Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | td | · | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | · | · | ŋ | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | β | s | ʃ | · | · | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | · | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)Phonological Rules
/n/ → [ŋ]/_k,g
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 162 transcribed dictionary entries (169 total tokens)
/ɛ/
102 (60.4%)
/β/
39 (23.1%)
/k/
16 (9.5%)
/ʃ/
12 (7.1%)