Old Shax

General Information
Heavy phonological changes.

Consonants
¹[ð̱] is an allophone of [ɹ]

Diphthongs

 * [ɐu̯] ÂU
 * [ɐɨ̯] ÂE
 * [eɨ̯] ÊI
 * [ou̯] ÔU

Sound Changes

 * all phonemes before I, E, and/or Y become palatalized if they hold a palatalized allophone (note: in this section: usually any time palatalization is mentioned then it is when a phoneme preceeds I, E, Y)
 * C becomes palatalized to [ɕ]
 * S becomes palatalized to [ɕ] but only before [j]/[i]
 * G becomes palatalized to [ʑ]
 * Z, or intervocalic/pre-glidal S, becomes palatalized to [ʑ]
 * L becomes palatalized to [j]
 * N becomes palatalized to [ɲ]
 * [w] becomes palatalized to [ɥ]
 * V[w]V > [v]
 * N is [ŋ] before a velar sound excluding [w]
 * all clusters that may become affricates become metathesized
 * all affricates become spirantized to their fricatives
 * phonemes before [n] or [m] become nasalized to which yeild the original nasal phoneme's elision except with a liason
 * original latin unvoiced plosives become voiced intervocalically unless a mandatory palatalization to which it will remain it's unvoiced palatalized allophone
 * [s] becomes [z] intervocalically (if there is a palatalization then the palatalized phoneme becomes voiced)
 * all geminated become degeminated (gemination is not allowed)
 * if there is ever haplology then the phonemes become assimilated with the second set of phonemes taking precedence, except if the first set has a long vowel then the first takes precedence, and the laxing of the second vowel if it is long (same with the exception) or if it goes against phonotactics, then the correct set takes precedence
 * initial velar must have an epenthesis of [l] before a vowel and a prothesis of [ɛ] excluding [w]
 * initial alveolar sounds must have a prothesis of [ɛ]
 * initial plosives become fricatives
 * [p] > [f]
 * [b] > [v]
 * [t] > [s]
 * [d] > [z]
 * [k] > [h]
 * [g] > [h]
 * all nasal sounds become [ɛ̃], for front vowels and [ɨ] except [æ], [ɜ̃], for low vowels, and [ɔ̃] for back vowels
 * there is an elision of all final consonants
 * all final vowels (and those affected by the above elision) are deleted unless they're long then they're shortened or is a monosyllable word in which it is kept
 * intervocalic [t] becomes debuccalized to [h] except if it's palatalized
 * intervocalic voiced plosives may be debuccalized; in monothongs, they're removed
 * Short vowel shift
 * [ɪ] > [i]
 * [ʊ] > [o]
 * [ɛ] > [ɐ]
 * [ɔ] > [u]
 * [a] > [ɑ]
 * [ʏ] > [ɨ]
 * Long vowel shift
 * [iː] > [i]
 * [iː]# > [ɛ]
 * [uː] > [u]
 * [eː] > [ɨ]
 * [oː] > [ɔ]
 * [ɑː] > [ɐ]
 * [yː] > [i]
 * Diphthongs (note: AE and OE are from Latin and have their below monothongization, but Æ and Œ are from Greek and are both [i] from iotification)
 * UI [ui̯] > UI [ɥi]
 * EI [ei̯] > EI [ɨ]
 * EU [eu̯] > IU [ju]
 * OE [oe̯~oi̯] > UE [ɥɨ]
 * OU [ou̯] > OU [u]
 * AE [ae̯~ai̯] > Î [ɨ]
 * AU [au̯] > AU [ɔ]
 * [ɾj], [lj] > [j]
 * [wj] > [ɥ]
 * [ɾ] becomes [ɹ~ð̱] in an unstressed intervocalic syllable or a haplologic second syllable
 * all final [e]'s and [ɛ]'s are silent, they indicate palatalization and must be used when a word ends in -qu (making it -que) unless marked with an acute (for loans)
 * all final glides must be preceeded by a vowel (the defult being [ɛ])
 * glides cannot be preceeded by a fricative that is non-palatal; if it is then the glide is removed and replaced with the phonetically closest diphthong except if it is followed by a palatal: then the glide is removed and is replaced by an [i] to which it is metathesized and made into [j]

Alphabet
The first letter is the standard pronounciation, the second is a pronounciation explaned in the sound changes.

Digraphs
Original latin digraphs are explaned above in the sound changes ¹ Final must be <-ill> preceeded by the vowel

Nouns
Nouns decline to case and the article shows gender and number.

1st Declination
Nouns ending in a consonant
 * Nominative -e
 * Oblique -on
 * Genitive -ed

2nd Declination
Nouns ending in a vowel
 * Nominative -e
 * Oblique -m
 * Genitive -d

3rd Declination
Irregular

1st Declination
Ends in a consonant

2nd Declination
Ends in a vowel

Lexicon
Note: this is a "course" based upon the duolingo [french] course

Lesson 1

 * 1) a Fâill [fɐj] = Girl
 * 2) o Fâu [fɐu̯] = Boy
 * 3) a Femen [fɛ̃mɛ̃] = Woman
 * 4) o Vi [vi] = Man
 * 5) Âser [ɐzɛɾ] = to Be

Lesson 2

 * 1) Âu [ɐu̯] = I
 * 2) Esu [ɛzu] = You (singular)
 * 3) a Malo [mɑlɔ] = Apple
 * 4) Rusiu [ɾuʑu]  = Red
 * 5) Cîlo [ɕɨlɔ] = Blue

Lesson 3

 * 1) o Farvol [fɑɾvɔl] = Child, Infant
 * 2) Cuitâr [kɥɨtɐɾ] = to Eat
 * 3) at Urangia [uɾɜ̃ʑa]  = Orange
 * 4) I [i] = He