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 40 transcribed dictionary entries (143 total tokens)
/a/
13 (9.1%)
/ɛ/
13 (9.1%)
/m/
12 (8.4%)
/n/
12 (8.4%)
/ɹ/
11 (7.7%)
/e/
11 (7.7%)
/ɪ/
8 (5.6%)
/d/
7 (4.9%)
/s/
6 (4.2%)
/k/
5 (3.5%)
/l/
5 (3.5%)
/i/
5 (3.5%)
/t/
5 (3.5%)
/j/
3 (2.1%)
/ø/
3 (2.1%)
/g/
2 (1.4%)
/u/
2 (1.4%)
/f/
2 (1.4%)
/p/
2 (1.4%)
/v/
2 (1.4%)
/h/
2 (1.4%)
/ʃ/
2 (1.4%)
/y/
2 (1.4%)
/aɪ/
1 (0.7%)
/ɔɪ/
1 (0.7%)
/x/
1 (0.7%)
/aʊ/
1 (0.7%)
/z/
1 (0.7%)
/eɪ/
1 (0.7%)
/θ/
1 (0.7%)