Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
22 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kɡ | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ɕʒ | · | x | ɦ | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 101 transcribed dictionary entries (537 total tokens)
/a/
63 (11.7%)
/ɛ/
61 (11.4%)
/i/
42 (7.8%)
/ɔ/
38 (7.1%)
/t/
37 (6.9%)
/k/
33 (6.1%)
/s/
24 (4.5%)
/r/
23 (4.3%)
/l/
23 (4.3%)
/d/
22 (4.1%)
/n/
20 (3.7%)
/ʃ/
19 (3.5%)
/v/
17 (3.2%)
/p/
16 (3%)
/m/
15 (2.8%)
/u/
15 (2.8%)
/j/
13 (2.4%)
/ʒ/
11 (2%)
/z/
10 (1.9%)
/ɪ/
9 (1.7%)
/ɲ/
6 (1.1%)
/ɕ/
6 (1.1%)
/b/
5 (0.9%)
/uː/
4 (0.7%)
/ɦ/
2 (0.4%)
/x/
2 (0.4%)
/f/
1 (0.2%)