Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
18 consonants
10 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | ʔ | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | ð | · | ʃʒ | · | ɣ | ʁ | · | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | ɯu |
| Close-mid | eø | · | ɤo |
| Open | aɶ | · | · |
Syllable Structure
CV(C)Phonological Rules
d -> n / _C d -> n / _#
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 154 transcribed dictionary entries (623 total tokens)
/a/
106 (17%)
/m/
67 (10.8%)
/b/
62 (10%)
/o/
52 (8.3%)
/k/
44 (7.1%)
/r/
37 (5.9%)
/d/
36 (5.8%)
/e/
27 (4.3%)
/j/
27 (4.3%)
/l/
22 (3.5%)
/g/
20 (3.2%)
/ʁ/
19 (3%)
/v/
17 (2.7%)
/ʔ/
15 (2.4%)
/p/
15 (2.4%)
/ð/
12 (1.9%)
/f/
12 (1.9%)
/t/
12 (1.9%)
/ɣ/
12 (1.9%)
/ʒ/
7 (1.1%)
/ʃ/
2 (0.3%)