Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

19 consonants
9 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
·
td
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
·
r
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
θð
sz
·
·
h
Approximant
·
·
·
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
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%)