Yenware Phonology

From FrathWiki
Jump to navigationJump to search

Table of Phonemes

POA
labial
dental alveolar palatal glottal nasal1 vowels
IPA
/φ/
/β/ /w/ /l/ /t/ /ɾ/ /s/ /k/ /j/ /h/ /m/ /n/ /ŋ/ /ä/ /e/ /o/ /u/ /i/
Hangul
2
3 4 5 6 7 ㄲ/ㅇ 8
Latin
f
v w l t r s k y h m n ń a e o u i

Notes

  • The jamo are in the order of the Korean alphabet (ganad), consonants first, then vowels, known in Yenware as the favawa.
  • 1 The nasals are grouped together because only they can be found as syllable codas.
  • 2 The jamo Pieup <ㅍ> /pʰ/ is assigned the voiceless bilabial fricative /φ/.
  • 3 The jamo Bieup <ㅂ> /p~pʰ~b/ is assigned the voiced bilabial fricative /β/.
  • 4 The compound vowels are used for <w>, e.g., , wa.
  • 5 Since Yenware has both /ɾ/ and /l/, there was a need to find unique jamos for each. The jamo Rieul <ㄹ> was retained for /l/. The jamo Jieut /tɕ/ <ㅈ> was assigned the voiced alveolar tap /ɾ/, because it bears a resemblance to the <ㅅ> /s/ with which it shares the alveolar group.
  • 6 The jamo Giyeok <ㄱ> /g~k~kʰ/ is assigned the voiceless palatal stop /k/.
  • 7 The iotized vowels are used for <y>, e.g., , yo.
  • 8 The jamo Ssanggiyeok <ㄲ> /k͈/ is assigned the palatal nasal /ŋ/. The jamo Ieung <ㅇ> is used when /ŋ/ is a syllable coda.


Phonology

Consonants

labial dental alveolar palatal glottal
Nasals voiceless
voiced m /m/ n /n/ ń /ŋ/ ㄲ/ㅇ
Stops voiceless t /t/ k /k/
voiced
Fricatives voiceless f /φ/ s /s/
voiced v /β/
Sonorants voiceless h /h/
voiced w /w/ l /l/ r /ɾ/ y /j/

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i /i/ u /u/
Close-mid e /e/ o /o/
Open a /ä/

Compound Vowels

W Y
a
e
o
u
i