Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
18 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | · | t | · | · | k | ʔ | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | f | θ | s | ʃ | · | x | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | ʎ | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)Phonological Rules
/p/ → [ʔ] / _# /t/ → [ʔ] / _# /k/ → [ʔ] / _# /tl/ → /ʃ/ /_
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 56 transcribed dictionary entries (188 total tokens)
/i/
16 (8.5%)
/a/
15 (8%)
/o/
14 (7.4%)
/e/
14 (7.4%)
/k/
12 (6.4%)
/ʎ/
11 (5.9%)
/r/
10 (5.3%)
/j/
8 (4.3%)
/n/
8 (4.3%)
/w/
8 (4.3%)
/ʔ/
8 (4.3%)
/ɛ/
7 (3.7%)
/u/
6 (3.2%)
/s/
6 (3.2%)
/l/
6 (3.2%)
/ŋ/
5 (2.7%)
/t/
5 (2.7%)
/ʃ/
5 (2.7%)
/f/
5 (2.7%)
/m/
4 (2.1%)
/ɔ/
4 (2.1%)
/θ/
4 (2.1%)
/h/
4 (2.1%)
/p/
3 (1.6%)