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)(V)(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 10 transcribed dictionary entries (39 total tokens)
/a/
7 (17.9%)
/k/
6 (15.4%)
/l/
5 (12.8%)
/w/
4 (10.3%)
/ə/
3 (7.7%)
/m/
3 (7.7%)
/n/
3 (7.7%)
/i/
2 (5.1%)
/f/
2 (5.1%)
/ŋ/
1 (2.6%)
/t/
1 (2.6%)
/r/
1 (2.6%)
/ɛ/
1 (2.6%)