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 | · | · |
Syllable Structure
CV(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 244 transcribed dictionary entries (1,149 total tokens)
/a/
128 (11.1%)
/e/
98 (8.5%)
/n/
91 (7.9%)
/t/
78 (6.8%)
/k/
77 (6.7%)
/o/
59 (5.1%)
/aː/
56 (4.9%)
/i/
50 (4.4%)
/ʒ/
44 (3.8%)
/u/
43 (3.7%)
/s/
40 (3.5%)
/d/
38 (3.3%)
/g/
36 (3.1%)
/eː/
36 (3.1%)
/r/
34 (3%)
/m/
31 (2.7%)
/p/
24 (2.1%)
/v/
19 (1.7%)
/θ/
18 (1.6%)
/ʃ/
17 (1.5%)
/oː/
15 (1.3%)
/l/
15 (1.3%)
/f/
14 (1.2%)
/ð/
13 (1.1%)
/uː/
12 (1%)
/iː/
12 (1%)
/b/
12 (1%)
/h/
11 (1%)
/w/
9 (0.8%)
/z/
8 (0.7%)