Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

15 consonants
8 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
k
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
r
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
s
·
x
h
Approximant
·
·
·
j
·
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
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%)
//
95 (2.8%)
/x/
90 (2.7%)
//
63 (1.9%)
/p/
59 (1.8%)
//
54 (1.6%)
/ʊ/
53 (1.6%)
//
44 (1.3%)
/j/
39 (1.2%)
/h/
34 (1%)
/v/
13 (0.4%)