, inchoative, terminative Voices: active, passive The passive voice is formed by putting the stem's last consonant in the palatalization ablaut.

1st Conjugation
Characterized by -a- with a regular labialized ablaut in the past tenses. The 1st conjugation typically has verbs pertaining to physical movement.

2nd Conjugation
Characterized by -ä- with a regular labialized ablaut in the past tenses. The 2nd conjugation typically has verbs pertaining to belief and thought.

3rd Conjugation
Characterized by -ü- with a regular labializing ablaut in the past tenses. The 3rd conjugation typically deals with verbs of thought, stationary action (like floating, pouring, moving [something], looking [at something], &c), and is the default conjugation of the causitive suffix, -fuôba.

The causitive suffix, -fuôba, is conjugated as a finite verb by removing the -uôba part and putting the corresponding suffix, and as a gerund and participle, the -a part is removed and replaced with the corresponding ending  ("I make speak" = sį barbarêfü ; "to make speak" = barbarêfuôba ; "making speak" = barbarêfuôbüchskig).

Adjectives
Declines to gender, plurality, case, comparison, and polarity.

Gender has regular suffixes put on the end of the adjectival suffix; depending on if that suffix ends in a consonant or not, the stem will change.
 * Masculine: -o / -yo
 * Feminine: -e / -ê
 * Neuter: -ei / -ig
 * Inanimate: -ä / -yä
 * Abstract : -eu / -vl

Regular
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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)