Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | d | · | ɟ | kg | ʔ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | v | sz | ʃ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | ʎ | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 318 transcribed dictionary entries (1,571 total tokens)
/a/
241 (15.3%)
/ɛ/
134 (8.5%)
/u/
111 (7.1%)
/d/
105 (6.7%)
/k/
102 (6.5%)
/n/
98 (6.2%)
/i/
90 (5.7%)
/r/
66 (4.2%)
/s/
63 (4%)
/ɑ/
62 (3.9%)
/p/
47 (3%)
/v/
47 (3%)
/z/
46 (2.9%)
/ʔ/
46 (2.9%)
/ɪ/
44 (2.8%)
/l/
44 (2.8%)
/m/
39 (2.5%)
/gʷ/
37 (2.4%)
/b/
34 (2.2%)
/g/
33 (2.1%)
/ɟ/
21 (1.3%)
/ŋ/
20 (1.3%)
/ʃ/
16 (1%)
/ʎ/
15 (1%)
/w/
9 (0.6%)
/h/
1 (0.1%)