Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | ɲ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | · | ʃ | · | · | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | ɯu |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 4 transcribed dictionary entries (10 total tokens)
/i/
2 (20%)
/j/
2 (20%)
/ɔ/
1 (10%)
/t/
1 (10%)
/ɯ/
1 (10%)
/m/
1 (10%)
/v/
1 (10%)
/o/
1 (10%)