Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
21 consonants
12 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | ɹ | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 120 transcribed dictionary entries (523 total tokens)
/a/
44 (8.4%)
/ɹ/
43 (8.2%)
/ɛ/
40 (7.6%)
/n/
30 (5.7%)
/k/
29 (5.5%)
/l/
29 (5.5%)
/s/
28 (5.4%)
/m/
27 (5.2%)
/i/
26 (5%)
/t/
25 (4.8%)
/e/
20 (3.8%)
/ɪ/
20 (3.8%)
/d/
19 (3.6%)
/v/
17 (3.3%)
/o/
16 (3.1%)
/j/
13 (2.5%)
/f/
12 (2.3%)
/aɪ/
9 (1.7%)
/θ/
9 (1.7%)
/h/
9 (1.7%)
/u/
8 (1.5%)
/ø/
6 (1.1%)
/p/
6 (1.1%)
/g/
5 (1%)
/x/
5 (1%)
/æ/
5 (1%)
/ʃ/
5 (1%)
/z/
4 (0.8%)
/y/
4 (0.8%)
/b/
3 (0.6%)