Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | · | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | s | ʒ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | ʎ | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Near-open | · | ɐ | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 351 transcribed dictionary entries (2,071 total tokens)
/o/
407 (19.7%)
/ɔ/
258 (12.5%)
/v/
257 (12.4%)
/u/
185 (8.9%)
/ʒ/
140 (6.8%)
/t/
137 (6.6%)
/i/
124 (6%)
/e/
93 (4.5%)
/f/
81 (3.9%)
/ɛ/
66 (3.2%)
/ʎ/
58 (2.8%)
/a/
41 (2%)
/d/
36 (1.7%)
/n/
30 (1.4%)
/l/
27 (1.3%)
/ɲ/
23 (1.1%)
/õ/
21 (1%)
/ɾ/
18 (0.9%)
/ũ/
16 (0.8%)
/ɐ̃/
10 (0.5%)
/k/
9 (0.4%)
/m/
7 (0.3%)
/h/
7 (0.3%)
/ĩ/
5 (0.2%)
/g/
4 (0.2%)
/s/
4 (0.2%)
/p/
3 (0.1%)
/b/
3 (0.1%)
/ẽ/
1 (0%)