Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | θð | sz | ʃʒ | x | h | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | · |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 138 transcribed dictionary entries (646 total tokens)
/a/
120 (18.6%)
/i/
77 (11.9%)
/t/
55 (8.5%)
/s/
47 (7.3%)
/ɾ/
46 (7.1%)
/m/
41 (6.3%)
/n/
40 (6.2%)
/ɛ/
33 (5.1%)
/o/
30 (4.6%)
/k/
27 (4.2%)
/h/
20 (3.1%)
/ʃ/
19 (2.9%)
/e/
16 (2.5%)
/r/
13 (2%)
/l/
12 (1.9%)
/ɪ/
12 (1.9%)
/p/
11 (1.7%)
/x/
8 (1.2%)
/θ/
7 (1.1%)
/d/
4 (0.6%)
/ʒ/
4 (0.6%)
/b/
2 (0.3%)
/z/
1 (0.2%)
/ð/
1 (0.2%)