Old Shax

General Information
This is a Romance Language spoken in the country of Shaxió. Shaxió is a country that contains real modern day Ukrainian regions of Crimea, Sevastopol, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa, and the country of Moldova. It has Ukrainian and Romanian as minority languages, but only Shax and Russian are official languages (Russian must learned as a second language; it is used to facilitate communication between the non-Shax populace). Shax has heavy influence from Russian, as Russian is the "cool, modern language". It is important to note that the populace here went through a period of heavy emphasis on education, particularly on Classical Latin and Greek; from this the Shax language emerged more from the Latin language, retaining the Neuter gender.

Sound Changes
In order. Antiquity Latin > Vulgar Latin > Neo-Classical > Russo-Italic > Shax.
 * Vulgar Latin Changes
 * 1st Vowel Change
 * [ɛ] > [ɛ]
 * [eː] > [e]
 * [ɔ] > [ɔ]
 * [oː] > [o]
 * [ɪ] > [e]
 * [iː] > [i]
 * [ʊ] > [o]
 * [uː] > [u]
 * [a] > [a]
 * [ɑː] > [a]
 * [ɑe̯] > [ɛ]
 * [oe̯] > [e]
 * Consonant Changes
 * n > ∅/_(f, v, s)
 * h > ∅
 * w > β/V_V
 * m > ∅/_#
 * (e, i) > j/_V
 * (u) > w/_V​
 * 1st Palatalization
 * ​[k] > [tʃ]
 * [g] > [dʒ]
 * n > ɲ
 * Simplification of consonant clusters
 * [kt] > [tt] > [s]
 * [mn] > [m]
 * [kʷ] > [k]
 * [zː] > [z]
 * [ŋn] > [ɲ]
 * Lenition
 * [pʰ] > [f]
 * [tʰ] > [θ]
 * [kʰ] > [x~χ]
 * s > z/V_V
 * Neo-Classic Changes
 * Re-elongation of phonemes
 * Addition of Classic Latin Words into the vocabulary in addition to the Vulgar Latin base
 * These words won't have gone through the above sound changes; they will be adopted as their standard nominative or infinitive form, then conjugated/declined appropiatly.
 * Sounds adopted from Latin into Neo-Classic Shax retain the [kʷ] sound, although written as 
 * Rebirth of geminate Z ([z] > [zː])
 * [ɲ] > [ŋ] (except before [i] or [e])
 * devoicing of intervalic fricatives
 * Russo-Italic Changes
 * β > v
 * All labialized plosives, excluding [bʷ], become [kʷ]
 * All labialized fricatives become [xʷ]
 * 2nd Vowel Change
 * [ɛ] > [ɛ]
 * [e] > [ɪ]
 * [ɔ] > [ɔ]
 * [o] > [u]
 * [i] > [i]
 * [u] > [u]
 * [a] > [ɑ]/_(l, r, f, v)
 * [a] > [ə]/_(m, n, t, s)
 * [a] > [a]
 * [eː] > [eɪ̯̈]
 * [oː] > [oʊ̯̈]
 * [iː] > [ˈi]
 * [uː] > [ˈu]
 * [aː] > [ɑɐ̯]
 * Introduction of Russo-Ukrainian vocabulary into the language. Note: These will go through Russo-Italic > Shax vowel changes as well
 * Removal of some Classic Latin vocabulary overrided by the Russo-Italic vocab.
 * 2nd Palatalization
 * t > ts
 * d > d̥ > ts
 * Finals
 * i > ∅/_#
 * ˈi > ɪ/_#
 * Final devoicing of certain phonemes
 * v > f
 * z > s
 * d > t
 * g > ŋ/_#
 * b > m/_#
 * Shax Changes
 * 3rd Vowel Change
 * [ɛ] > [ɛ]
 * [ɔ] > [ɔ]
 * [ɪ] > [ɨ]
 * [i] > [i]
 * [u] > [u]
 * [ɑ] > [ɐ]
 * [a] > [a]
 * [ə] > ∅
 * [ˈi] > [ˈi]
 * [ˈu] > [ˈu]
 * [ɑɐ̯] > [ɐ]
 * [ɑɐ̯] > [ˈa] (if not otherwise done by [ˈi] or [ˈu])
 * [eɪ̯̈] > [ɨ]
 * [oʊ̯̈] > [ɤ]
 * Diphthong Simplification
 * [au] > [ɔ]
 * [ou] > [u]
 * Palatalization before [ɤ] and [ɨ]
 * k > tʃ
 * g > dʒ
 * t > ts
 * d > d̥ > ts
 * (n, ŋ, l) > j
 * (tʃ, dʒ) > (ʃ, ʒ)
 * ks > ps/#V_
 * simplification of consonant clusters with fricatives to fricatives (except [ks] of )
 * s > z/V_V
 * Final Values
 * s > ∅/_#
 * n¹ > ∅/_#
 * ¹ nː > ɲ
 * l > j/_#
 * t > s/_#
 * Gemination simplified
 * (pː, tː, kː) > (f, s, x)
 * lː > j
 * nː > ɲ
 * zː > ts
 * (rest are simplified to non-geminate phonemes)
 * Initial Lenition
 * p > f/#_
 * t > θ/#_
 * k > x/#_

Alphabet
¹ Palatalized value (C = [ʃ], G = [ʒ], T = [ts], D = [ts])

Other Orthography
¹ From palatalized versions (during the Russo-Italic period)

² Used in final [ts]'s, a seperate value, etc

³ From previously geminate [z]