Alegna

General information
Aleña (/al.'e.ɲa/) is a Romance inspired language spoken in modern-day Portuagal, Spain, and Southern France. It is regulated by the Academy of Aleñal Culture and Language. (AACL).

Diphthongs
[aɪ, aʊ, je, wo]

Orthography
1c is pronounced as [s] before [j, i, e]. A hard c can be written as qu

2g is pronounced as [x] before [j, i, e]. A hard g can be written as gu

3r is pronounced as [ ɾ] at the beginning of words and after consonants. It is pronounced as [ ʁ] everywhere else.

Aleña uses the acute accent (´) to mark stress. Except in a dipthong, a grave accent (`) on a vowel indicates a vowel is preceded by /j/.

Punctuation and Capitalization
Periods

Aleña uses periods to end a complete sentence or abbreviate a word, e.g. ''Lê àivòn vuolào suovêr lo dào. ''

Commas

Aleña uses commas to depedent clauses or preposition phrases to the beginning of a sentence or to separate ideas in a list.

Question Marks

Question marks appear at the end of an interrogative sentence

Quotation marks

Aleña uses < > instead of quotation marks.

Capitalization

Aleña capitalizes names, titles, and place. It does not capitalize religions, languages, or adjectives derived places

Stress
Stress in Alenã falls on the penultimate syllable, except in infinitves, where it maintained Latin's stress on the V̄́re. Irregular stress is marked by the accute accent (´).

Nouns
Unlike the other romance languages, Aleña did not completely eliminate Latin's case system, however, it came quite close. Latin's 5 declensions were also condensed into 3 declensions, with neuter nouns becoming masculine. Furthermore,  Latin's cases were reduced to the nominative and oblique in Aleña. They are used as follows:

The nominative case is used to mark the subject of the verb and after certain prepositions. It is also used to mark the agent in the passive voice.

The oblique case is used to mark objects of the verb and after certain prepositions. It is also used to mark the patient in the passive voice.

Ambiguous case/gender/number are resolved by the articles

Declension I
These nouns are derived from the -a stems in Latin and are mostly feminine.

Declension II
These nouns are derived from the -us, -um stems in Latin and are mostly masculine.

Declension III
These nouns are derived from the  -es, -is stems (in the genitive) in Latin and are both masculine and feminine

Pronouns
Pronouns in Latin preserve the case system to a much higher degree than regular nouns, keeping (to some degree) the nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, and reflexive cases. In general the nominative case is used to mark the subject and after certain prepositions, the accusative case is used to mark the direct object and after certain prepositions, the dative case is used to mark the direct object, the genitive case is used to mark possesson, and the reflexive case is used to indicate that subject both does and receives an action.