Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | s | · | · | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 194 transcribed dictionary entries (939 total tokens)
/ɑ/
153 (16.3%)
/m/
81 (8.6%)
/u/
76 (8.1%)
/t/
65 (6.9%)
/r/
65 (6.9%)
/n/
57 (6.1%)
/g/
55 (5.9%)
/i/
50 (5.3%)
/e/
41 (4.4%)
/k/
40 (4.3%)
/l/
36 (3.8%)
/d/
35 (3.7%)
/s/
33 (3.5%)
/f/
27 (2.9%)
/j/
26 (2.8%)
/b/
25 (2.7%)
/y/
22 (2.3%)
/v/
16 (1.7%)
/h/
12 (1.3%)
/o/
11 (1.2%)
/p/
11 (1.2%)
/ks/
2 (0.2%)