Grammar is a mix of a priori and a posteriori. Vocab is primarily a priori and loosely based mainly on German, French, and Spanish. This originally started as an imagined creole of the above three developed in a 18/19th C. Louisiana with a much larger German population. The name was a mash up of Acadian, Alemannic German, and Creole.
Someone with a long memory may remember some of the really early stuff.
I think (hope?) it's improved a lot since then. I do know that it's really not all that good at what it was originally intended to do, but it's moved on. It doesn't use period appropriate vocab run through regular sound changes, but rather vocab picked rather randomly (mostly from German, French, and Spanish, but from others as well) changed more or less at random according to my own fancy, with a dose of a posteriori words.
I'd be happy to answer any questions - with the caveat that said answer may very well be "I don't know", "I don't remember where that camefrom or why I did it", or "I haven't figured it out or decided yet".
Grammar:
https://daistallia.neocities.org/kadima ... ammar.html
Vocab:
https://daistallia.neocities.org/kadima ... vocab.html
https://daistallia.neocities.org/kadiman/phonology.htmlPhonology
Consonants
/m n ŋ ŋ/ < m n nj ng>
/p t k/ < p t k>
/b d g/ < b d g>
/ts) dz) tʃ) dʒ)/ <t s dz ch dj>
/f s ʃ x h/ < f s sh x h>
/v z/ < v z>
/ɹ j l/ <r j l>
/w/ < w>
Vowels
/i e a u o/ <i e a u o>
Dipthongs
/ei eu ai oi au ou/ <ei eu ai oi au ou>
Stress and Intonation
Stress consists of dynamic accent/loudness. Monosyllables are generally unstressed. In multi-syllablic words, grammatical stress is always on the final syllable. Vowels always keep their full quality, regardless of in whether a syllable is stressed or unstressed. General, the only last word in a phrase or sentence retains its full grammatical stress,while the other words in the phrase or sentence have a lesser degree of stress.
Emphatic stress, used to express contrast, reinforce emotion, or otherwise call attention to a specific word or element in a given context, falls on the first consonant-initial syllable.
Intonation (variation in pitch) is generally found over the final two syllables of a sentence. Declarative and imperative sentences generally have a flat intonation. Open/information questions have a falling intonation. And closed/yes-no questions have a rising intonation.