Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

16 consonants
6 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
td
·
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
n
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
sz
ʃ
·
·
h
Affricate
·
·
·
·
·
Approximant
·
·
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close··
u
Near-close
ɪ
·
ʊ
Close-mid··
o
Open-mid
ɛ
··
Open··
ɑ

Phonological Rules

/ɪ/ → [i]

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 163 transcribed dictionary entries (627 total tokens)

/b/
120 (19.1%)
/n/
88 (14%)
/ɛ/
72 (11.5%)
/k/
69 (11%)
/u/
61 (9.7%)
/ɑ/
56 (8.9%)
/s/
54 (8.6%)
/m/
49 (7.8%)
//
26 (4.1%)
/g/
20 (3.2%)
/ɪ/
11 (1.8%)
/ʃ/
1 (0.2%)