Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

12 consonants
9 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarVelarUvular
Plosive
pb
·
td
g
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
ɴ
Trill
·
·
r
·
·
Fricative
·
f
s
·
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
··
Near-close
ɪ
·
ʊ
Close-mid
e
·
o
Mid·
ə
·
Near-open
æ
··
Open
a
·
ɒ

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 33 transcribed dictionary entries (150 total tokens)

/r/
29 (19.3%)
/n/
16 (10.7%)
/d/
13 (8.7%)
/m/
12 (8%)
/æ/
12 (8%)
/ə/
11 (7.3%)
/ɒ/
11 (7.3%)
/i/
10 (6.7%)
/b/
9 (6%)
/s/
7 (4.7%)
//
7 (4.7%)
/f/
4 (2.7%)
//
3 (2%)
/t/
2 (1.3%)
/g/
2 (1.3%)
/l/
2 (1.3%)