Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
11 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | · | td | · | |||
| Nasal | · | n | · | |||
| Trill | · | r | · | |||
| Fricative | θð | sz | ʃʒ | |||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | |||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | · |
| Open | a | · | ɒ |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(C)Phonological Rules
θ and ð do not exist in their pure dental form, only as alveolar fricates: θ̠ and ð̠ /n/ → [n̥] / #_
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 181 transcribed dictionary entries (693 total tokens)
/r/
75 (10.8%)
/s/
69 (10%)
/l/
67 (9.7%)
/a/
66 (9.5%)
/n/
62 (8.9%)
/ɛ/
56 (8.1%)
/d/
55 (7.9%)
/e/
51 (7.4%)
/i/
46 (6.6%)
/t/
45 (6.5%)
/ɒ/
29 (4.2%)
/æ/
17 (2.5%)
/ʒ/
15 (2.2%)
/z/
14 (2%)
/ɐ/
13 (1.9%)
/n̥/
7 (1%)
/ʃ/
3 (0.4%)
/θ̠/
2 (0.3%)
/ð̠/
1 (0.1%)