Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
14 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | td | · | c | k | · | |||||||
| Nasal | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | z | ʑ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | ɨ | ɯu |
| Close-mid | e | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
cvc,cvvc(c)(v)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 75 transcribed dictionary entries (439 total tokens)
/y/
97 (22.1%)
/ɯ/
38 (8.7%)
/d/
36 (8.2%)
/kh/
33 (7.5%)
/k/
32 (7.3%)
/a/
26 (5.9%)
/z/
21 (4.8%)
/n/
20 (4.6%)
/t/
19 (4.3%)
/l/
18 (4.1%)
/ɨ/
18 (4.1%)
/ʑ/
15 (3.4%)
/u/
15 (3.4%)
/c/
13 (3%)
/f/
9 (2.1%)
/eh/
7 (1.6%)
/e/
7 (1.6%)
/ka/
6 (1.4%)
/el/
6 (1.4%)
/i/
3 (0.7%)