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. Though, influence from Western Romance languages, namely Iberian, have made it closer to those such languages. It's sister language, Vandalic, followed a much different path. Mauritania was enamored by the Vandals and have borrowed from it*.

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

(*) With permission of course ;)

Vowel
All vowels can be nasal

Stress
Stress falls on primarily on the closed syllable (except if it's ultimate) or a pre-rhotic syllable; if there isn't one of those conditions, the stress falls on the penultimate. Note that stress on the ultimate syllable is on an open syllable followed by a closed syllable in a two syllable word. On two, open syllable words, the stress falls on the ultimate syllable if the ultimate syllable is of a nasal vowel, diphthong, or nasal diphthong.

Sandhi
will be filled in later

Alphabet

 * I/Y and U are [j] and [w] respectivally before another vowel
 * Ɵ and D are [ð] intervocalically
 * K is [ɣ] intervocallically

Multigraphs

 * Kk, Dd, and Θθ negate the intervocalic rule
 * Ei becomes [ɛ_] after or next to R or in a closed syllable
 * If one vowel is nasal in a set, all the vowels are nasal: (amãi [

1st Declension
selua [sɛlwa] - forest Contains only feminine nouns ending in [a].

2nd Declension
lovu [lovu] - wolf Contains only nouns ending in [u].

3rd Declension
faθ [faθ] - father Contains only masculine nouns. This is also the declension for gerunds.

4th Declension
re [re̞] - the truth of the situation/events, a witnesse's claim [in a court of law], reality [as opposed to a fantasy] (can be used to call someone crazy or deluded) Contains only feminine nouns.

Changing gender
Masculine nouns can change to feminine nouns by using the 4th declension and feminine nouns can use the 3rd declension.

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.

Semantics
The indifinite article refers to any given noun. ũ lovu can refer to any single male wolf or any single wolf in general within one's sight. The plural indifinite article refers to any given group. The definite refers to a single important or noteworthy noun. i lovu can refers to the best or most important wolf or a special wolf. The plural refers, again, to a group.

Adjectives
Adjectives decline just like what they're modifying (ex with biũ, good: lovu biu, nice wolf, or selua bia, friendly woods/forest).

Morphology
Full article here.

Reflexive
Put the corresponding accusative pronoun with the verb (ex: u me lu [u me lu] - I wash myself).

Prepositional
Being a head initial language, Shax puts its prepositions (or compound prepositions) in front of the noun. The noun take the Nom-Acc case. Sometimes, the noun will the Gen-Dat case. Note: the noun takes the appropriate article.

Nominal
A nominal phrase has the noun at the head (which is the first word) with adjective following it.