Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
22 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | ɟ | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | v | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | ʎ | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Mid | e̞ | · | · |
| Open-mid | · | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 379 transcribed dictionary entries (1,812 total tokens)
/a/
287 (15.8%)
/e̞/
155 (8.6%)
/k/
118 (6.5%)
/i/
104 (5.7%)
/n/
97 (5.4%)
/ɾ/
93 (5.1%)
/u/
90 (5%)
/s/
76 (4.2%)
/d/
76 (4.2%)
/t/
68 (3.8%)
/ɑ/
59 (3.3%)
/ɔ/
58 (3.2%)
/m/
56 (3.1%)
/ɪ/
55 (3%)
/g/
48 (2.6%)
/l/
44 (2.4%)
/v/
40 (2.2%)
/x/
40 (2.2%)
/z/
37 (2%)
/ʒ/
36 (2%)
/p/
34 (1.9%)
/h/
28 (1.5%)
/b/
25 (1.4%)
/w/
25 (1.4%)
/ɟ/
24 (1.3%)
/ʃ/
17 (0.9%)
/ɲ/
10 (0.6%)
/ʎ/
6 (0.3%)
/ŋ/
6 (0.3%)