Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
28 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | c | kg | · | ʔ | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | ɲ | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | f | θð | sz | ʃʒ | ʝ | x | ʁ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | ts | tʃ | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | · | · | · | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 238 transcribed dictionary entries (1,157 total tokens)
/e/
215 (18.6%)
/a/
169 (14.6%)
/g/
87 (7.5%)
/ɾ/
56 (4.8%)
/o/
51 (4.4%)
/m/
50 (4.3%)
/s/
50 (4.3%)
/t/
46 (4%)
/i/
39 (3.4%)
/n/
38 (3.3%)
/k/
34 (2.9%)
/tʃ/
33 (2.9%)
/l/
33 (2.9%)
/ʋ/
31 (2.7%)
/ð/
28 (2.4%)
/z/
26 (2.2%)
/x/
21 (1.8%)
/h/
21 (1.8%)
/p/
19 (1.6%)
/w/
19 (1.6%)
/u/
16 (1.4%)
/f/
16 (1.4%)
/b/
11 (1%)
/θ/
10 (0.9%)
/ʝ/
10 (0.9%)
/æ/
6 (0.5%)
/y/
6 (0.5%)
/ʃ/
5 (0.4%)
/c/
4 (0.3%)
/ts/
3 (0.3%)