Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
23 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | hɦ | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 149 transcribed dictionary entries (440 total tokens)
/e/
60 (13.6%)
/a/
51 (11.6%)
/n/
31 (7%)
/r/
30 (6.8%)
/l/
28 (6.4%)
/z/
24 (5.5%)
/m/
21 (4.8%)
/o/
20 (4.5%)
/y/
14 (3.2%)
/d/
13 (3%)
/k/
12 (2.7%)
/u/
12 (2.7%)
/s/
11 (2.5%)
/b/
11 (2.5%)
/i/
10 (2.3%)
/t/
10 (2.3%)
/ai/
9 (2%)
/ʒ/
9 (2%)
/h/
7 (1.6%)
/pʰ/
7 (1.6%)
/p/
7 (1.6%)
/kʰ/
7 (1.6%)
/v/
5 (1.1%)
/g/
4 (0.9%)
/tʰ/
4 (0.9%)
/θ/
3 (0.7%)
/ŋ/
3 (0.7%)
/ʃ/
3 (0.7%)
/f/
3 (0.7%)
/ei/
3 (0.7%)