Limli: Phonology

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Table of Phonemes

MOA nasals stops fricatives approximants vowels
IPA
/m/
/n/ /ŋ/ /p/ /t/ /k/ /ɸ/ /β/ /h/ /w/ /j/ /i/ /e/ /ä/ /o/ /u/
Hangul 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Latin m n ŋ p t k f v h w y i e a o u
Name Mi
Ni
Ŋi
Pi
Ti
Ki
Fi
Vi
Hi
Wi
Yi
i
e
a
o
u

Notes

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


Phonology

Consonants

labial dental alveolar palatal glottal
Nasals voiced m /m/
n /n/
ń /ŋ/
Stops voiceless t /t/
k /k/
Fricatives voiceless f /φ/
s /s/
voiced v /β/
ǵ /ʝ/
Sonorants voiceless h /h/
voiced w /w/ l /l/
y /j/

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i /i/
u /u/
Close-mid e /e/
o /o/
Open a /ä/

Compound Vowels

W Y
a
e
o
u
i


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> ㅌ; <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.


Syllabary

a 아 e 에 o 오 u 우 i 이
m
n
ń
t
k
ǵ
f
v
s
h
w
l
y


Limli - Syntax