Old Shax

General information
Standard Shax is the standard version of the Shax language. It has based heavaly on French and Italian. It is a sandhi language. It is the official language of Shaxia. Shaxia is a country that exists in modern-day Provence-Alpes-Côte D'azure, Corse, Piemonte, and Lingueria.

Sandhi

 * 1) The first vowel is merged with second
 * 2) Progressive vowel harmony
 * 3) H is treated as a vowel
 * 4) ' is replaced witht the vowel (ex: ìo+aö = ì'aö)
 * 5) "Lei" is exempt from sandhi rules (ex: Lei + ê = Lei ê = /leɪjɛ/)

Stress / Emphasis
Stress goes on the last vowel unless stated otherwise with ◌́

When the last has ◌́ then the emphasis is optional but the vowel must be long

Sentences and Words Order
Shax is SVO (simple sentences may be VO)

Adjectives go after the noun in the same order as French

Verbs don't need a pronoun as the conjugation indicates person

Alphabet
¹ /ʃ/ before E, I, and Y. /k/ elsewhere.

² /dʒ/ as an onset consonant

³ /ŋ/ before a velar

⁴ /c/ or /ɟ/ after /ɲ/ or /j/

⁵ Only appears as /kʷ/ when in the cluster Q+U

⁶ Y = i+/j/. /ij/ when it's the first letter

Other Orthography
¹ /ə/ isn't necessary to pronounce.

² may be combined with other vowels (ex: ai = /e/, aï = /aɪ/, aḯ = /ɐ̆i̩/); vowels only

³ vowels only; any I / U

⁴ Opens vowel (ex: ê = /ɛ/, ô = /ɔ/, â = /a̩/, î = /i/, û = /u/, ŷ = /ij/);  indicates historical S or Z; make a syllabic vowel

Verbs
Shax verbs conjugate to
 * Mood (Indicative, Subjunctive, Conditional, and Imperitive)
 * Tense (Present, Past, Imperfect, Future, Present Perfect, Past Perfect, and Future Perfect)
 * Voice (Active, Passive)
 * Person (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
 * Number (Singular, Plural)

Verb Families
¹only with irregular verbs
 * -er
 * -ar
 * -ir
 * -uar¹

Forming the Perfect tenses
Present Perfect = ABUAR indicative present conjugation + present participle

Past Perfect = ABUAR indicative present conjugation  + past participle

Future Perfect = ABUAR indicative future conjugation    +  present participle 

Abuar
to Have (only an auxillary)

Postuar
to be Possible (only an auxillary)

Êtuar
to Be (only an auxillary)