Lalakhmet

General Information
Lalakhmet (also known as Proto-Lalakhi) is an a priori, proto- lang.

Proto-Lalakhi is an acient language spoken along the same period as Ancient Egyptian.

Verbs
Verbs are seperated into "animation" classes which classify verbs based on how they function. Verbs conjugate in three ways, using vowel and consonant gradation for tense, suffixes for person, number, and voice, and set prefixes for other information. The 5 classes of animation are:
 * Direct action (I) : the verb requires the physical body, often implying movement (run, touch, walk, &c)
 * Indirect action (II) : the verb is physical, but is done via tools (row, cook, weave, &c)
 * Actions of exchange (III) : the verbs relates to money or greetings (exchange, buy/purcahse, greet, say hello, &c)
 * Mental action (IV) : the verb relates to cognition and math (think, smell, touch, compute, add, &c)
 * Existential (V) : the verb relates to intrinsic qualities or temporary states of being (feel, experience, exist, be, &c)

Gradation
There is productive consonant and vowel gradation in Lalakhmet. Gradation has various important uses in multiple areas of Lalakhmet morphology.

The present, past, and future tenses take the full, shortened, and rounded grades respectively. For the future tense, however, that is paired with a lenition consonant g rade I. For example, trukkakąn, he/she runs, becomes trokkakąn, he/she ran, or trukakąn, he/she will run. To add the optative mood to a respective tense, the consonant lenition grade goes up one, as in, the present tense will have both the full vowel grade and the lenition consonant grade I. For example, trukkakąn > trukakąn, he/she wants to run, trokkakąn > trokakąn, he/she wanted to run, and trukakąn > trugakąn, he/she will want to run.

The zero  vowel  grade affects the person/number/voice suffixes in the causative voice (trukkakąn, he/she runs, becomes trukkak, he/she is made to run).

Voice and Person Suffixes
A given verb will have its base form ending in -r, the suffix for a verb. If the suffix during conjugation ends in a vowel, the -r, remains (trukkar, run; trukkari, I run), but if it ends in a consonant, the -r is removed (trukka_ti, you run).

Class I
The thematic vowel in this class is short I and a zero-grade vowel gradation in the causative voice. Common verbs include trukkar, to run, and gātar, to punch.

Class II
The thematic vowel remains a short I in the active, but becomes a short A in the passive and reflexive and has an -n- functioning as a suffix from the circumposition ka… -n, meaning "using" or "employing," as well as keeping the zero-grade vowel gradation in the causative voice. Common verbs include þrār, to weave/sow, and xāþīr, to cook.

Class III
The thematic vowel is -ja- and the causative and the first vowel of the reflexive simplifies to -o-. Common verbs include wǣkir, to trade [goods], and tþūnrir, to barter.

Class IV
The thematic vowel is -vi- or -u- while the causative is always -u-. Common verbs include qūrir, to think, and hjǣŋŋir, to smell.

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Ideas:
 * Adjectives with degrees of connotativeness (heinous, bad, neutral, good, wonderful) and voice (positive/negative, active/passive) with comparativeness made with another specifically declining adjective
 * Roots be at the base with verbs, noun, and adjectives being formed therefrom
 * Strong emphasis on reflexive (esp. with antipassive)