Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
12 consonants
4 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | t | · | kg | ʔ | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | · | ŋ | · | |||||
| Fricative | · | · | · | · | h | |||||
| Approximant | · | · | j | w | · | |||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | |||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(N)Phonological Rules
/m/ → [Ṽ] (vowel) p → b | ʭ w → ɸ | h̪͆ u → ɯ
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 152 transcribed dictionary entries (463 total tokens)
/n/
66 (14.3%)
/m/
59 (12.7%)
/ŋ/
52 (11.2%)
/i/
48 (10.4%)
/e/
47 (10.2%)
/a/
42 (9.1%)
/u/
28 (6%)
/p/
18 (3.9%)
/g/
17 (3.7%)
/j/
16 (3.5%)
/k/
14 (3%)
/w/
14 (3%)
/h/
13 (2.8%)
/t/
13 (2.8%)
/l/
13 (2.8%)
/ʔ/
3 (0.6%)