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 199 transcribed dictionary entries (1,006 total tokens)
/o/
102 (10.1%)
/e/
91 (9%)
/u/
82 (8.2%)
/a/
77 (7.7%)
/s/
68 (6.8%)
/t/
57 (5.7%)
/j/
47 (4.7%)
/ʃ/
45 (4.5%)
/k/
41 (4.1%)
/i/
39 (3.9%)
/l/
33 (3.3%)
/θ/
33 (3.3%)
/n/
29 (2.9%)
/w/
28 (2.8%)
/f/
27 (2.7%)
/x/
26 (2.6%)
/p/
24 (2.4%)
/v/
23 (2.3%)
/m/
23 (2.3%)
/g/
22 (2.2%)
/d/
17 (1.7%)
/eː/
12 (1.2%)
/b/
11 (1.1%)
/ʒ/
11 (1.1%)
/iː/
8 (0.8%)
/uː/
8 (0.8%)
/aː/
7 (0.7%)
/r/
6 (0.6%)
/oː/
6 (0.6%)
/z/
3 (0.3%)