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	\| style="border-right: 0;" \| [[w:Open-mid back unrounded vowel\|ʌ]]		\| style="border-right: 0;" \| [[[w:Open-mid back unrounded vowel\|ʌ]]]
	\| style="border-left: 0;" \| [[w:Open-mid back rounded vowel\|ɔ]]		\| style="border-left: 0;" \| [[w:Open-mid back rounded vowel\|ɔ]]
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	Stress is unpredictable in Liðakuin. It usually falls on "long" vowels, specifically one of /æ aj e o i uy/, but can fall on any vowel.		Stress is unpredictable in Liðakuin. It usually falls on "long" vowels, specifically one of /æ aj e o i uy/, but can fall on any vowel.

	Liðakuin speakers also tend to reduce some or all of the vowels /a i y u uɥ e ei o ou/ to [ɐ ɪ ʏ ʊ ʉ ɛ e ɔ o] when unstressed. This results in /e ɛ/ and /o ɔ/ to be merged in unstressed position. For more details, see [[Dialects of Liðakuin]].		Liðakuin speakers also tend to reduce some or all of the vowels /a i y u uɥ e ei o ou/ to weaker qualities, like [ɐ ɪ ʏ ʊ ʉ ɛ e ɔ o], when unstressed. This near-universally results in /e ɛ/ and /o ɔ/ to be merged in unstressed position. For more details, see [[Dialects of Liðakuin]].

	==Phonotactics==		==Phonotactics==
	The maximal syllable structure in Liðakuin is CCVCC. Liðakuin generally abhors hiatus that does not occur at word boundaries - that is, within the same word, two vowels are not allowed to touch, and compounded words or affixed words that would result in two vowels touching frequently have a consonant inserted between them, such as a sonorant or the otherwise non-phonemic glottal stop. This inserted consonant is epenthetic and is rarely written orthographically, and is also one of the key differences between different dialects of Liðakuin.		The maximal syllable structure in Liðakuin is CCVCC. Liðakuin generally abhors hiatus that does not occur at word boundaries - that is, within the same word, two vowels are not allowed to touch, and compounded words or affixed words that would result in two vowels touching frequently have a consonant inserted between them, such as a sonorant or the otherwise non-phonemic glottal stop. This inserted consonant is epenthetic and is rarely written orthographically, and is also one of the key differences between different dialects of Liðakuin.

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	Additionally, most of the palatal phones occur as a result of palatalization - in Limban Liðakuin, a /i j/ turns preceding [n t d k g x ɣ s z ts dz l] into [ɲ tɕ dʑ c ɟ ç ç ɕ ʑ tɕ dʑ ʎ]. However, not all of the latter group of phones can be considered nonphonemic by this rule - specifically, [ç ɕ ʑ tɕ dʑ] occur in environments where an inserted /j/ does not otherwise occur in Liðakuin, and [ç] in particular is written one of three ways in the native script, one of which corresponds nicely to /xj/ and another to /ɣj/, as both only occur following back vowels (the environments where /j/ is allowed after other phonemes), but one method cannot correspond to either /xj/ or /ɣj/.		Additionally, most of the palatal phones occur as a result of palatalization - in Limban Liðakuin, a /i j/ turns preceding [n t d k g x ɣ s z ts dz l] into [ɲ tɕ dʑ c ɟ ç ç ɕ ʑ tɕ dʑ ʎ]. However, not all of the latter group of phones can be considered nonphonemic by this rule - specifically, [ç ɕ ʑ tɕ dʑ] occur in environments where an inserted /j/ does not otherwise occur in Liðakuin, and [ç] in particular is written one of three ways in the native script, one of which corresponds nicely to /xj/ and another to /ɣj/, as both only occur following back vowels (the environments where /j/ is allowed after other phonemes), but one method cannot correspond to either /xj/ or /ɣj/.

