Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
15 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | · | · | · | d | · | ɟ | g | · | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | |||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | ʀ | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | f | ð | sz | ʃ | · | x | · | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | ɹ | · | j | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | ʟ | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Near-close | ɪʏ | · | · |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɜ | ʌɔ |
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | · |
| Open | aɶ | · | ɒ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 281 transcribed dictionary entries (1,059 total tokens)
/f/
70 (6.6%)
/i/
53 (5%)
/ɛ/
51 (4.8%)
/n/
51 (4.8%)
/r/
45 (4.2%)
/ɛi/
44 (4.2%)
/m/
41 (3.9%)
/æ/
39 (3.7%)
/d/
37 (3.5%)
/s/
36 (3.4%)
/ə/
34 (3.2%)
/ɔ/
33 (3.1%)
/ð/
33 (3.1%)
/ʟ/
31 (2.9%)
/lː/
28 (2.6%)
/ʍ/
27 (2.5%)
/h/
27 (2.5%)
/u/
27 (2.5%)
/ʃ/
25 (2.4%)
/g/
25 (2.4%)
/ʏ/
24 (2.3%)
/ŋ/
24 (2.3%)
/ɪ/
23 (2.2%)
/a/
22 (2.1%)
/ɜ/
20 (1.9%)
/ʌ/
20 (1.9%)
/ɨ/
19 (1.8%)
/ɐ/
18 (1.7%)
/ai/
16 (1.5%)
/j/
16 (1.5%)