Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
4 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | · | · | td | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | xɣ | hɦ | ||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | · | ä | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 66 transcribed dictionary entries (154 total tokens)
/n/
17 (11%)
/ɛ/
13 (8.4%)
/k/
13 (8.4%)
/m/
10 (6.5%)
/d/
9 (5.8%)
/ʃ/
8 (5.2%)
/f/
7 (4.5%)
/ʒ/
7 (4.5%)
/v/
7 (4.5%)
/h/
7 (4.5%)
/m̥/
6 (3.9%)
/z/
6 (3.9%)
/t/
6 (3.9%)
/ɣ/
6 (3.9%)
/s/
6 (3.9%)
/x/
6 (3.9%)
/g/
5 (3.2%)
/n̥/
4 (2.6%)
/ɦ/
4 (2.6%)
/lɛ/
2 (1.3%)
/ɨ/
1 (0.6%)
/lä/
1 (0.6%)
/ä/
1 (0.6%)
/i/
1 (0.6%)
/ɯ̽/
1 (0.6%)