	This method of using orthography to help inform phonology can also be used to absorb certain clusters, specifically the pre-aspirated plosives [hp ht hc hk] (also written as a single consonant with a diacritic, [ʰp ʰt ʰc ʰk]) and the lateral affricate [tɬ]. These are always written as if they were [pp tt cc kk ɬɬ], rather than writing them like they were [xp xt xc xk tɬ] in a similar vein to /ɬ ç r̥/, and since all fricatives can also be geminated, these are generally considered to be equivalent. This is another reason why the aspirated plosives are the ones considered non-phonemic, as otherwise the aspirated plosives would lose their post-aspiration to become pre-aspiration, which seems less parsimonious than an originally unaspirated voiceless plosive gaining either pre-aspiration or post-aspiration depending on the environment.		This method of using orthography to help inform phonology can also be used to absorb certain clusters, specifically the pre-aspirated plosives [hp ht hc hk] (also written as a single consonant with a diacritic, [ʰp ʰt ʰc ʰk]) and the lateral affricate [tɬ]. These are always written as if they were [pp tt cc kk ɬɬ], rather than writing them like they were [xp xt xc xk tɬ] in a similar vein to /ɬ ç r̥/, and since all voiced plosives and all fricatives can also be geminated, these are generally considered to be equivalent. This is another reason why the aspirated plosives are the ones considered non-phonemic, as otherwise the aspirated plosives would lose their post-aspiration to become pre-aspiration, which seems less parsimonious than an originally unaspirated voiceless plosive gaining either pre-aspiration or post-aspiration depending on the environment.

	In Limban Liðakuin, the velarized alveolar lateral approximant [ɫ] is only found in the coda of syllables, especially when the preceding vowel is front, and the labiovelar approximant [w] is only found after another consonant. Both are therefore in complementary distribution with [l ʋ] respectively. This completes the final phonemic consonant table for Liðakuin:		In Limban Liðakuin, the velarized alveolar lateral approximant [ɫ] is only found in the coda of syllables, especially when the preceding vowel is front, and the labiovelar approximant [w] is only found after another consonant. Both are therefore in complementary distribution with [l ʋ] respectively. This completes the final phonemic consonant table for Liðakuin:
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	==Vowels==		==Vowels==

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Stress

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	Stress is unpredictable in Liðakuin. It usually falls on "long" vowels, specifically one of /æ aj e o i uy/, but can fall on any vowel.		Stress is unpredictable in Liðakuin. It usually falls on "long" vowels, specifically one of /æ aj e o i uy/, but can fall on any vowel.

	Liðakuin speakers also tend to reduce the vowels /a i y u uɥ ei ou/ to [ɐ ɪ ʏ ʊ ʉ ɛ e ɔ o] when unstressed. This results in /e ɛ/ and /o ɔ/ to be merged in unstressed position.		Liðakuin speakers also tend to reduce some or all of the vowels /a i y u uɥ e ei o ou/ to [ɐ ɪ ʏ ʊ ʉ ɛ e ɔ o] when unstressed. This results in /e ɛ/ and /o ɔ/ to be merged in unstressed position. For more details, see [[Dialects of Liðakuin]].

	==Phonotactics==		==Phonotactics==
	The maximal syllable structure in Liðakuin is CCVCC. Liðakuin generally abhors hiatus that does not occur at word boundaries - that is, within the same word, two vowels are not allowed to touch, and compounded words or affixed words that would result in two vowels touching frequently have a consonant inserted between them, such as a sonorant or the otherwise non-phonemic glottal stop. This inserted consonant is epenthetic and is rarely written orthographically, and is also one of the key differences between different dialects of Liðakuin.		The maximal syllable structure in Liðakuin is CCVCC. Liðakuin generally abhors hiatus that does not occur at word boundaries - that is, within the same word, two vowels are not allowed to touch, and compounded words or affixed words that would result in two vowels touching frequently have a consonant inserted between them, such as a sonorant or the otherwise non-phonemic glottal stop. This inserted consonant is epenthetic and is rarely written orthographically, and is also one of the key differences between different dialects of Liðakuin.

