Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
26 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | ɲ | · | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃʒ | ç | x | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | ts | tʃ | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | ʎ | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 208 transcribed dictionary entries (861 total tokens)
/i/
102 (11.8%)
/r/
79 (9.2%)
/t/
50 (5.8%)
/ʃ/
48 (5.6%)
/n/
40 (4.6%)
/m/
39 (4.5%)
/ɛ/
38 (4.4%)
/l/
37 (4.3%)
/ɑ/
33 (3.8%)
/d/
31 (3.6%)
/u/
30 (3.5%)
/tʃ/
29 (3.4%)
/o/
29 (3.4%)
/ɔː/
27 (3.1%)
/p/
24 (2.8%)
/ɲ/
23 (2.7%)
/ɔ/
21 (2.4%)
/v/
18 (2.1%)
/s/
18 (2.1%)
/uː/
18 (2.1%)
/ts/
16 (1.9%)
/g/
14 (1.6%)
/k/
12 (1.4%)
/b/
12 (1.4%)
/-/
11 (1.3%)
/θ/
11 (1.3%)
/f/
10 (1.2%)
/ʎ/
10 (1.2%)
/x/
10 (1.2%)
/j/
5 (0.6%)