Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | s | ʃ | · | · | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C), (C)VV(C)Phonological Rules
sh → ʃ / _ th → θ / _ y → j / _ ai → aɪ / _ ae → aɛ / _ ei → eɪ / _ ou → oʊ / _ aa → aː / _
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 396 transcribed dictionary entries (2,149 total tokens)
/a/
521 (24.2%)
/o/
211 (9.8%)
/i/
184 (8.6%)
/r/
182 (8.5%)
/s/
137 (6.4%)
/l/
135 (6.3%)
/k/
122 (5.7%)
/m/
116 (5.4%)
/n/
113 (5.3%)
/t/
90 (4.2%)
/ɛ/
86 (4%)
/v/
71 (3.3%)
/u/
53 (2.5%)
/h/
44 (2%)
/d/
33 (1.5%)
/p/
28 (1.3%)
/b/
14 (0.7%)
/j/
4 (0.2%)
/ʃ/
3 (0.1%)
/θ/
1 (0%)
/f/
1 (0%)