Ll

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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