Søta

Søta is a casual project that I will be messing around with in the limited free time I have lately; it is not my intention for it to have a unique, complex, or innovative grammar, but instead for it to be essentially a guinea pig for any linguistic functions and systems that I'd like to try out. The end result will likely be a very shallow and simple grammar and phonology that will be easy to manipulate and learn. This lang is entirely for personal use and will maintain characteristics that appeal to me, though I am very eager for and open to any kind of feedback or ideas interested people might have for such an open-ended project; I will do my best to regularly check the Talk page.

Vowels
-Most vowels have long/short pairs that will be addressed further in the Orthography.

-/ɑ, ɑː/ is present in most dialects though with varying realizations: as the long counterpart of /a/ in the majority of dialects; as an allophone of /ɔ/.

-In those dialects where /ɑː/ is the realization of long /a/, /ɑː/ has an allophone [ɔ:] before /r, l/.

Orthography
The orthography of Søta is reasonably regular; a significant amount of the pronunciation of words is conveyed by extra-graphemic spelling conventions, especially relative to vowels (eg. i is /i/ before a single consonant, but /ɪ/ before two (with some exceptions); í is always /iː/; unmarked i in a single syllable word followed by a single consonant will always be /ɪ/). Long vowels are marked by an acute accent; historically all short vowels had long counterparts, though in most modern dialects the long versions of /ɪ, ʊ, ɔ, ɛ/ have merged with /i, u, o ,e/ respectively.