Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
14 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | t | · | k | ʔ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | ɲ | ŋ | · | ||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | · | · | · | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(V)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 54 transcribed dictionary entries (219 total tokens)
/a/
34 (15.5%)
/u/
27 (12.3%)
/l/
22 (10%)
/o/
17 (7.8%)
/i/
15 (6.8%)
/ʔ/
15 (6.8%)
/t/
13 (5.9%)
/e/
13 (5.9%)
/aː/
10 (4.6%)
/k/
9 (4.1%)
/h/
8 (3.7%)
/n/
7 (3.2%)
/f/
5 (2.3%)
/m/
5 (2.3%)
/ɾ/
4 (1.8%)
/ŋ/
4 (1.8%)
/eː/
4 (1.8%)
/v/
3 (1.4%)
/oː/
3 (1.4%)
/p/
1 (0.5%)