Old Shax

General information
Standard Shax is the standard version of the Shax language. It has based heavaly on French and Italian. It is a sandhi language. It is the official language of Shaxia. Shaxia is a country that exists in modern-day Provence-Alpes-Côte D'azure, Corse, Piemonte, and Lingueria.

Sentence Structure
SVO, SV

Verbs
All verbs need a subject pronoun.

Stress
When there are 3+ vowels it is the second to last vowel.

When there are 2 unmarked vowels then they're both unstressed. When there is 1 unmarked vowel then it is stressed.

Sandhi
When one of these words (qe, qi, se, me, te, le, la, nue, vue, lue, lua) is in front a vowel (including H) then it's vowel mixes with the preceeding vowel (ex: Ìo t'amo). Semi-vowels do not count.

Writing System
¹ C has its hard value (/k/) before O, U, and Y. Soft (/ts/) everywhere else

G has its hard value (/g/) before O, U, and Y. Soft (/dʒ/) everyhwere else

² E is /-/ everywhere exept when marked or at the beginning or end of a word. E is always /ɛ/ before R

Diacritical Marks
¹ Can be placed only on vowels. "Opens" vowel; â, ä = /a/; âe, äe (æ̂, æ̈) = /ɛi̯/; ê, ë = /ɛ/; î, ï = /i/, ô, ö = /ɔ/; ôe, öe (œ̂, œ̈) = /œ/; û, ü = /u/.

Conjugation
Verbs conjugate to Tenses in each mood: Indicative: present, past, imperfect, future, present perfect, past perfect, pluperfect, past future
 * Tense (present, past, imperfect, future)
 * Mood (indicative, imperitive, subjunctive, and conditional)
 * Person (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
 * Number (singular, plural)
 * Voice (active, passive)
 * Aspect (perfective, not perfective)

Subjunctive: present, past, imperfect, future

Conditional: present, 1st past, 2nd past

Imperitive: present

Only the indicative mood has the particle-gerund

Shorthand
Avuar = av.

Êtuar = êt.

Present Participle = prp

Past Participle = ptp

Future Participle = fp

Present = pr

Past = pt

Imperfect = ip

Future = ft

Subjunctive = sbj.

Conditional = cdt.

Verb families & Conjugation
Used with foreign, and perfectly regular verbs.
 * -er

Used with verbs that can be only conjugated in the 3rd person singular.
 * -ór

Used with any verb. Only irregular verbs.
 * -are
 * -uar

-er Conjugation
ex: manger

Note: if a an O, U, or Y follows a G when conjugating an -er verb always put an Ȅ after it to keep the /dʒ/ sound

Subjunctive
Always put QE before the subject pronoun

-ó Conjugation
ex: fallór

Indicative
¹ You need to add pronomial particle in front to indication to whom you're speaking

Subjunctive
Always put QE before the subject pronoun

-are Conjugation
ex: amare

Pronomial Particle
Indicates where the verb is directed (Ìo t'amo = I like/love you). When the pronomial particle is the same it indicates a reflexive verb (Ìo m'amo = I like/love myself).

Ìo (1st person singular) --> me

Tu (2nd person singular) --> te

Il / Lá (3rd person singular) --> le / la

Nos (1st person plural) --> nue

Vos (2nd person plural) --> vue

Is / Lás (3rd person plural) --> lue / lua