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), and syllables ending in "-i", "-ê", and "-u", while unstressed syllables are those which are unstressed and end in "-a", "-e", or "-o". Some vowels are elided to fit the stress-timing rhythm.

Varaso

Lo Scípio Varaso

Pronunciation: [lʊ ˈʃipjʊ vɐˈraʃʊ]
Ethnicity: Varasos
Language Family:
Continental

• Elicic
• Vallaro-Altic
• Vallaran
• Varaso

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