Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
23 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | q | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | |||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | · | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 118 transcribed dictionary entries (505 total tokens)
/a/
56 (11.1%)
/e/
52 (10.3%)
/n/
46 (9.1%)
/t/
38 (7.5%)
/k/
30 (5.9%)
/aː/
24 (4.8%)
/o/
23 (4.6%)
/ʒ/
21 (4.2%)
/d/
20 (4%)
/i/
19 (3.8%)
/g/
19 (3.8%)
/u/
18 (3.6%)
/r/
17 (3.4%)
/eː/
15 (3%)
/s/
13 (2.6%)
/l/
11 (2.2%)
/oː/
8 (1.6%)
/θ/
8 (1.6%)
/p/
7 (1.4%)
/iː/
7 (1.4%)
/f/
7 (1.4%)
/v/
7 (1.4%)
/h/
7 (1.4%)
/m/
7 (1.4%)
/b/
5 (1%)
/ʃ/
4 (0.8%)
/z/
4 (0.8%)
/ð/
4 (0.8%)
/uː/
4 (0.8%)
/w/
2 (0.4%)