Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
22 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | · | · | td | · | c | g | q | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | |||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɺ | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | v | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | · | hɦ | |||||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | · | ɬ | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ʉ | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | ɤo |
| Open-mid | · | ɜ | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)(C)Phonological Rules
/s/ -> [s] / V_i /s/ -> [h] / V_V /ds/ -> [sː] /n/ -> [ŋ] / _k
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 358 transcribed dictionary entries (1,941 total tokens)
/a/
292 (15%)
/ʉ/
198 (10.2%)
/ɜ/
132 (6.8%)
/ɺ/
129 (6.6%)
/o/
120 (6.2%)
/i/
117 (6%)
/t/
100 (5.2%)
/c/
94 (4.8%)
/n/
83 (4.3%)
/ɬ/
73 (3.8%)
/m/
70 (3.6%)
/q/
68 (3.5%)
/ɸ/
63 (3.2%)
/v/
61 (3.1%)
/s/
47 (2.4%)
/d/
44 (2.3%)
/θ/
42 (2.2%)
/x/
30 (1.5%)
/j/
29 (1.5%)
/ɤ/
29 (1.5%)
/z/
27 (1.4%)
/e/
26 (1.3%)
/ɦ/
25 (1.3%)
/ʃ/
21 (1.1%)
/ʒ/
21 (1.1%)