Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
14 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | f | s | · | · | ʁ | ||||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | j | · | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Near-open | · | ɐ | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(C)Phonological Rules
/i/ → [ĩ] / _m /i/ → [ĩ] / _n /ɐ/ → [ã] / _m /ɐ/ → [ã] / _n /ɛ/ → [ẽ] / _m /ɛ/ → [ẽ] / _n /u/ → [ũ] / _m /u/ → [ũ] / _n /o/ → [õ] / _m /o/ → [õ] / _n
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 236 transcribed dictionary entries (926 total tokens)
/l/
118 (12.7%)
/s/
98 (10.6%)
/ʁ/
96 (10.4%)
/o/
77 (8.3%)
/i/
74 (8%)
/t/
59 (6.4%)
/d/
57 (6.2%)
/u/
52 (5.6%)
/k/
51 (5.5%)
/n/
39 (4.2%)
/p/
39 (4.2%)
/ɐ/
31 (3.3%)
/f/
31 (3.3%)
/m/
30 (3.2%)
/b/
21 (2.3%)
/g/
21 (2.3%)
/ɛ/
15 (1.6%)
/j/
9 (1%)
/ɐi/
6 (0.6%)
/ʋ/
2 (0.2%)