Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
18 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | c | kg | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʂʐ | · | · | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | w | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Phonological Rules
/a/ → [ɑ] / [+retroflex]_ /ɾ/ → [r] / _C
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 284 transcribed dictionary entries (1,207 total tokens)
/a/
182 (15.1%)
/ɾ/
93 (7.7%)
/i/
91 (7.5%)
/e/
85 (7%)
/n/
84 (7%)
/u/
79 (6.5%)
/l/
77 (6.4%)
/ɑ/
68 (5.6%)
/w/
62 (5.1%)
/m/
50 (4.1%)
/g/
48 (4%)
/k/
42 (3.5%)
/c/
42 (3.5%)
/d/
35 (2.9%)
/s/
31 (2.6%)
/o/
28 (2.3%)
/f/
27 (2.2%)
/t/
20 (1.7%)
/ʂ/
14 (1.2%)
/v/
13 (1.1%)
/z/
13 (1.1%)
/p/
11 (0.9%)
/b/
4 (0.3%)
/ɑː/
3 (0.2%)
/oː/
2 (0.2%)
/uː/
2 (0.2%)
/ꭧ/
1 (0.1%)