Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
15 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | k | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | s | · | x | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | · | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 628 transcribed dictionary entries (3,359 total tokens)
/r/
336 (10%)
/ɛ/
294 (8.8%)
/t/
276 (8.2%)
/a/
259 (7.7%)
/s/
237 (7.1%)
/l/
207 (6.2%)
/n/
198 (5.9%)
/b/
183 (5.4%)
/d/
173 (5.2%)
/k/
171 (5.1%)
/ɪ/
134 (4%)
/f/
132 (3.9%)
/ɔ/
117 (3.5%)
/m/
98 (2.9%)
/aː/
95 (2.8%)
/x/
90 (2.7%)
/oː/
63 (1.9%)
/p/
59 (1.8%)
/iː/
54 (1.6%)
/ʊ/
53 (1.6%)
/uː/
44 (1.3%)
/j/
39 (1.2%)
/h/
34 (1%)
/v/
13 (0.4%)