Varaso

Varaso is an Elicic language descended from Vallaran, and the most widely spoken Elicic language.

Orthography

Varaso orthography has been reformed several times and is fairly straightforward. The Varaso alphabet is based on the Vallaran alphabet and contains 27 letters: A Ã B C Ç D E Ê F G H I J L M N O Õ P Q R S T U V X Z. In addition, the five vowels, A E I O U, can carry an acute accent (Á É Í Ó Ú), but these aren't considered separate letters.

Phonology

Varaso is a stress-timed language. Stress usually falls on the penultimate syllable, and words that have unusual stress patterns are marked with an acute accent over the vowel in the stressed syllable. As it's stress-timed, Varaso distinguishes between "strong" and "weak" syllables in some cases. All stressed syllables are "strong", as are closed syllables (syllables ending in a consonant, including nasal vowels) except for esC or -es, which is weak (/ɪʃ/), while weak

Varaso

Varaso

Pronunciation: /vɐˈrazʊ/
Ethnicity: Varasos
Language Family:
Oecumeno-Davanian

• Elicic
• Vallaro-Altic
• Vallaran
• Varaso

syllables are those which are unstressed and end in vowels. Vowels are often reduced or elided to fit the stress-timing rhythm. For example, /vɐˈraʃʊ/ could be pronounced as [vɐˈraˑʃhʷ] or /ˈreʃart/ as [reʃɹ̥t].
The /ʎ/ sound is often realised as [ʝ] in southern dialects (i.e. Scitia, Vándulo, and Baluarte) and as [ɮ] in Treima.
Stop consonants which follow a nasal vowel are often prenasalised (Vándulo = [ˈvãˑ.ⁿdu.lʊ])
/l/ in a final position (or finally before /ɐ/ or /ʊ/ and not following a labial consonant) or following a velar consonant is velarized to [ɫ] in most dialects (escarél = [ɪʃkɐˈreɫ], claro [ˈkɫarʊ], and Gisela = [d͡ʒiˈzeɫɐ] but not Fábula = [ˈfaβulɐ]). In the northeast, this velarised L has become [w] (escarél = [ɪʃkɐˈrew]).
Ls which fall in the coda of a syllable are velarised in most dialects; in eastern dialects this has become the approximant /w/ (e.g. Alvoradã would be pronounced /awvʊˈradɐ̃/.
The character of the rhotic sound /r/ varies between dialects, speakers, or even words, variously being , [ɾ], [ɹ], or [ʀ~ʁ], with the last being particularly prominent in far northern Enzim.
All vowels in Varaso are capable of being nasalised, along with the nasal diphthong "ão". The letters "ã" and "õ" represent nasal vowels, but vowels can also become nasalised by the coalescense of a following nasal consonant.

Consonants

Vowels