Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Pharyngeal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | ɖ | c | kɡ | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | · | · | · | · | · | ɳ | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | ð | · | ʃʒ | ʐ | · | x | ħ | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | y | ɨ | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | · |
| Open-mid | · | ɜ | · |
| Open | a | ä | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 5 transcribed dictionary entries (6 total tokens)
/ʃa/
5 (83.3%)
/e/
1 (16.7%)