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 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%)