Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | td | · | c | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | · | ɱ | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | z | ʑ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | ɥ | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | ɨʉ | ɯu |
| Close-mid | e | ɵ | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
cvc,cvvc(c)(v)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 74 transcribed dictionary entries (620 total tokens)
/h/
201 (32.4%)
/i/
57 (9.2%)
/ɯ/
40 (6.5%)
/ɨ/
34 (5.5%)
/ɥ/
31 (5%)
/k/
30 (4.8%)
/ɵ/
29 (4.7%)
/ɱ/
26 (4.2%)
/d/
22 (3.5%)
/t/
21 (3.4%)
/eh/
18 (2.9%)
/f/
16 (2.6%)
/l/
16 (2.6%)
/ʑ/
15 (2.4%)
/y/
14 (2.3%)
/c/
12 (1.9%)
/a/
9 (1.5%)
/e/
7 (1.1%)
/u/
7 (1.1%)
/kh/
6 (1%)
/z/
5 (0.8%)
/ej/
2 (0.3%)
/ʉ/
1 (0.2%)
/p/
1 (0.2%)