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 321 transcribed dictionary entries (1,683 total tokens)
/a/
162 (9.6%)
/ɹ/
138 (8.2%)
/n/
119 (7.1%)
/k/
112 (6.7%)
/l/
111 (6.6%)
/t/
92 (5.5%)
/s/
86 (5.1%)
/ɛ/
83 (4.9%)
/e/
81 (4.8%)
/v/
54 (3.2%)
/o/
53 (3.1%)
/m/
52 (3.1%)
/j/
51 (3%)
/d/
50 (3%)
/i/
47 (2.8%)
/ɪ/
45 (2.7%)
/ʃ/
38 (2.3%)
/ø/
30 (1.8%)
/u/
26 (1.5%)
/f/
25 (1.5%)
/aɪ/
23 (1.4%)
/aː/
22 (1.3%)
/x/
22 (1.3%)
/h/
22 (1.3%)
/b/
20 (1.2%)
/θ/
19 (1.1%)
/g/
16 (1%)
/y/
14 (0.8%)
/p/
13 (0.8%)
/æ/
12 (0.7%)