Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
22 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | q | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | |||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʒ | · | · | · | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | ts | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 49 transcribed dictionary entries (230 total tokens)
/a/
42 (18.3%)
/e/
28 (12.2%)
/i/
14 (6.1%)
/k/
13 (5.7%)
/o/
11 (4.8%)
/t/
10 (4.3%)
/m/
10 (4.3%)
/n/
9 (3.9%)
/ã/
9 (3.9%)
/s/
9 (3.9%)
/w/
8 (3.5%)
/g/
7 (3%)
/r/
7 (3%)
/d/
7 (3%)
/f/
6 (2.6%)
/l/
5 (2.2%)
/θ/
5 (2.2%)
/u/
5 (2.2%)
/ʒ/
5 (2.2%)
/b/
4 (1.7%)
/ts/
4 (1.7%)
/p/
3 (1.3%)
/ŋ/
2 (0.9%)
/v/
2 (0.9%)
/ẽ/
2 (0.9%)
/h/
1 (0.4%)
/õ/
1 (0.4%)
/ĩ/
1 (0.4%)