Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | s | ʃʒ | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | ɵ | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 46 transcribed dictionary entries (258 total tokens)
/n/
33 (12.8%)
/e/
25 (9.7%)
/a/
21 (8.1%)
/aː/
20 (7.8%)
/l/
20 (7.8%)
/u/
19 (7.4%)
/m/
13 (5%)
/i/
11 (4.3%)
/r/
11 (4.3%)
/ʒ/
10 (3.9%)
/iː/
10 (3.9%)
/ɾ/
9 (3.5%)
/eː/
8 (3.1%)
/o/
8 (3.1%)
/ð/
6 (2.3%)
/ɵ/
6 (2.3%)
/θ/
4 (1.6%)
/g/
4 (1.6%)
/ʃ/
4 (1.6%)
/ɧ/
3 (1.2%)
/w/
3 (1.2%)
/y/
3 (1.2%)
/d/
2 (0.8%)
/v/
2 (0.8%)
/t/
1 (0.4%)
/oː/
1 (0.4%)
/f/
1 (0.4%)