Old Shax

General Information
This is the long lost North African romance language. It manifested in the Maghreb: specifically in modern-day Morocco, the Roman Empire's Mauritania. The East Roman Empire's side of North Africa was influenced by Greek and gave birth to coptic and other such languages.

("wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" <- for collapsible tables)

Stress
Shax follows antiquity Latin's stress rules. This means most Shax words fall on the penultima.

Alphabet

 * A - [ə] in unstressed syllables, finally, and stand-alone; A - [a] elsewhere
 * I - [ɨ] in stressed closed syllables and finally; I - [ɪ] in unstressed open syllables, initially, and stand-alone; I - [i] in stressed open syllables; I - [j] before another vowel
 * U - [ɵ] in stressed closed syllables; U - [ʊ] in unstressed open syllables, initially, finally, and stand-alone; U - [u] in stressed open syllables; U - [w] before another vowel
 * E - [e] in unstressed open syllables or finally
 * D - [dʒ] before I, E, or Y
 * T - [tʃ] before I, E, or Y
 * X - [ks] finally, initially, and before or after voiceless consonants and [gz] intervocalically and before or after voiced consonants

Multigraphs

 * Xr is [kʃ] after or before voiceless consonants and [gʒ] between vowels or before or after voiced consonants

Diacritics

 * Ï and Ü are used before a vowel to indicate that I isn't [j] and U isn't [w]. Their pronounciation rules follow those of normal I and U

Grammatical Changes
Nouns were regularized in Mauritainian Romance. Though the nominative stayed the same, the declensions changed.
 * masculine 1st > 3rd
 * neuter 1st > 2nd
 * masculine 2nd > 3rd (exceptions)
 * feminine 2nd > 1st
 * 2nd ending in -er > 3rd
 * feminine 3rd > 1st
 * neuter 3rd > 2nd
 * 4th > 2nd
 * 5th > 5th

Feminine
selua [ˈsɛlwə] - forest

Masculine
lupu [ˈlupu] - wolf

Neuter
saxu [ˈsagzu] - rock

Masculine
patj [ˈpatʃ] - father

Definite
The definite article is taken from the latin word hīc, for proximal, and ille, for medial-distal.

Indefinite
The indefinite is taken from the latin word ūnus, for proximal, and is, for medial-distal.

Zero
The zero article in Shax corresponds to the partative article.

Adjectives
Adjectives decline with their noun. They take on the same endings as the noun they're describing

Verbs
Full article here.