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Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

19 consonants
6 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPostalveolarRetroflexVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
·
ŋ
·
Fricative
·
f
sz
ɕʒ
ʂ
·
h
Approximant
·
·
·
·
·
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
·
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open-mid
ɛ
··
Open
a
··

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 56 transcribed dictionary entries (159 total tokens)

/n/
13 (8.2%)
/a˥/
12 (7.5%)
/a/
12 (7.5%)
/i˥/
10 (6.3%)
/d/
10 (6.3%)
/h/
9 (5.7%)
/u˥/
7 (4.4%)
/ŋ/
7 (4.4%)
/i/
7 (4.4%)
/b/
6 (3.8%)
/ʃ/
6 (3.8%)
/a˨/
6 (3.8%)
/o/
5 (3.1%)
/u˨/
5 (3.1%)
/o˥/
5 (3.1%)
/m/
4 (2.5%)
/k/
4 (2.5%)
/e˨/
4 (2.5%)
/s/
4 (2.5%)
/tʰ/
3 (1.9%)
/u/
3 (1.9%)
/l/
3 (1.9%)
/w/
2 (1.3%)
/ɛ˥/
2 (1.3%)
/i˨/
2 (1.3%)
/g/
2 (1.3%)
/ɛ/
2 (1.3%)
/z/
2 (1.3%)
/pʰ/
1 (0.6%)
/ʂ/
1 (0.6%)
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