Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
13 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | td | · | c | k | · | |||||||
| Nasal | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | z | ʑ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | ɨ | ɯu |
| Close-mid | e | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
cvc,cvvc(c)(v)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 62 transcribed dictionary entries (380 total tokens)
/y/
86 (22.6%)
/k/
36 (9.5%)
/kh/
30 (7.9%)
/ɯ/
29 (7.6%)
/d/
28 (7.4%)
/n/
26 (6.8%)
/l/
21 (5.5%)
/ɨ/
15 (3.9%)
/u/
15 (3.9%)
/t/
15 (3.9%)
/e/
13 (3.4%)
/z/
13 (3.4%)
/c/
12 (3.2%)
/ʑ/
11 (2.9%)
/a/
11 (2.9%)
/i/
10 (2.6%)
/f/
9 (2.4%)