Lalakhmet

General Information
Lalakhmet is an a priori lang. It is spoken by a rather large group in the old roman province of Mauritania. This is the historical dialect whence came the modern dialects now spoken in the country of (romlang for conword). The ethnic peoples who speak Lalakhmet were largely nomadic when the Romans conquered North Africa. Over time, the nomadic peoples advanced quickly with the technology and society of the Romans (and later ethnic romlang-ers).

Being nomadic, the orginal language was not written because it was only spoken. Not until recently (around the 1900's) had the language been officially due to the perception of inferiority to the romance romlang. Before that, the language had been written in with a pseudo-Arabic script. When the language was officially recognized, the society that handles the language created an official standardization and romanization of the language.

Because this is a reconstruction, a non-historical romanization will be used.

(Baghdad font: " word " )

Phonemes and Ortho
Note that Palatal is used to mean palatal and post-alveolar to conserve space. (*) It is always a true trill. {m n ɲ f ʃ ʒ ʎ̝̊ r j} can be geminate.

Noun Declension
Introduction

Lalakhmet declines nouns to grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neuter, omninous, and glorious), number (singular, partative, mass, and plural), and case (nominative, accusative, lative, simple adpositional, and complex adpositional).

Declensions follow a general pattern in terms of where affixes go: NUM- Root -CASE/GEN. The number prefix head the noun whereas case and gender (mix due to declension classes seperating a lot to gender) are suffixes. The root can be made masculine, feminine, or neuter by putting the root into a certain declension much like Latin.

Gender

There are five genders, masculine, feminine, neuter, omninous, and glorious. Masculine describes sentient being that are of the male gender. Feminine does the same but for the female gender. Neuter is similar, but it applies to unsentient objects, plants, and mass groups of a mixed gender. Ominous and glorious split from the previous three: ominous describes ideas that are percieved as dark, taboo, malicious, etc; glarious does the same but for ideas that are percieved as happy, inspiring, good, light, etc. Like with gender, one could take the root word and apply it to another declension to change the connotation. Colloquially, it could be attached to the neuter gender to avoid attaching connotations to the word or phrase being said.

Number

There are four numbers: singular, partative, mass, and plural. Singular describes one single object. Partative describes objects that are either less than one (such as 1/2) and/or objects that are a part of a greater, complete object. Mass describes objects that are being talked about in general: not relating to or specifying a specific object. This is used most oftenly with neuter nouns. Plural nouns talk about a specific group of more than one objects.

Case

There are five cases: nominative, accusative, lative, and the simple/complex adpositionals.

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