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Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

17 consonants
8 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
·
td
·
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
·
r
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
θ
s
ʃ
·
·
h
Approximant
·
·
·
·
·
j
·
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
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%)
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