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)
 * 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] > [æ]
 * [ʏ] > [ɨ]
 * Long vowel shift
 * [iː] > [i]
 * [iː]# > [ɛ]
 * [uː] > [u]
 * [eː] > [ɨ]
 * [oː] > [ɔ]
 * [aː] > [ɐ]
 * [yː] > [i]
 * Diphthongs (note: they retain spelling; futher 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] > [ɥi]
 * EI [ei̯] > [ɨ]
 * EU [eu̯] > [ju]
 * OE [oe̯~oi̯] > [ɥɨ]
 * OU [ou̯] > [u]
 * AE [ae̯~ai̯] > [ɨ]
 * AU [au̯] > [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

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

Lesson 1

 * 1) a Fâill = Girl
 * 2) o Fâu = Boy
 * 3) a Femen = Woman
 * 4) o Vi = Man
 * 5) Âser = to Be

Lesson 2

 * 1) Âu = I
 * 2) Esu = You (singular)
 * 3) a Malo = Apple
 * 4) Ruseu = Red
 * 5) Caelo = Blue