Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | kg | q | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | v | θ | sz | · | x | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 231 transcribed dictionary entries (1,256 total tokens)
/ɔ/
135 (10.7%)
/iː/
125 (10%)
/r/
120 (9.6%)
/a/
103 (8.2%)
/n/
79 (6.3%)
/m/
78 (6.2%)
/l/
73 (5.8%)
/s/
65 (5.2%)
/t/
56 (4.5%)
/aː/
55 (4.4%)
/j/
38 (3%)
/x/
36 (2.9%)
/ɪ/
33 (2.6%)
/oː/
30 (2.4%)
/eː/
27 (2.1%)
/k/
23 (1.8%)
/d/
20 (1.6%)
/ɛ/
20 (1.6%)
/q/
19 (1.5%)
/v/
19 (1.5%)
/θ/
19 (1.5%)
/g/
18 (1.4%)
/uː/
18 (1.4%)
/z/
14 (1.1%)
/ʊ/
14 (1.1%)
/p/
11 (0.9%)
/b/
8 (0.6%)