Ll

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Inventory

Consonants

Ll consonants are odd from European language in a few ways. For one, syllabic consonants are phonemic and common; the name of the language itself is a syllabic l, /l̩ː/. Additionally, Ll has quite a few allophones, which are distinguish below the consonant chart.

Consonants
Labial Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Laryngeal
central lateral
Nasal m̥ m m̩ n̥ n n̩ nː
Plosive p b t d k g
Trill ʀ ʜ
Fricative f fː v θ s sː z ł ɮ ʃ ʃː ʒ x h
Affricate ts tsː tʃ dʒ
Approximant ɹ l l̩ lː j ʍ w

Allophones

/tʃ/ is an allophone of /k/ when in stressed syllables, ultimate syllables or followed by /e/ or sometimes /i/. /dʒ/ is an allophone of /g/ when in stressed syllables. /z/ is an allophone of /s/ when in stressed syllables. /ɮ/ is an allophone of /ɬ/ when in stressed syllables. /ʒ/ is an allophone of /g/ when in ultimate syllables. /ʃ/ is an allophone of /h/ when in ultimate syllables /ʍ/ is sometimes an allophone of /k/ before vowels. /θ/ is an allophone of /h/ when in ultimate syllables and followed by /e/ or sometimes /i/. /t/ is an allophone of /θ/ when followed by /e/ or sometimes /i/. /b/ is an allophone of /m/ when followed by /e/ or sometimes /i/ /fː/ is an allophone of /p/ when between two vowels. /ʜ/ is an allophone of /h/ when between in intial posistion.

Vowels

The following vowel phonemes are used:

Front Central Back
High i
Mid e o
Low a

Diphthongs

i e o a
e ei eo
o oi oe oa
a ai ao

Romanization

Consonants

Consonants
Labial Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Laryngeal
central lateral
Nasal m̈ m m n̈ n n nn
Plosive p b t d k g
Trill rr hh
Fricative f ff v th s sc z lh lh sh sch zh x h
Affricate ts tch kh gh
Approximant r l l ll j ẅ w

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i
Mid e o
Low a

Diphthongs

i e o a
e ae eo
o oy oe oi
a y ao