Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | td | · | c | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | z | ʑ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | ɥ | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | ɨ | ɯu |
| Close-mid | e | · | · |
| Open-mid | · | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
cvc,cvvc(c)(v)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 71 transcribed dictionary entries (833 total tokens)
/h/
277 (33.3%)
/w/
223 (26.8%)
/i/
90 (10.8%)
/ɯ/
61 (7.3%)
/k/
30 (3.6%)
/d/
24 (2.9%)
/l/
20 (2.4%)
/t/
20 (2.4%)
/eh/
17 (2%)
/ʑ/
16 (1.9%)
/c/
14 (1.7%)
/ɨ/
13 (1.6%)
/f/
10 (1.2%)
/kh/
9 (1.1%)
/z/
5 (0.6%)
/e/
2 (0.2%)
/el/
1 (0.1%)
/ej/
1 (0.1%)