Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
4 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | · | · | td | · | · | k | q | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | f | θð | sz | ʃʒ | · | ɣ | · | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | ɹ | · | j | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 46 transcribed dictionary entries (188 total tokens)
/e/
28 (14.9%)
/a/
20 (10.6%)
/u/
20 (10.6%)
/n/
16 (8.5%)
/m/
14 (7.4%)
/i/
13 (6.9%)
/ɹ/
13 (6.9%)
/t/
12 (6.4%)
/k/
8 (4.3%)
/d/
7 (3.7%)
/s/
7 (3.7%)
/b/
6 (3.2%)
/l/
5 (2.7%)
/ɣ/
3 (1.6%)
/f/
3 (1.6%)
/h/
2 (1.1%)
/z/
2 (1.1%)
/θ/
2 (1.1%)
/j/
2 (1.1%)
/w/
1 (0.5%)
/ks/
1 (0.5%)
/ʃ/
1 (0.5%)
/ð/
1 (0.5%)
/qʷ/
1 (0.5%)