Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
24 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | ɹ | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 4801 transcribed dictionary entries (26,780 total tokens)
/i/
2,517 (9.4%)
/t/
2,228 (8.3%)
/o/
2,059 (7.7%)
/n/
2,046 (7.6%)
/a/
2,013 (7.5%)
/l/
1,665 (6.2%)
/s/
1,571 (5.9%)
/e/
1,570 (5.9%)
/ɹ/
1,514 (5.7%)
/ʃ/
1,512 (5.6%)
/u/
1,159 (4.3%)
/d/
1,076 (4%)
/m/
703 (2.6%)
/p/
697 (2.6%)
/b/
627 (2.3%)
/k/
579 (2.2%)
/ʒ/
470 (1.8%)
/f/
470 (1.8%)
/θ/
441 (1.6%)
/ŋ/
374 (1.4%)
/z/
285 (1.1%)
/g/
268 (1%)
/v/
260 (1%)
/w/
207 (0.8%)
/h/
174 (0.6%)
/j/
142 (0.5%)
/ð/
139 (0.5%)
/ks/
14 (0.1%)