Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
13 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | td | · | c | k | · | |||||||
| Nasal | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| 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)Phonological Rules
/t/-> th
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 65 transcribed dictionary entries (382 total tokens)
/y/
87 (22.8%)
/k/
34 (8.9%)
/d/
34 (8.9%)
/ɯ/
32 (8.4%)
/kh/
31 (8.1%)
/z/
18 (4.7%)
/t/
18 (4.7%)
/l/
17 (4.5%)
/u/
16 (4.2%)
/ɨ/
14 (3.7%)
/n/
14 (3.7%)
/c/
12 (3.1%)
/ʑ/
11 (2.9%)
/a/
10 (2.6%)
/e/
9 (2.4%)
/f/
8 (2.1%)
/i/
6 (1.6%)
/eh/
6 (1.6%)
/el/
4 (1%)
/ej/
1 (0.3%)