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 264 transcribed dictionary entries (1,260 total tokens)
/a/
139 (11%)
/e/
105 (8.3%)
/n/
96 (7.6%)
/t/
86 (6.8%)
/k/
82 (6.5%)
/o/
68 (5.4%)
/aː/
59 (4.7%)
/i/
57 (4.5%)
/ʒ/
48 (3.8%)
/u/
47 (3.7%)
/s/
46 (3.7%)
/d/
44 (3.5%)
/r/
41 (3.3%)
/eː/
38 (3%)
/g/
37 (2.9%)
/m/
36 (2.9%)
/p/
25 (2%)
/ʃ/
22 (1.7%)
/v/
19 (1.5%)
/θ/
18 (1.4%)
/oː/
17 (1.3%)
/iː/
16 (1.3%)
/l/
16 (1.3%)
/uː/
14 (1.1%)
/h/
14 (1.1%)
/f/
14 (1.1%)
/b/
13 (1%)
/ð/
13 (1%)
/z/
9 (0.7%)
/w/
9 (0.7%)