Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | t | · | · | k | ʔ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | · | ʃ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(V)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 10 transcribed dictionary entries (36 total tokens)
/a/
7 (19.4%)
/u/
4 (11.1%)
/t/
3 (8.3%)
/o/
3 (8.3%)
/l/
3 (8.3%)
/i/
3 (8.3%)
/ʔ/
2 (5.6%)
/ɾ/
2 (5.6%)
/f/
2 (5.6%)
/v/
2 (5.6%)
/aː/
1 (2.8%)
/m/
1 (2.8%)
/n/
1 (2.8%)
/ŋ/
1 (2.8%)
/h/
1 (2.8%)