Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
9 consonants
3 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | · | · | · | ʔ | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | · | |||||
| Trill | ʙ | · | · | · | · | |||||
| Fricative | ɸβ | · | · | · | · | |||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 88 transcribed dictionary entries (373 total tokens)
/a/
68 (18.2%)
/i/
62 (16.6%)
/m/
53 (14.2%)
/ɛ/
43 (11.5%)
/n/
40 (10.7%)
/bβ/
28 (7.5%)
/β/
22 (5.9%)
/ŋ/
21 (5.6%)
/ɸ/
16 (4.3%)
/ʙ/
9 (2.4%)
/ã/
7 (1.9%)
/aː/
2 (0.5%)
/iː/
1 (0.3%)
/ɲ/
1 (0.3%)