Acallese

Acallese is a rather posteriori Romlang inspired by a number of Romance and Germanic languages. Its major inspiration and influences are French and Spanish, followed by Catalan, German, English, Italian and Corsican. Acallese is supposed to be an easy-to-use/school-friendly yet exciting conlang, at least for its creator, who is its alpha user.

Consonants
The voiced stops may have intervocalic fricative allophones /β, ð, ɣ/ (fabla, cidad, lago).

Phonotactics
Acallese syllable structure can be summarized as follows; parentheses enclose optional components:


 * (C1 (C2 (C3))) (S1) V (S2) (C3 (C4))

Acallese syllable structure consists of an optional syllable onset, consisting of one or two consonants; an obligatory syllable nucleus, consisting of a vowel optionally preceded by and/or followed by a semivowel; and an optional syllable coda, consisting of one or two consonants. The following restrictions apply:


 * Onset
 * First consonant (C1): Can be /s/ or a labiodental fricative.
 * First consonant (C2): Can be any stop or /f/.
 * Third consonant (C3): If and only if the second consonant is a stop /p, t, k, b, d, ɡ/ or a voiceless labiodental fricative /f/, a second consonant, always a liquid /l, r/, is permitted. Exceptions: /tl/ and /dl/
 * Nucleus
 * Semivowel (S1)
 * Vowel (V)
 * Semivowel (S2)
 * Coda
 * First consonant (C3): Can be any consonant
 * Second consonant (C4): Most often /s/, but can be /ɡ/ after /n/ in English loanwords like marketing. A coda combination of two consonants appears only in loanwords (mainly from Classical Latin) but never in words inherited from Vulgar Latin.
 * Medial codas assimilate place features of the following onsets and are often stressed.

Stress
Acallese stress functional: to change the placement of stress changes the meaning of a sentence or phrase: for example, célebri ('famous'), celebri ('[that] he/she celebrates'), and celebrí ('I celebrated') contrast by stress.

Transcription
In traditional transcription, primary stress is marked with an acute accent (´) over the vowel. Unstressed parts of a word are emphasized by placing a breve (˘) over the vowel if a mark is needed, or it is left unmarked.

Position
Stress usually occurs in three positions in Acallese: on the final syllable, the penultimate syllable, or the antepenultimate syllable.