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 406 transcribed dictionary entries (1,952 total tokens)
/a/
287 (14.7%)
/ɛ/
170 (8.7%)
/t/
130 (6.7%)
/l/
130 (6.7%)
/w/
129 (6.6%)
/k/
121 (6.2%)
/m/
108 (5.5%)
/u/
100 (5.1%)
/r/
99 (5.1%)
/j/
92 (4.7%)
/f/
88 (4.5%)
/i/
77 (3.9%)
/x/
64 (3.3%)
/n/
64 (3.3%)
/ɔ/
54 (2.8%)
/ʃ/
53 (2.7%)
/ə/
47 (2.4%)
/p/
41 (2.1%)
/s/
41 (2.1%)
/y/
19 (1%)
/œ/
15 (0.8%)
/h/
12 (0.6%)
/ŋ/
11 (0.6%)