Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | v | s | ʃ | · | χ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | w | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | · |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)CV(C)Phonological Rules
/o/ → [o̝ʷ] / #_k (o raises and rounds before a following k)
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 91 transcribed dictionary entries (405 total tokens)
/a/
87 (21.5%)
/t/
57 (14.1%)
/u/
50 (12.3%)
/k/
38 (9.4%)
/i/
27 (6.7%)
/ʃ/
23 (5.7%)
/n/
21 (5.2%)
/m/
20 (4.9%)
/p/
15 (3.7%)
/r/
13 (3.2%)
/s/
9 (2.2%)
/o/
8 (2%)
/e/
8 (2%)
/d/
7 (1.7%)
/l/
6 (1.5%)
/χ/
4 (1%)
/b/
3 (0.7%)
/uː/
2 (0.5%)
/h/
2 (0.5%)
/v/
2 (0.5%)
/g/
1 (0.2%)
/w/
1 (0.2%)
/tʃ/
1 (0.2%)