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	! Diphthongs		! Diphthongs
	\| colspan="6" \| ju jo jɔ ja ɵj [~~ao ɛo eo~~]		\| colspan="6" \| ju jo jɔ ja ɵj [aŏ ɛŏ eŏ iŏ]
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Vowels

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	\| style="border-right: 0;" \| [[w:Close front unrounded vowel\|i]]		\| style="border-right: 0;" \| [[w:Close front unrounded vowel\|i]]
	\| style="border-left: 0;" \| [[w:Close front rounded vowel\|y]] uɥ		\| style="border-left: 0;" \| [[w:Close front rounded vowel\|y]] uɥ
	\| style="border-right: 0;" \| [[[w:Close central unrounded vowel\|ɨ]]]		\| style="border-right: 0;" \| [[[w:Close central unrounded vowel\|ɨ]]]
	\| style="border-left: 0;" \|		\| style="border-left: 0;" \|
	\| style="border-right: 0;" \| [[[w:Close back unrounded vowel\|ɯ]]]		\| style="border-right: 0;" \| [[[w:Close back unrounded vowel\|ɯ]]]
	\| style="border-left: 0;" \| [[w:Close back rounded vowel\|u]]		\| style="border-left: 0;" \| [[w:Close back rounded vowel\|u]]
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	\| style="border-left: 0;" \| [[w:Close-mid front rounded vowel\|ø]]		\| style="border-left: 0;" \| [[w:Close-mid front rounded vowel\|ø]]
	\| style="border-right: 0;" \| [[w:Mid central vowel\|ə]]		\| style="border-right: 0;" \| [[w:Mid central vowel\|ə]]
	\| style="border-left: 0;" \|		\| style="border-left: 0;" \| [[[w:Close-mid central rounded vowel\|ɵ̞]]]
	\| style="border-right: 0;" \|		\| style="border-right: 0;" \|
	\| style="border-left: 0;" \| [[w:Close-mid back rounded vowel\|ow]] [o]		\| style="border-left: 0;" \| [[w:Close-mid back rounded vowel\|ow]] [o]

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This article describes the phonology of [[Liðakuin]].

==Dialectal variation==
{{main|Dialects of Liðakuin}}
Liðakuin is the official language of the Fenril Federation, a very large country of North (and South) Gomensai. As a result, there are a great many dialects. The standard dialect is known as Limban, and will be the primary dialect under discussion for the rest of this article.

==Consonants==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Consonant phones in Limban Liðakuin
|-
! colspan="2" |
! colspan="6" | [[w:Labial consonant|Labial]]
! colspan="6" | [[w:Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! colspan="6" | [[w:Velar consonant|Palatal]]
! colspan="6" | [[w:Uvular consonant|Velar]]
|-
! colspan="2" | [[w:Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| colspan="6" | [[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|m]]
| colspan="6" | [[w:Voiced alveolar nasal|n]]
| colspan="6" | [[w:Voiced palatal nasal|ɲ]]
| colspan="6" | [[w:Voiced velar nasal|ŋ]]
|-
! colspan="2" | [[w:stop consonant|Stop]]
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="2" | [[w:Voiceless bilabial stop|pʰ]]
| style="border-right: 0; border-left: 0;" colspan="2" | p
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced bilabial stop|b]]
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="2" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar stop|tʰ]]
| style="border-right: 0; border-left: 0;" colspan="2" | t
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced alveolar stop|d]]
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="2" | [[w:Voiceless palatal stop|cʰ]]
| style="border-right: 0; border-left: 0;" colspan="2" | c
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced palatal stop|ɟ]]
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="2" | [[w:Voiceless velar stop|kʰ]]
| style="border-right: 0; border-left: 0;" colspan="2" | k
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced velar stop|g]]
|-
! colspan="2" | [[w:affricate consonant|Affricate]]
| colspan="6" |
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar affricate|ts]]
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiced alveolar affricate|dz]]
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate|tɕ]]
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate|dʑ]]
| colspan="6" |
|-
! rowspan="3" | [[w:stop consonant|Fricative]]
! plain
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiceless labiolingual fricative|f]]
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" |
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar fricative|θ̠ ]]
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiced alveolar fricative|ð̠]]
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiceless palatal fricative|ç]]
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" |
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiceless velar fricative|x]]
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiced velar fricative|ɣ]]
|-
! sibilant
| colspan="6" |
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar sibilant fricative|s]]
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiced alveolar sibilant fricative|z]]
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative|ɕ]]
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative|ʑ]]
| colspan="6" |
|-
! [[w:lateral consonant|lateral]]
| colspan="6" |
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative|ɬ]]
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiced alveolar lateral affricate|tɬ]]
| colspan="6" |
| colspan="6" |
|-
! colspan="2" | [[w:approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" |
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiced labiolingual approximant|ʋ]]
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" |
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiced alveolar lateral approximant|l]]
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiced palatal approximant|j]]
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiced palatal lateral approximant|ʎ]]
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiced labial-velar approximant|w]]
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" | ɫ
|-
! colspan="2" | [[w:trill consonant|Trill]]
| colspan="6" |
| style="border-right: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar trill|r̥]]
| style="border-left: 0;" colspan="3" | [[w:Voiced alveolar trill|r]]
| colspan="6" |
| colspan="6" |
|}

