Yenware Phonology

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	ㅍ 2	ㅂ 3	4		ㄹ	ㄷ			ㅈ 5	ㅅ		ㄱ 6	7		ㅎ			ㅁ	ㄴ	ㄲ/ㅇ 8			아	에	오	우	이
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., ㅘ, 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., 요, 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/ ㅁ	n /n/ ㄴ		ń /ŋ/ ㄲ/ㅇ
Stops	voiceless		t /t/ ㄷ		k /k/ ㄱ
	voiced
Fricatives	voiceless	f /φ/ ㅍ		s /s/ ㅅ
	voiced	v /β/ ㅂ
Sonorants	voiceless					h /h/ ㅎ
	voiced	w /w/	l /l/ ㄹ	r /ɾ/ ㅈ	y /j/

Vowels

	Front		Central		Back
Close	i /i/ 이				u /u/ 우
Close-mid	e /e/ 에				o /o/ 오
Open			a /ä/ 아

Compound Vowels

	W			Y
a	ㅘ			ㅑ
e	ㅞ			ㅖ
o	ᆂ			ㅛ
u	ᆃ			ㅠ
i	ㅟ			ㅢ