Lalakhmet

General Information
Lalakhmet (also known as Proto-Lalakhi) is an a priori, proto- lang.

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

Vowel
Vowels differentiate by stress, indicated by an acute accent, nasality, indicated by a ogonek, and length, by a macron. {ʃ s r f n m l} may act as vowels, but only if they are the stressed syllable (and therefore taking an acute accent). Otherwise, a place-holder vowel, /i/, will be placed.

Phoneme Degration
Certain vowels change when they come out of the stress or a heavy syllable (which is defined here as a syllable similar to CVCC or Ć). /æ/ becomes /e/; /ʌ/ becomes /ɚ/; /ɑ/ becomes /o/. This process only goes one way, but it applies to nasal vowels and long vowels too. Similarly, certain consonants will change in certain conditions. The most often change is the palatalization of consonants before /j/ or the loss of labialization before rounded consonants in /rʷ/. When /x/ precedes /j/, it becomes /ʃʲ/ (or /xʃ/ when preceding a low vowel).

Nouns
Nouns decline to 3 genders (masculine, feminine, inanimate), 3 degrees of plurality (singular, partitive, plural), and 6 cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, stative prepositional, and dynamic prepositional). An important irregularity is that words whose roots end in -r, -s, or -rs will assimilate into suffixes that end in -r, -s, or -rs already removing the thematic vowel (examples are found here in the Masculine and Inanimate of the 3rd Declension -s section, the medial, determiner pronoun, and the first person, singular personal pronoun).

1st Declension -a
-a stem nouns are typically masculine and some inanimate with the thematic vowel being /a/.

2nd Declension -új
-új stem nouns are overall inanimate with the thematic vowel being /ü/. The nominative singular and plural change their stress leading to the reduction of some vowels (as seen here æ > e).

3rd Declension -s
-s stem nouns have no thematic vowel outside of the place-holder vowel /i/ which acts as a schwa, instead there is a thematic consonant which is /rs/ or /s/. The -s stem is distinguished into two subcategories of the masculine and inanimate and the feminine (the former of which has the sub-subcategories of consonant-final and vowel-final).

Masculine and Inanimate
Masculine/inanimate -s nouns, which can be refered to as the -rs stem, decline differently depending on the last letter of their stem (as shown below with sʲnʲî́rsand tʰʲū́ns); when the word ends in a vowel, the pattern (as the left one shows) will have -rs, and if it ends in a consonant (as the right one shows), it will have-s. (*) the suffixes merge with the stem because they end the same way

Feminine
Feminine -s nouns, unlike the masculine/inanimate ones, have the thematic consonant /s/ always.

4th Declension -j
This declension is exlusively feminine and is characterized by palatalized consonants and/or /j/.

Personal
Pronouns like I, me, you, she, it, him. (*) The genitive conjugation here is not used. Instead, the possessive pronouns, which agree to the other grammatical characteristics of its possessee, are (in the section below). The difference between

Possessive
Possessive pronouns indicate, as one would expect, possession. Nominal possessives are like mine, yours, hers, and adjectival ones are my, her, your, its.


 *  Nominal 


 * Adjectival

Determiner
Determiner pronouns are like this and that. Unlike Latin, the determiner is not synonymous with the third person pronoun. The determiner when used as a noun refers to an undefined or unknown person, whereas the personal pronoun refers to a person that was defined or identified either earlier in the conversation or by context. As an adjective,  they function as a kind of definite pronoun, marking a specific or special noun as opposed to the noun in general.


 * Proximal


 * Medial


 * Distal


 * Universal

Other Pronouns

 * Relative

Relative pronouns are like who, which, and that and introduce a dependent clause (these should not be confused with interrogative pronouns which are used as a subject to a question). These agree to the case, gender,
 * Interrogative

Interrogative pronouns are like who and which, but dissimilar to a relative pronoun, they ask a question as the subject of a clause (they are grammatically third person).

Verbs
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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)