Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

6 consonants
7 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialPostalveolarRetroflexUvularPharyngeal
Plosive
pb
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
ʃ
ʂ
χ
ħ

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close·
ɨ
ɯu
Close-mid
ø
·
o
Open
a
ä
·

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 7 transcribed dictionary entries (24 total tokens)

/ħ/
7 (29.2%)
/a/
5 (20.8%)
//
4 (16.7%)
/ʃ/
3 (12.5%)
/u/
2 (8.3%)
/ʂ/
2 (8.3%)
/ɨ/
1 (4.2%)