Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
31 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | ɟ | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | ɲ | · | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | fv | ð | sz | ɕʑ | çʝ | ɣ | hɦ | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | ɫ | · | ʎ | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 377 transcribed dictionary entries (1,917 total tokens)
/u/
240 (12.5%)
/i/
228 (11.9%)
/e/
227 (11.8%)
/o/
206 (10.7%)
/k/
69 (3.6%)
/s/
68 (3.5%)
/z/
62 (3.2%)
/d/
57 (3%)
/t/
57 (3%)
/n/
56 (2.9%)
/l/
53 (2.8%)
/m/
51 (2.7%)
/r/
47 (2.5%)
/b/
46 (2.4%)
/f/
46 (2.4%)
/ʋ/
41 (2.1%)
/h/
38 (2%)
/p/
36 (1.9%)
/ʑ/
32 (1.7%)
/ɲ/
30 (1.6%)
/g/
29 (1.5%)
/w/
27 (1.4%)
/ʝ/
26 (1.4%)
/ɟ/
26 (1.4%)
/ɸ/
25 (1.3%)
/ɕ/
19 (1%)
/j/
18 (0.9%)
/ð/
16 (0.8%)
/ɾ/
11 (0.6%)
/ɦ/
11 (0.6%)