Alegna

General information
Aleña (/aʎeɲa/) is a Romance language spoken in modern day Portuagal, Spain, and Southern France. It is regulated by the Academy of Aleñal Culture and Language. (AACL). Because it divereges directly from Classical Latin, it is closer to Latin than many languages

Consonants
/k, g/ turn into [s, ʒ] before /i, e, ɛ/

/l/ becomes [ʎ] before /e, ɛ/

Alphabet
-Accented vowels are represented by é

Sound Changes From Latin
Note just the final and initial sounds are being shown for now The sound changes occurring with final letters is much more complex. S and r only the only final consonants that can occur. Therefore, other final consonants either became n/r or changed the vowel.
 * Many nouns inserted e or a after r, liber > libère

Nouns
In the transition from Latin to Aleña, the neuter gender was loss, along with all cases. While the netuer gender was lost, most neuter nouns merged with femine nouns. Declensions for number still remain, but the ending changes depending on the gender. Most nouns in Aleña end in a vowel. Words that end in -o or -e are generally masculine; words that end in -a or -u are generally femine. Some nouns end in a consonant, nouns that end in -n are feminine or masculine

Number
The declension for number depends on the noun. Note that è becomes e in plural nouns

Pronouns
Aleña makes no T-V distinction. There are distinct pronoun forms of the nominative, accusative, dative, and reflexive cases (though reflexive and dative pronouns are the same) There are also distinct possesive pronouns Aleña also has demonstrative pronouns. The equivalent of that is listed below The equivalent of this is listed below

Verbs
There are 5 possible verb endings in Aleña, -ar, -air, -er, -èr, and -ir. There are 4 tenses in Aleña: present, past preterite, past imperfect, future. Due to the sound changes between Latin and Aleña, some of the conjugations of -er and -ir have become very similar. Aleña also makes no distinction between the simple and continuous aspects. Therefore there are no present participles in Aleña.

Like other Romance languages, Aleña forms perfect tenses by using haber + the past participle (derived from the perfect participle).

-air verbs (amair - to love) Past Participle: amáidon

Because of phonetic changes, there are 3 commonly irregular -ar verbs, -lar, -car and -gar verbs. These verbs experience a stem change only in the ile/ila form of the verb. This irregualarity is shared by -lair, -cair, and -gair verbs, due to both being derived from the latin -are conjugation.

Example of a -gar verb, pogar - to fight Example of a -lar verb, salar - to dance Example of a -car verb