Limli: Phonology

Table of Phonemes

MOA	nasals				stops				fricatives					approximants				vowels
IPA	/m/	/n/	/ŋ/		/t/	/k/	/g/		/ɸ/	/β/	/s/	/h/		/w/	/j/	/l/		/ä/	/e/	/o/	/u/	/i/
Hangul	ㅁ	ㄴ	ㄲ 1		ㅌ	ㄱ 2	ㅋ 3		ㅍ 4	ㅂ 5	ㅅ	ㅎ		6	ㄹ	7		아	에	오	우	이
Latin	m	n	ŋ		t	k	g		f	v	s	h		w	l	y		a	e	o	u	i
Name	Mi 미	Ni 니	Ńi 끼		Ti 디	Ki 기	Ǵi 키		Fi 피	Vi 비	Si 시	Hi 히		Wi 위	Li 리	Yi 의		a 아	e 에	o 오	u 우	i 이

Notes

• ¹ The jamo Ssanggiyeok <ㄲ> /k͈/ is assigned the palatal nasal /ŋ/.
• ² The jamo Giyeok <ㄱ> /g~k~kʰ/ is assigned the voiceless palatal stop /k/.
• ³ The jamo Kieuk <ㅋ> /g~k~kʰ/ is assigned the voiced palatal fricative /ɣ/.
• ⁴ The jamo Pieup <ㅍ> /pʰ/ is assigned the voiceless bilabial fricative /φ/.
• ⁵ The jamo Bieup <ㅂ> /p~pʰ~b/ is assigned the voiced bilabial fricative /β/.
• ⁶ The compound vowels are used for <w>, e.g., ㅘ, wa.
• ⁷ The iotified vowels are used for <y>, e.g., 요, yo.

Phonology

Consonants

		labial	dental	alveolar	palatal	glottal
Nasals	voiceless
	voiced	m /m/ ㅁ	n /n/ ㄴ		ń /ŋ/ ㄲ
Stops	voiceless		t /t/ ㄷ		k /k/ ㄱ
	voiced				ǵ /ɣ/ ㅋ
Fricatives	voiceless	f /φ/ ㅍ		s /s/ ㅅ
	voiced	v /β/ ㅂ
Sonorants	voiceless					h /h/ ㅎ
	voiced	w /w/	l /l/ ㄹ		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	ᆍ			ㅠ
i	ㅟ			ㅢ

Alphabet

• The Limli language has 18 phonemes.
• As the Limlis 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 Korean, they used the Hangul.
• The letters are ordered according to their Manner of Articulation.
• The consonants are <m> ㅁ; <n> ㄴ; <ń> ㄲ; <t> ㄷ; <k> ㄱ; <ǵ> ㅋ; <v> ㅂ; <f> ㅍ; <s> ㅅ; <h> ㅎ; <w>; <l> ㄹ and <y>.
• The vowel inventory consists of <a> ㅏ; <e> ㅔ; <o> ㅗ ; <u> ㅜ and <i> ㅣ.

Limli: Syntax