In Liðakuin, only two of the three stop phones in each place of articulation is said to be phonemic, as only two graphemes are used for each (/k g/ have two graphemes, but this is unrelated to aspiration). However, it is not entirely clear exactly which of the three phones should be considered nonphonemic due to allophonic considerations. One analysis is to remove the unvoiced aspirated plosives, considering them allophonic to the unvoiced unaspirated plosives before vowels and approximants. However, adjacent to voiceless fricatives and the voiceless trill /r̥/, voiced plosives do not occur in Limban Liðakuin, devoicing to the plain plosives, offering credence to removing the voiced plosives and considering them allophonic to the plain plosives. Since most Liðakuin dialects do maintain the voiced plosives intervocalically, if not additionally adjacent to voiced consonants, the former is preferred.

Additionally, most of the palatal phones occur as a result of palatalization - in Limban Liðakuin, a /i j/ turns preceding [n t d k g x ɣ s z ts dz l] into [ɲ tɕ dʑ c ɟ ç ç ɕ ʑ tɕ dʑ ʎ]. However, not all of the latter group of phones can be considered nonphonemic by this rule - specifically, [ç ɕ ʑ tɕ dʑ] occur in environments where an inserted /j/ does not otherwise occur in Liðakuin, and [ç] in particular is written one of three ways in the native script, one of which corresponds nicely to /xj/ and another to /ɣj/, as both only occur following back vowels (the environments where /j/ is allowed after other phonemes), but one method cannot correspond to either /xj/ or /ɣj/.

This method of using orthography to help inform phonology can also be used to absorb certain clusters, specifically the pre-aspirated plosives [hp ht hc hk] (also written as a single consonant with a diacritic, [ʰp ʰt ʰc ʰk]) and the lateral affricate [tɬ]. These are always written as if they were [pp tt cc kk ɬɬ], rather than writing them like they were [xp xt xc xk tɬ] in a similar vein to /ɬ ç r̥/, and since all fricatives can also be geminated, these are generally considered to be equivalent. This is another reason why the aspirated plosives are the ones considered non-phonemic, as otherwise the aspirated plosives would lose their post-aspiration to become pre-aspiration, which seems less parsimonious than an originally unaspirated voiceless plosive gaining either pre-aspiration or post-aspiration depending on the environment.

In Limban Liðakuin, the velarized alveolar lateral approximant [ɫ] is only found in the coda of syllables, especially when the preceding vowel is front, and the labiovelar approximant [w] is only found after another consonant. Both are therefore in complementary distribution with [l ʋ] respectively. This completes the final phonemic consonant table for Liðakuin:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Consonant phonemes in Limban Liðakuin
|-
! colspan="2" |
! colspan="2" | [[w:Labial consonant|Labial]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Velar consonant|Palatal]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Uvular consonant|Velar]]
|-
! colspan="2" | [[w:Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|m]]
| colspan="2" | [[w:Voiced alveolar nasal|n]]
| colspan="2" | ([[w:Voiced palatal nasal|ɲ]])
| colspan="2" | ([[w:Voiced velar nasal|ŋ]])
|-
! colspan="2" | [[w:stop consonant|Stop]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless bilabial stop|p]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced bilabial stop|b]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar stop|t]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar stop|d]]
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless velar stop|k]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced velar stop|g]]
|-
! colspan="2" | [[w:affricate consonant|Affricate]]
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar affricate|ts]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar affricate|dz]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate|tɕ]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate|dʑ]]
| colspan="2" |
|-
! rowspan="3" | [[w:stop consonant|Fricative]]
! plain
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless labiolingual fricative|f]]
| style="border-left: 0;" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar fricative|θ̠ ]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar fricative|ð̠]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless palatal fricative|ç]]
| style="border-left: 0;" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless velar fricative|x]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced velar fricative|ɣ]]
|-
! sibilant
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar sibilant fricative|s]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar sibilant fricative|z]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative|ɕ]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant fricative|ʑ]]
| colspan="2" |
|-
! [[w:lateral consonant|lateral]]
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative|ɬ]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar lateral affricate|tɬ]]
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|-
! colspan="2" | [[w:approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| style="border-right: 0;" |
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced labiolingual approximant|ʋ]]
| style="border-right: 0;" |
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar lateral approximant|l]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiced palatal approximant|j]]
| style="border-left: 0;" |
| style="border-right: 0;" |
| style="border-left: 0;" |
|-
! colspan="2" | [[w:trill consonant|Trill]]
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar trill|r̥]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar trill|r]]
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|}

