Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | s | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 227 transcribed dictionary entries (1,173 total tokens)
/ɑ/
152 (13%)
/n/
110 (9.4%)
/ɾ/
99 (8.4%)
/t/
72 (6.1%)
/i/
71 (6.1%)
/s/
69 (5.9%)
/k/
59 (5%)
/l/
53 (4.5%)
/v/
51 (4.3%)
/g/
44 (3.8%)
/d/
42 (3.6%)
/u/
39 (3.3%)
/j/
37 (3.2%)
/e/
37 (3.2%)
/æ/
35 (3%)
/f/
27 (2.3%)
/ʉ/
26 (2.2%)
/m/
25 (2.1%)
/p/
21 (1.8%)
/ʏ/
20 (1.7%)
/o/
18 (1.5%)
/ð/
17 (1.4%)
/h/
15 (1.3%)
/b/
13 (1.1%)
/œ/
12 (1%)
/θ/
9 (0.8%)