Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | sz | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Open-mid | · | · | ʌ |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 265 transcribed dictionary entries (930 total tokens)
/e/
190 (20.4%)
/n/
69 (7.4%)
/l/
68 (7.3%)
/s/
63 (6.8%)
/k/
59 (6.3%)
/ɪ/
56 (6%)
/r/
46 (4.9%)
/o/
43 (4.6%)
/t/
38 (4.1%)
/m/
34 (3.7%)
/i/
34 (3.7%)
/j/
33 (3.5%)
/h/
32 (3.4%)
/v/
24 (2.6%)
/d/
23 (2.5%)
/g/
22 (2.4%)
/b/
21 (2.3%)
/ø/
19 (2%)
/ð/
12 (1.3%)
/p/
12 (1.3%)
/θ/
10 (1.1%)
/z/
9 (1%)
/w/
7 (0.8%)
/f/
6 (0.6%)