Modern Shax

General Information
Modern Shax is a direct descendent of Old Shax. It has experienced heavy regularization of forms and a significant change in pronounciation of consonants (the reverse of Old French to Modern French in which vowels were mainly changed). Many English loans and a slight change in syntax have occured.

Sound Changes are at the bottom of the page

Sound Changes
V - vowel; C - consonant; acute accent - stressed; grave accent - unstressed; tilde - nasal vowel; O - open syllable; Ɵ - closed syllable; Ø - syllable; M – mono or bisyllabic words; L - liquid (j, l, r); P - plosive; D - voiced consonant (b, d, g, l, β, r); J - palatals (i, e, j); L₂ - [r] and [l]; F - fricative

All changes apply to nasal vowels unless otherwise stated Old Shax > Modern Shax P > ∅/_#!sp, sk, Vt l > w/V_L!l:, _# ɸ > h/#_ s > z/V_V!_j w > β!C_ w > ∅/C_; ʍ > h!V_V > ∅ kt > ʃt Vn > Ṽ/_C!_(w, j, ʍ, n, m, ŋ) ĩ > ẽ p, t, k > b, d, g/V_V/L₂, L₂/V_V; b, d, g > β, ð, ɣ/V_V/L₂, L₂/V_V sj, tj, dj, lj > ʃ, t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ, jː Loss of an intertonic vowel à, ɛ̀, ɔ̀> ɐ/Ò; #_C; C_# ɛ > e/O; ɔ > o/O s > ʃ/_(i, o); sp, sk > ʃ/_# a > æ/Ɵ!ã (ɛ, e > jɛ/M; ɔ, o > jɔ/M)!N_ r > z/_#; r > d͡z/V_V V̀ > ∅/L_P β > b/#_ k > g/#_ All geminates other than post-stressed syllable, intervocalic gemination is simplified ts > s/_# kj > tj/_V; gj > dj/_V l > j/_C!J_, _d ɣJ > ʝ jː, jz, zj > ʝ; gi > ʝi è > i/#_, Ɵ ɔ > o/Ɵ_F β, ð, ɣ > ∅/V_V (syllables still seperate) p, t, k > b, d, g/_#; β, ð, ɣ > w, ∅, j/_#, V_V b, d, g > β, ð, ɣ/_# h > ∅/C_ ã > æ̃; õ > ɔ̃; ũ > jũ; ẽ > ɛ̃ ––Based on nature of the connotation of the word, it's form will be standardized based on either nominative or base for all declensions/conjugations except with very common words