Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
18 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 348 transcribed dictionary entries (1,816 total tokens)
/a/
202 (11.1%)
/e/
190 (10.5%)
/o/
177 (9.7%)
/r/
172 (9.5%)
/i/
141 (7.8%)
/u/
120 (6.6%)
/n/
97 (5.3%)
/t/
92 (5.1%)
/l/
81 (4.5%)
/d/
73 (4%)
/k/
67 (3.7%)
/s/
66 (3.6%)
/m/
64 (3.5%)
/p/
49 (2.7%)
/ʃ/
47 (2.6%)
/b/
46 (2.5%)
/v/
37 (2%)
/f/
25 (1.4%)
/g/
21 (1.2%)
/ʒ/
16 (0.9%)
/j/
16 (0.9%)
/z/
13 (0.7%)
/h/
4 (0.2%)