Varrit

General Information
Varrit (natively Bvareq Otan [ˈvɨə̯ɾɪʔ ˈɑ̝wʰtɜŋ]; Alemarese Veariq) is a language isolate spoken on the semi-autonomous Varrit Islands of Alemar, off the coast of Barejinia on the Chevin Peninsula.

Consonants

 * /n/ is realized as [ŋ] word-finally.
 * The lax series consonants are voiced when between two voiced sounds.
 * The aspirated series consonants are preaspirated after vowels.
 * The /h/ phoneme can be pronounced [x] or [h] in free variation, tending towards [x] in educated speech. It is however exclusively pronounced [x] in the coda.

Vowels

 * The vowel system of Varrit used to be a simple ten vowel system: five short, five long, but it underwent something like the opposite of the Great Vowel Shift of English. Long vowels lowered, short vowels raised (except for short /i/ and /u/).

Writing System
Digraphs: Examples:
 * <ð>, , , and <þ> are only used in borrowed words and are natively pronounced /z/, /s/, /r/, and /s/ respectively.  is unpronounced is borrowed words and is used in native words in the digraph , which used to be its own letter.
 * dzirris /tsiris/ [ˈtsɪɾɪs]
 * jummuts /humuutsʰ/ [ˈxʊmʊʰts]
 * tqinde /tʼintee/ [ˈtʼɪndæj]
 * akqin /aakʼin/ [ˈɨə̯kʼɪŋ]
 * huettsu /wetsʰuu/ [ˈwɪʰtsoː]