Nuxálk Han'gǔl

This is a joke-orthography for Nuxálk. The idea is to use Han'gǔl to write the language which it is the least suited for.

Phoneme inventory

<> marks Nuxálk romanization. [] marks the pronunciation of consonants in Nuxálk. I used [] because aspiration and palatalization is not phonemic, but it might be interesting to compare the actual pronunciation of a phoneme with the choice of jamo for it. Nuxálk vowels are marked with // because they have lots of allophony. The Korean pronunciation of the jamo are given in [size=9]/small text/[/size]. The colors are not a part of the orthography, see explanation further down.

Consonants

[pʰ tʰ [color=blue]kʲʰ[/color] [color=red]kʷʰ[/color] [color=blue]qʰ[/color] [color=red]qʷʰ[/color] ʔ] ㅍㅌ[color=blue]ㅋ[/color][color=red]ㅋ[/color][color=blue]ㆁ[/color][color=red]ㆁ[/color]ㆆ [size=9]/pʰ tʰ kʰ kʰ ŋ ŋ ʔ/[/size]

	Bilabial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nuxálk romanization	p	t	k
Phonetic value
Jamo
Korean pronunciation of jamo

<p' t' [color=blue]k'[/color] [color=red]kw'[/color] [color=blue]q'[/color] [color=red]qw'[/color]> [pʼ tʼ [color=blue]kʼʲ[/color] [color=red]kʼʷ[/color] [color=blue]qʼ[/color] [color=red]qʼʷ[/color]] ㅃㄸ[color=blue]ㄲ[/color][color=red]ㄲ[/color][color=blue]ㆀ[/color][color=red]ㆀ[/color] [size=9]/p_" t_" k_" k_" ? ?/[/size]

<ts> [tsʰ] ㅊ [size=9]/tɕʰ/[/size]

<ts' tl'> [tsʼ tɬʼ] ㅉㅈ [size=9]/tɕ͈ tɕ/[/size]

[s ɬ [color=blue]xʲ[/color] [color=red]xʷ[/color] [color=blue]χ[/color] [color=red]χʷ[/color] h] ㅅㅀ[color=blue]ㆅ[/color][color=red]ㆅ[/color][color=blue]ㅆ[/color][color=red]ㅆ[/color]ㅎ [size=9]/s lh ɣ_tʲ ɣ_tʲ s_" s_" h/[/size]

<m n l [color=blue]y[/color] [color=red]w[/color]> [m n l [color=blue]j[/color] [color=red]w[/color]] ㅁㄴㄹ** [size=9]/m n ɾ j w/[/size]

Neutral vowels

/i u a/ ㅣㅗㅐ [size=9]/i o ɛ/[/size]

<yi yu ya> /ji ju ja/ ㅢㅛㅒ [size=9]/ɰi jo jɛ/[/size]

<wi wu wa> /wi wu wa/ ㅟㅝㅙ [size=9]/wi wʌ wɛ/[/size]

Labial vowels

/i u a/ ㅔㅜㅏ [size=9]/e u a/[/size]

<yi yu ya> /ji ju ja/ ㅖㅠㅑ [size=9]/je ju ja/[/size]

<wi wu wa> /wi wu wa/ ㅞᆍㅘ [size=9]/we ? wa/[/size]

Syllable blocks

Sequences of CV, CVC or VC are stacked together into a syllable block, if possible. The consonants ㆁ, ㆆ, ㆀ and ㆅ are not stackable, and therefore left out from syllable blocks. The vowel ᆍ is also not stackable, and therefore left uncomposed. The consonant ㅀ can only appear at the tail position of a syllable block. Unstackable consonant jamo, ㅀ that is not preceded by a vowel, and any consonants that are neither preceded or followed by a vowel are written alone using the Hangul Compatibility Jamo of Unicode. So for example, the word sps (northeast wind) which contain no vowels is written ㅅㅍㅅ.

Vowels, with the exception of ᆍ, are always used in syllable blocks. If the vowel is not preceded by any stackable consonant, the null initial is used.

The consonants p, t, k, and kw are represented by ㅂ, ㄷ, ㄱ resp. ㄱ in the tail position of a syllable block.

How to mark labialized consonants

There are three kinds of consonant jamo: labial (marked with [color=red]red[/color] in the chart), non-labial (marked with [color=blue]blue[/color]) and neutral (black text), and two kinds of vowels: labial and neutral. The labial consonants are identical to their non-labial counterparts, so they are instead distinguished by the use of vowels before them.

Labial vowels are used if they are followed by a labial consonant, otherwise neutral vowels are used. There may be any number of neutral consonants between the labial vowel and the labial consonant. There may [u]not[/u] be any other vowels or non-labial consonants between them. They must also be both in the same word.

낏마ㅜ For example, in the word k'ismaw (nine), the vowel a is followed by the labial consonant w, so the a is represented by the labial jamo ㅏ. The i however is not followed by any labial consonant before the second vowel, so it is represented by the neutral vowel ㅣ.

Word-final i is written with ㅣ however, if preceded by k, k' or c.

In cases where a labial consonant is in such a position that its labialness can not be marked on any vowel, the jamo ㅱ is placed before that consonant.

Other notes

w and y are written with the w- and y-series of vowel jamo, if they are followed by a vowel. If not, then w is written as ㅜ and y as ㅣ (both without any null initial).

Long vowels are marked by putting : after the jamo or syllable block. Stress is unmarked.

Text samples

From Wikipedia clhp'xwlhtlhplhhskwts' (he had had in his possession a bunchberry plant) ㆅㅀㅃㅱㅆㅀㅌㅀㅍㅀㅀㅅㅱㅋㅉ

From some source English Nuxalk One Maw 마ㅜ Two Lhwaas ㅀ왜〯ㅅ Three Asmús 앳못 Four Mús 못 Five Ts'ícw 쩨ㆅ Man Kwtmts ㅱㅋㅌㅁㅊ Woman Cnas ㆅ냇 Sun Snx ㅅㄴㅆ Moon Tl'uk 족 Water Qla ㆁ라

From another source, probably another dialect because the numbers have different names Nuxalk English Smaw One ㅅ마ㅜ Lhnus Two ㅀ놋 Asmus Three 앳못 Mus Four 못 Ts'icw Five 쩨ㆅ T'xulh Six ㄸ쏧 Nusalhklhm Seven 노샗ㅌㅀㅁ K'ilhnus Eight 낋놋 K'ismaw Nine 낏마ㅜ Ts'klakt Ten ㅉㅋ락ㅌ

Tl'ux ta manlh t'ax 좄태맨ㅀ땠 Putl'ilhsuts ulh inu alh ti suncwt 포짏솣옳이노앯티순ㆅㅌ Stutwiniitulhcw ala snknicilhats ㅅ톧위니〯 툻ㆅ애래ㅅㄴㅋ니ㆅ잃앷 Alhkaltcwmtulhx alh ti suncw 앯칼ㅌㆅㅁ톯ㅆ앯티순ㆅ Way! 왜ㅣ！

Our heavenly father We come to you today We thank you for the food Take care of us today Amen!