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Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

5 consonants
3 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarVelar
Plosive
p
·
·
·
Nasal
·
ɱ
·
ŋ
Lateral fricative
·
·
ɬ
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Near-close··
ʊ
Close-mid
e
··
Open
a
··

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 3 transcribed dictionary entries (13 total tokens)

/ʊ/
6 (46.2%)
/ɬ/
4 (30.8%)
/ɱ/
2 (15.4%)
/e/
1 (7.7%)