Senjecas - Korean
Pronunciation table
| p | b | f | v | m̃ | m | t | d | þ | ð | ɫ | l | ṡ | ż | s | z | r | n | k | g | x | ƣ | h | ȝ | š | s̨ | i | e | a | ǫ | o | u | ĭ | ĕ | ŭ | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /p/ | /b/ | /ɸ/ | /β/ | /m̥/ | /m/ | /t/ | /d/ | /θ/ | /ð/ | /l̥/ | /l/ | /ʦ/ | /ʣ/ | /s/ | /z/ | /ɾ̥/ | /n/ | /k/ | /g/ | /ç/ | /ʝ/ | /j̊/ | /j/ | /sʷ/ | /sʲ/ | /i/ | /e/ | /ä/ | /ɒ/ | /o/ | /u/ | /ɪ/ | /ɛ/ | /ʊ/ |
Consonants
| peműko (labial) |
riisűko (dental) |
muitűko (alveolar) |
vainűko (palatal) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| voiceless stop | p | ㅂ | t | ㄷ | ṡ | ㅈ | k | ㄱ |
| voiced stop | b | ㅃ1 | d | ㄸ | ż | ㅉ2 | g | ㄲ |
| voiceless fricative | f | ㅸ | þ | ㅌ | s | ㅅ | χ | ㅋ |
| voiced fricative | v | ㅹ | ð | ㅿ3 | z | ㅆ | ƣ | ㅊ4 |
| voiceless sonorant | m̃ | ㅱ5 | ɫ | ᄛ6 | r | ㄴ | h | ㅎ |
| voiced sonorant | m | ㅁ | l | ㄹ7 | n | ㅥ8 ㅇ9 |
ȝ | 10 |
| Labialization and Palatalization | ||||||||
| sʷ | 11 | sʲ | 12 | |||||
Notes
- A doubled jamo represents the voiced member of the pair (Wikipedia: "In the original Korean alphabet system, double letters were used to represent Chinese voiced consonants...").
- Jieut <ㅈ> /ʨ/ does not exist in Senjecas, so the jamo is assigned the value /ʦ/, with ssangjieut representing the voiced member /ʣ/.
- A twin tieut <ㅌ> does not exist, so the North Korean jamo bansiot <ㅿ> is assigned the value of /ð/. It is pronounced /t/ before a consonant in North Korea.
- A twin kieuk <ㅋ> does not exist, so the last remaining consonant <ㅊ> /ch/ is assigned the value /ɣ/.
- The obsolete consonant <ㅱ>, /w/, from the Chinese rime table is assigned to /m̥/.
- By analogy with <ㅱ>, <ᄛ> is assigned to represent /l̥/.
- Since /ɾ̥/ is paired with /n/ in Senjecas, rieul <ㄹ> is assigned the value /l/.
- Since /ɾ̥/ is paired with /n/ in Senjecas, /n/ as the voiced member of the pair is the doubled consonant.
- The phoneme /n/ is the only one for which I use two jamo, for two reasons. One, there are no syllable blocks with <ㅥ> as the coda. And two, I like the looks of it! Who knows, maybe some of the Sefdaanians used /ŋ/ when the /n/ was a syllable coda!
- Since /j/ never occurs as a coda, there is no need for a jamo for <ȝ>. When <ȝ> is initial, ieung before a vowel is used, e.g., ȝı̋ta, evening 의다.
- Labialization is indicated by using the labialized consonants, e.g., si, 시; swi, 쉬.
- Palatalization is indicated by using the palatalized consonants, e.g., sa, 사; sya, 샤.
Vowels
| front | near-front | center | near-back | back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |||
| close | i - ㅣ/이 | ii -ㅣᆞ/이ᆞ1 | u - ㅜ/우 | uu - ㅜᆞ/우ᆞ | ||||
| near-close | ĭ - ㅡ2 | ŭ - ㅡ | ||||||
| close-mid | e - ㅔ/에 | ee - ㅔᆞ/에ᆞ | o - ㅗ/오 | oo - ㅗᆞ/오ᆞ | ||||
| mid | ĕ - ㅐ3 | |||||||
| open | a - ㅏ/아 | aa - ㅏᆞ/아ᆞ | ǫ - ㅓ/어4 | ǫǫ - ㅓᆞ/어ᆞ | ||||
Notes
1. A long vowel is indicated by a dot <ᆞ> after the jamo, e.g., na̋a̋ȝe, dog, ㅥㅓᆞ예; űűra, craft, 우ᆞ나. 2. The "weak vowels" <ĭ> and <ŭ> are only used for reduplication, the perfect tenses of verbs and the comparative of adjectives. Since they are not interchangeable, <ĭ> when the root vowel is front and <ŭ> when the root vowel is back, there is no confusion in their use, so I'm using the same jamo for both, e.g., me̋e̋i, many, 메ᆞ이; mĭme̋e̋i, more, 므메ᆞ이; pűla, divide, 부라; pŭpűla, has divided, 브부라 . The past tenses use the prefix e-, e-pŭpűla, had divided, 에브부라 . 3. The letter ae <ㅐ> /æ/ is assigned the value /ɛ/. This sound is used in making compounds to avoid unallowed compound clusters, e.g., ma̋nka, mutilate, 망가; ma̋nkĕra, 망개나, mutilation. 4. The jamo <ㅓ> eo /˄/ is reassigned the value /ɔ/.
