Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
15 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | s | · | · | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | · | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 281 transcribed dictionary entries (1,365 total tokens)
/ɑ/
210 (15.4%)
/m/
113 (8.3%)
/u/
104 (7.6%)
/r/
90 (6.6%)
/n/
89 (6.5%)
/t/
84 (6.2%)
/i/
74 (5.4%)
/g/
68 (5%)
/e/
68 (5%)
/d/
60 (4.4%)
/k/
57 (4.2%)
/l/
56 (4.1%)
/s/
53 (3.9%)
/f/
39 (2.9%)
/b/
39 (2.9%)
/j/
37 (2.7%)
/y/
32 (2.3%)
/v/
28 (2.1%)
/h/
24 (1.8%)
/o/
21 (1.5%)
/p/
13 (1%)
/ø/
6 (0.4%)