Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | t | · | · | k | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | s | ʃ | · | x | h | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛœ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(V)(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 375 transcribed dictionary entries (1,782 total tokens)
/a/
274 (15.4%)
/ɛ/
134 (7.5%)
/l/
127 (7.1%)
/t/
123 (6.9%)
/k/
111 (6.2%)
/w/
102 (5.7%)
/r/
98 (5.5%)
/u/
95 (5.3%)
/m/
91 (5.1%)
/j/
86 (4.8%)
/f/
76 (4.3%)
/i/
69 (3.9%)
/n/
64 (3.6%)
/x/
56 (3.1%)
/ʃ/
51 (2.9%)
/ɔ/
51 (2.9%)
/s/
40 (2.2%)
/ə/
40 (2.2%)
/p/
39 (2.2%)
/y/
19 (1.1%)
/œ/
15 (0.8%)
/ŋ/
11 (0.6%)
/h/
10 (0.6%)