Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

17 consonants
9 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarPalatalVelarUvularGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
·
td
·
kg
·
·
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
θð
s
·
·
ʁ
h
Approximant
·
·
·
·
j
·
·
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
ʉ
u
Near-close
ʏ
··
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open-mid
œ
··
Near-open
æ
··
Open··
ɑ

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 82 transcribed dictionary entries (412 total tokens)

/ɑ/
55 (13.3%)
/ʁ/
40 (9.7%)
/n/
39 (9.5%)
/s/
27 (6.6%)
/l/
26 (6.3%)
/k/
23 (5.6%)
/d/
19 (4.6%)
/j/
19 (4.6%)
/t/
19 (4.6%)
/g/
15 (3.6%)
/i/
14 (3.4%)
/e/
14 (3.4%)
/u/
12 (2.9%)
/o/
11 (2.7%)
/æ/
11 (2.7%)
/f/
11 (2.7%)
/v/
9 (2.2%)
/ʉ/
8 (1.9%)
/m/
8 (1.9%)
/h/
8 (1.9%)
/ʏ/
6 (1.5%)
/p/
5 (1.2%)
/θ/
4 (1%)
/ð/
4 (1%)
/œ/
3 (0.7%)
/b/
2 (0.5%)