==Vowels==
Phonemes not in Limban Liðakuin but that are in other Liðakuin dialects are in brackets.
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Vowel phonemes
|-
! rowspan="2" |
! colspan="2" | [[w:Front vowel|Front]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Central vowel|Central]]
! colspan="3" | [[w:Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! unrounded
! rounded
! unrounded
! rounded
! unrounded
! rounded
|-
! [[w:Close vowel|Close]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|i]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Close front rounded vowel|y]] uɥ
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[[w:Close central unrounded vowel|ɨ]]]
| style="border-left: 0;" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[[w:Close back unrounded vowel|ɯ]]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Close back rounded vowel|u]]
|-
! [[w:Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Close-mid front unrounded vowel|e]] [ej]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Close-mid front rounded vowel|ø]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Mid central vowel|ə]]
| style="border-left: 0;" |
| style="border-right: 0;" |
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Close-mid back rounded vowel|ow]] [o]
|-
! [[w:Open-mid vowel|Open-mid]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Open-mid front unrounded vowel|ɛ]]
| style="border-left: 0;" |
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Open-mid back unrounded vowel|ʌ]]
| style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Open-mid back rounded vowel|ɔ]]
|-
! [[w:Open-mid vowel|Open]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Near-open front unrounded vowel|æ]]
| style="border-left: 0;" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Open front unrounded vowel|a]] aj
| style="border-left: 0;" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | ɑw
| style="border-left: 0;" |
|-
! Diphthongs
| colspan="6" | ju jo jɔ ja ɵj [ao ɛo eo]
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Liðakuin vowels are in some ways simpler than consonants - the effects of the environment on vowels are simpler and more pronounced. Some of this will be discussed in the Stress section, as they are stress-related.

Interestingly, /ə/ undergoes a form of vowel harmony in Limban Liðakuin, turning into [ɵ̞] when the next vowel is rounded. /ɵ̞/ is still considered diaphonemic, however, as in Limban Liðakuin, the two phonemes merged into one in this manner.



==Stress==
Liðakuin is a dynamic-accent language. Stressed syllables are louder and longer than non-stressed syllables. Additionally, several of the vowel phonemes are laxened in unstressed syllables.

Stress is unpredictable in Liðakuin. It usually falls on "long" vowels, specifically one of /æ aj e o i uy/, but can fall on any vowel.

Liðakuin speakers also tend to reduce the vowels /a i y u uɥ ei ou/ to [ɐ ɪ ʏ ʊ ʉ ɛ e ɔ o] when unstressed. This results in /e ɛ/ and /o ɔ/ to be merged in unstressed position.

==Phonotactics==
The maximal syllable structure in Liðakuin is CCVCC. Liðakuin generally abhors hiatus that does not occur at word boundaries - that is, within the same word, two vowels are not allowed to touch, and compounded words or affixed words that would result in two vowels touching frequently have a consonant inserted between them, such as a sonorant or the otherwise non-phonemic glottal stop. This inserted consonant is epenthetic and is rarely written orthographically, and is also one of the key differences between different dialects of Liðakuin.