Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

15 consonants
7 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPostalveolarRetroflexVelarGlottal
Plosive
p
·
td
·
ɖ
kg
·
Nasal
·
ɱ
n
·
·
·
·
Tap/Flap
·
·
·
·
ɽ
·
·
Fricative
β
·
·
ʃʑ
·
·
h
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
·
ɭ
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
ʉ
·
Near-close
ɪ
··
Close-mid··
ɤo
Open-mid
ɛ
··
Open
a
··

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 351 transcribed dictionary entries (1,450 total tokens)

/ɛ/
231 (15.9%)
/a/
143 (9.9%)
/ɤ/
127 (8.8%)
/n/
114 (7.9%)
/ɱ/
102 (7%)
/i/
101 (7%)
/β/
73 (5%)
/ʉ/
73 (5%)
/g/
72 (5%)
/o/
67 (4.6%)
/ɖ/
60 (4.1%)
/ɽ/
56 (3.9%)
/ɭ/
53 (3.7%)
//
49 (3.4%)
/p/
48 (3.3%)
/ʃ/
46 (3.2%)
/h/
35 (2.4%)