Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ŋ | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | ɸβ | f | sz | ʃ | x | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | · | · | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | · | ä | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
(C)CV(C)(C)Phonological Rules
/h/ -> [] / h silent between consonants and at end of word /ŋ/ -> [n] / when not end of syllable
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 43 transcribed dictionary entries (180 total tokens)
/o/
24 (13.3%)
/i/
16 (8.9%)
/ä/
16 (8.9%)
/s/
14 (7.8%)
/p/
13 (7.2%)
/n/
13 (7.2%)
/r/
11 (6.1%)
/m/
9 (5%)
/ʋ/
6 (3.3%)
/t/
6 (3.3%)
/u/
6 (3.3%)
/h/
5 (2.8%)
/k/
4 (2.2%)
/e/
4 (2.2%)
/f/
4 (2.2%)
/au/
3 (1.7%)
/ʃ/
3 (1.7%)
/ai/
3 (1.7%)
/d/
3 (1.7%)
/g/
3 (1.7%)
/ɑ/
2 (1.1%)
/z/
2 (1.1%)
/æ/
2 (1.1%)
/ø/
2 (1.1%)
/l/
1 (0.6%)
/j/
1 (0.6%)
/b/
1 (0.6%)
/oi/
1 (0.6%)
/ʏ/
1 (0.6%)
/x/
1 (0.6%)