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 (378 total tokens)
/y/
88 (23.3%)
/k/
35 (9.3%)
/kh/
30 (7.9%)
/ɯ/
27 (7.1%)
/n/
26 (6.9%)
/d/
26 (6.9%)
/l/
21 (5.6%)
/ɨ/
15 (4%)
/u/
15 (4%)
/t/
15 (4%)
/c/
13 (3.4%)
/z/
12 (3.2%)
/e/
12 (3.2%)
/i/
11 (2.9%)
/ʑ/
11 (2.9%)
/a/
11 (2.9%)
/f/
9 (2.4%)
/ch/
1 (0.3%)