Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

23 consonants
6 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
·
kɡ
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
ɲ
ŋ
·
Fricative
·
fv
sz
ʃ
·
ɣ
ɦ
Affricate
·
·
·
tʃdʒ
·
·
·
Approximant
·
·
ɹ
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
·
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open-mid
ɛ
··
Open
a
··

Syllable Structure

(V)CV

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 522 transcribed dictionary entries (2,110 total tokens)

/b/
208 (9.9%)
/z/
177 (8.4%)
/a˧/
175 (8.3%)
/a˥/
95 (4.5%)
/˥/
84 (4%)
/ʃ/
84 (4%)
/n/
83 (3.9%)
/e˧/
79 (3.7%)
/f/
73 (3.5%)
/i˥/
72 (3.4%)
/w/
65 (3.1%)
/i˧/
61 (2.9%)
/u˧/
59 (2.8%)
/a˩/
56 (2.7%)
/e˥/
56 (2.7%)
/ɹ/
55 (2.6%)
/m/
52 (2.5%)
/d/
48 (2.3%)
/i˩/
45 (2.1%)
/ɛ˧/
41 (1.9%)
/j/
40 (1.9%)
/˩/
40 (1.9%)
/o˧/
39 (1.8%)
/l/
32 (1.5%)
/ɲ/
30 (1.4%)
/ɛ˥/
26 (1.2%)
/ɦ/
24 (1.1%)
/e˩/
23 (1.1%)
/ŋ/
23 (1.1%)
/s/
20 (0.9%)