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)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 65 transcribed dictionary entries (399 total tokens)
/y/
67 (16.8%)
/ɯ/
58 (14.5%)
/h/
40 (10%)
/k/
33 (8.3%)
/u/
26 (6.5%)
/d/
25 (6.3%)
/l/
19 (4.8%)
/t/
18 (4.5%)
/n/
17 (4.3%)
/c/
16 (4%)
/ɨ/
15 (3.8%)
/ʑ/
13 (3.3%)
/eh/
13 (3.3%)
/kh/
11 (2.8%)
/f/
10 (2.5%)
/i/
6 (1.5%)
/z/
6 (1.5%)
/a/
4 (1%)
/el/
1 (0.3%)
/ej/
1 (0.3%)