Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

16 consonants
6 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
r
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
s
·
·
h
Approximant
·
·
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
iy
·
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open··
ɑ

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 106 transcribed dictionary entries (601 total tokens)

/ɑ/
103 (17.1%)
/t/
70 (11.6%)
/m/
43 (7.2%)
/u/
42 (7%)
/o/
37 (6.2%)
/n/
32 (5.3%)
/k/
31 (5.2%)
/i/
30 (5%)
/r/
30 (5%)
/l/
26 (4.3%)
/e/
24 (4%)
/d/
21 (3.5%)
/s/
20 (3.3%)
/j/
18 (3%)
/g/
16 (2.7%)
/f/
14 (2.3%)
/b/
14 (2.3%)
/h/
9 (1.5%)
/y/
8 (1.3%)
/v/
6 (1%)
/w/
3 (0.5%)
/p/
3 (0.5%)
/ks/
1 (0.2%)