Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

18 consonants
5 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
r
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
sz
ʃʒ
·
·
h
Approximant
·
·
·
·
j
·
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

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

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 379 transcribed dictionary entries (1,894 total tokens)

/a/
209 (11%)
/e/
198 (10.5%)
/o/
188 (9.9%)
/r/
180 (9.5%)
/i/
143 (7.6%)
/u/
126 (6.7%)
/t/
105 (5.5%)
/n/
104 (5.5%)
/l/
85 (4.5%)
/d/
80 (4.2%)
/s/
71 (3.7%)
/k/
69 (3.6%)
/m/
69 (3.6%)
/p/
54 (2.9%)
/b/
50 (2.6%)
/ʃ/
44 (2.3%)
/v/
39 (2.1%)
/f/
26 (1.4%)
/g/
20 (1.1%)
/j/
18 (1%)
/z/
12 (0.6%)
/h/
4 (0.2%)