Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
18 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | · | td | · | · | k | q | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | · | · | · | ʜ | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | ɺ | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | s | ʃʒ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | ɬ | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | ɹ | · | j | ɰ | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close-mid | eø | ɘɵ | ɤo |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 354 transcribed dictionary entries (1,128 total tokens)
/ø/
85 (7.5%)
/ɺ/
72 (6.4%)
/w/
69 (6.1%)
/j/
68 (6%)
/m/
68 (6%)
/ǀ/
67 (5.9%)
/e/
55 (4.9%)
/ʜ/
54 (4.8%)
/ɛ/
54 (4.8%)
/ɔ/
50 (4.4%)
/ɘ/
49 (4.3%)
/ɵ/
49 (4.3%)
/n/
45 (4%)
/o/
44 (3.9%)
/l/
43 (3.8%)
/ɰ/
39 (3.5%)
/ɹ/
38 (3.4%)
/ɤ/
34 (3%)
/l̥/
25 (2.2%)
/ŋ/
24 (2.1%)
/j̊/
24 (2.1%)
/ɺ̥/
19 (1.7%)
/w̥/
16 (1.4%)
/kʼ/
16 (1.4%)
/tʼ/
11 (1%)
/qʼ/
10 (0.9%)