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.

Alphabet

 * 1) T becomes [t͡ʃ] before I, E, and Y
 * 2) D becomes [d͡ʒ] before I, E, and Y
 * 3) I becomes [j] before another vowel
 * 4) U becomes [w] before another vowel
 * 5) Y is for greek loans
 * 6) W is for loans only

Multigraphs

 * PH, TH, and CH are greek loans
 * 1) (*) GN is only a final here

Diacritics

 * Ü and Ï are used when U or I aren't [w] or [j] respectivally before another vowel
 * (*) These are [ø], [y], and [a] respectivally

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 [selwə] = forest

Masculine
lopu [lopu] = wolf

Neuter
vienu [vjenu] = wine

Masculine
patr [pat̺] = 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 (i.e.: patru-biu

General Information
Conjugations use pronouns as in French and English due to the similarity of forms.

Mood
Perfects and Pasts

The perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect conjugations were supplanted by a periphrastic construction. The perfect and imperfect lost their meaning and merged into the preterite in the indicative; the subjunctive perfect merged with the imperfect semantically and became the general past.

Conditional and Interrogative

The conditional mood came from the antique latin future perfect tense. The interrogative tense came from the passive subjunctive tenses (the passive became paraphrastic where to be and the participle of the desired tense).

Paraphrastic Phrases
Classes and Perfect Tenses

Class one verbs are normal verbs; these use to have. Class two verbs are reflexive (class one verbs become class two when they're reflexive), arabic loan verbs, and abstract (ex: to wish vs to run) verbs; these use to be. The perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect are made with paraphrastic phrases using the auxiallary of their respective class and the respective participle (present, past, or future).

Futures of Moods

The future subjunctive is the class respective auxillary in the subjunctive present and the future participle. The future perfect is a tense used only with the 3rd conditional where it has the subjunctive past and the future participle.The future interrogative uses the class respective verb in the subjunctive present and the future participle.

Conditional

The second conditional uses the class respective auxillary in the 1st conditional then the past participle. The third conditional uses the class respecitive auxillary in the interrogative future perfect and the infinitive.

Morphology
Standard Shax/Verbs