Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

21 consonants
12 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
·
td
·
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
θ
sz
ʃʒ
·
x
h
Approximant
·
·
·
ɹ
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
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%)
//
23 (1.4%)
//
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%)