Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | td | · | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | · | · | ŋ | · | ||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | sz | ɕʑ | · | · | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(n)Phonological Rules
/h/ > [ç] / _i /n/ > [ŋ] / _k /n/ > [ŋ] / _g
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 153 transcribed dictionary entries (890 total tokens)
/a/
129 (14.5%)
/i/
110 (12.4%)
/e/
88 (9.9%)
/o/
76 (8.5%)
/m/
74 (8.3%)
/u/
66 (7.4%)
/ɾ/
64 (7.2%)
/t/
59 (6.6%)
/k/
36 (4%)
/n/
34 (3.8%)
/w/
33 (3.7%)
/ɕ/
23 (2.6%)
/s/
21 (2.4%)
/j/
19 (2.1%)
/ɸ/
14 (1.6%)
/p/
10 (1.1%)
/g/
8 (0.9%)
/h/
8 (0.9%)
/d/
6 (0.7%)
/ʑ/
6 (0.7%)
/z/
2 (0.2%)
/ŋ/
2 (0.2%)
/b/
2 (0.2%)