Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
9 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | · | · | · | · | k | ʔ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | v | θ | s | x | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(C)(C)Phonological Rules
/nʔ/ → [ŋ] / _C /r/ → [rː] / _r /ʔ/ → [ʔ] / #_V /ʔ/ → [ʔ] / V_V
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 470 transcribed dictionary entries (2,680 total tokens)
/n/
316 (11.8%)
/l/
293 (10.9%)
/r/
284 (10.6%)
/ɛ/
264 (9.9%)
/a/
249 (9.3%)
/o/
190 (7.1%)
/v/
159 (5.9%)
/θ/
132 (4.9%)
/m/
122 (4.6%)
/ʔ/
94 (3.5%)
/h/
89 (3.3%)
/k/
75 (2.8%)
/aɪ/
73 (2.7%)
/s/
65 (2.4%)
/x/
61 (2.3%)
/ʃ/
41 (1.5%)
/uː/
32 (1.2%)
/aː/
30 (1.1%)
/t/
19 (0.7%)
/ŋ/
16 (0.6%)
/u/
16 (0.6%)
/d/
15 (0.6%)
/i/
12 (0.4%)
/p/
12 (0.4%)
/g/
8 (0.3%)
/oː/
8 (0.3%)
/rː/
3 (0.1%)
/ç/
2 (0.1%)