Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
21 consonants
10 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | s | ʂʐ | · | · | χʁ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | ts | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | ɫ | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ʉ | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | e | · | · |
| Open-mid | · | · | ɔ |
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 35 transcribed dictionary entries (77 total tokens)
/d/
18 (23.4%)
/s/
14 (18.2%)
/b/
12 (15.6%)
/ɫ/
8 (10.4%)
/k/
7 (9.1%)
/t/
6 (7.8%)
/g/
5 (6.5%)
/ʁ/
4 (5.2%)
/m/
2 (2.6%)
/v/
1 (1.3%)