Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | kg | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | s | ʃ | · | ||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | · | tʃ | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phonological Rules
/s/ → [ʃ] / k_
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 174 transcribed dictionary entries (850 total tokens)
/o/
87 (10.2%)
/e/
78 (9.2%)
/u/
75 (8.8%)
/a/
62 (7.3%)
/s/
57 (6.7%)
/t/
53 (6.2%)
/ʃ/
38 (4.5%)
/j/
38 (4.5%)
/i/
37 (4.4%)
/k/
33 (3.9%)
/l/
30 (3.5%)
/θ/
25 (2.9%)
/p/
24 (2.8%)
/n/
24 (2.8%)
/f/
23 (2.7%)
/w/
22 (2.6%)
/m/
21 (2.5%)
/v/
19 (2.2%)
/g/
19 (2.2%)
/x/
19 (2.2%)
/d/
15 (1.8%)
/eː/
11 (1.3%)
/b/
11 (1.3%)
/aː/
7 (0.8%)
/iː/
7 (0.8%)
/oː/
5 (0.6%)
/uː/
4 (0.5%)
/r/
3 (0.4%)
/z/
3 (0.4%)