Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | · | · | td | · | c | kg | · | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | v | θ | sz | ʒ | · | · | ʁ | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | · | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
C((C)))VPhoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 48 transcribed dictionary entries (227 total tokens)
/t/
26 (11.5%)
/ɛ/
21 (9.3%)
/ʁ/
20 (8.8%)
/n/
18 (7.9%)
/a/
17 (7.5%)
/o/
14 (6.2%)
/d/
12 (5.3%)
/i/
11 (4.8%)
/eː/
10 (4.4%)
/aː/
9 (4%)
/m/
9 (4%)
/v/
8 (3.5%)
/s/
7 (3.1%)
/k/
7 (3.1%)
/ʒ/
6 (2.6%)
/u/
6 (2.6%)
/b/
5 (2.2%)
/g/
5 (2.2%)
/h/
4 (1.8%)
/w/
4 (1.8%)
/iː/
3 (1.3%)
/θ/
2 (0.9%)
/c/
2 (0.9%)
/l/
1 (0.4%)