Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
22 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | · | kg | ʔ | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɳ | ɲ | · | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | s | ʃʒ | · | · | x | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | ɰ | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(V)CV(C)(C)(V)(V)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 46 transcribed dictionary entries (184 total tokens)
/a/
28 (15.2%)
/i/
20 (10.9%)
/t/
16 (8.7%)
/n/
13 (7.1%)
/ʃ/
12 (6.5%)
/o/
12 (6.5%)
/r/
11 (6%)
/m/
8 (4.3%)
/ʒ/
6 (3.3%)
/e/
6 (3.3%)
/l/
6 (3.3%)
/aː/
5 (2.7%)
/k/
5 (2.7%)
/v/
4 (2.2%)
/ʔ/
4 (2.2%)
/h/
4 (2.2%)
/ɲ/
3 (1.6%)
/g/
3 (1.6%)
/eː/
3 (1.6%)
/u/
3 (1.6%)
/ɰ/
3 (1.6%)
/d/
2 (1.1%)
/f/
2 (1.1%)
/j/
1 (0.5%)
/s/
1 (0.5%)
/p/
1 (0.5%)
/uː/
1 (0.5%)
/iː/
1 (0.5%)