Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʒ | · | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | ɹ | · | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | · | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ʌ |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
(C)CV(C)(V)(C)Phonological Rules
/s/ → [z] / V_V /f/ → [v] / V_V
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 37 transcribed dictionary entries (109 total tokens)
/n/
12 (11%)
/ɛ/
10 (9.2%)
/d/
8 (7.3%)
/u/
8 (7.3%)
/e/
8 (7.3%)
/t/
7 (6.4%)
/ɹ/
6 (5.5%)
/a/
6 (5.5%)
/s/
6 (5.5%)
/g/
5 (4.6%)
/l/
4 (3.7%)
/ɑ/
4 (3.7%)
/w/
4 (3.7%)
/o/
4 (3.7%)
/h/
3 (2.8%)
/v/
3 (2.8%)
/b/
3 (2.8%)
/f/
2 (1.8%)
/k/
1 (0.9%)
/ʌ/
1 (0.9%)
/ʒ/
1 (0.9%)
/m/
1 (0.9%)
/kʲ/
1 (0.9%)
/z/
1 (0.9%)