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 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%)