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, Ã ã, Âã âã - /ɐ/, /ɒ:/, /ɐ̃/, /ɒ̃:/
 * Ä ä, Æ æ, Äã äã, Æ̃ æ̃  - /ɛ/, /æ:/, /ɛ̃/, /æ̃:/
 * I i, Î î, Ĩ ĩ, Îĩ îĩ - /ɪ/, /i:/, /ɪ̃/, /ĩ:/
 * O o, Ô ô, Õ õ, Ôõ ôõ - /ʊ/, /o:/, /ʊ̃/, /õ:/
 * Ö ö, Œ œ, Öõ öõ, Œ̃ œ̃ - /œ/, /ø:/,
 * E e, Ê ê, Ẽ ẽ, Êẽ êẽ - /ɛ/, /e:/, /ɛ̃/, /ɛ̃:/
 * U u, Û û, Ũ ũ, Ûũ ûũ - /ʊ/, /u:/, /ʊ̃/, /ũ:/
 * Ü ü, Uî uî, Üũ üũ, Ũî ũî - /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 -g
Contains overall neuter nouns, characterized by -g- / -dj- and -i-, featuring a palatalized consonantal ablaut in the partitive.

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

Class V
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" = sĩ barbarêfü ; "to make speak" = barbarêfuôba ; "making speak" = barbarêfuôbüchskig).

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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)