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Revision as of 02:39, 30 August 2021

Table of Phonemes

IPA /h/ /χ/ /ɣ/ /w/ /o/ /u/ /k/ /g/ /ŋ/ /t/ /d/ /θ/ /ð/ /p/ /b/ /ɸ/ /β/ /s/ /z/ /j/ /i/ /e/ /ɛ/ /ä/ /n/ /m/ /l/ /ɾ/ /ʔ/
Latin H h ġ W w O o U u K k G g Ń ń T t D d P p B b S s Z z Y y I i E e ė A a N n M m L l R r ʻ
Arabic ح خ ݗ و ۄ ۆ ک ݢ گ ط ظ د ذ ٮ ڡ ڢ ص ض ی ي ه ا ن م ل ر ع
Name Ha
حا
Ḳa
خا
Ġa
ݗا
Wa
وا
Wo
وۄ
Wu
وۆ
Kaf
کا
Gaf
ݢا
Ńaf
گا
Ta
طا
Da
ظا
Ṭa
دا
Ḍa
ذا
Pa
ٮا
Ba
با
Ṗa
ڡا
Ḃa
ڢا
Sa
صا
Za
ضا
Ya
ىا
Yi
ىي
Ye
ىه

ىٰ
Alif
ا
Nun
نۆن
Mim
ميم
Lam
لام
Ra
را
ʻan
عان
  • The letters are ordered in an arrangement wherein letters are grouped together by similarity of shape.
  • The consonants in blue are those used as numerals in the octal numeral system.


Phonology

Consonant Chart

Bilabial Dental Alveolar Palatal Glottal
Nasals voiceless
voiced m /m/ م n /n/ ن ń /ŋ/ گ 4
Stops voiceless p /p/ ٮ 1 t /t/ ط k /k/ ک 5 ʻ /ʔ/ ع
voiced b /b/ ﺏ d /d/ ظ 2 g /g/ ݢ 6
Fricatives voiceless f /ɸ/ ڡ ṭ /θ/ د s /s/ ص 3 ḳ /ɣ/ خ h /h/ ح 7
voiced ḃ /β/ ڢ ḍ /ð/ ذ z /z/ ض ġ /χ/ ݗ
Sonorants voiceless
voiced w /w/ و l /l/ ل y /j/ ی
Tap voiced r /ɾ/ ر

Notes:

  • 1 Dotless Beh <ٮ> is assigned the value /p/.
  • 2 <ظ> /d/ is taken from the Shughni alphabet [1].
  • 3 <ص> /s/ and <ض> /z/ are taken from the Belarusian alphabet [2].
  • 4 Taken from the Khorasanic Turkic <نگ> /ŋ/ [3].
  • 5 The Urdu Kāf /k/.
  • 6 The Malay Ga /g/.
  • 7 <ح> /h/ is taken from the Indus Kohistani alphabet [4].


Vowel Chart

Front Central Back
Close i /i/ ي u /u/ ۆ 3
Near-close
Close-mid e /e/ ه 1 o /o/ ۄ 4
Open-mid ė /ɛ/ 2
Open a /ä/ ا

Notes:

  • 1 From the Bosnian alphabet [5].
  • 2 Since this vowel cannot occur alone in a syllable, a diacritic is used, e.g., صٰ, .
  • 3 From the Bosnian alphabet.
  • 4 The Kashmiri /ɔ/ [6].


Alphabet - Hawak حاواک

  • The Liwadi alphabet (hawak حاواک) has 29 graphemes ( ۄگ) which represent 29 phonemes (nihoń نيحۄگ).
  • As the Liwadis had no writing when discovered by the space travelers, a written alphabet was created by the anthropologists who were on the voyage. As they were Egyptian, they used the Arabic alphabet. I have transliterated them into the Latin alphabet for this study.
  • The 17 fundamental consonants are h, w, k, g, ń, t, d, p, b, s, z, y, n, m, l, r and ʻ.
  • When the six stop consonants (k, g , t, d, p, b) precede a consonant, they are lenited to the corresponding fricative. These are indicated by writing the letter with a dot over or under (ḳ, ġ , ṭ, ḍ, ṗ, ḅ).
  • The vowel inventory consists of the six vowels a, e, ė, i, o, and u. By not using diacritics only to represent these sounds, the Arabic abjad has been made into an alphabet.


Liwadi: Syntax