Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃ | · | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(C)(C)Phonological Rules
th → θ / _ sh → ʃ / _ aa → ɑː / _ oo → oː / _ uu → uː / _ ae → aɪ / _
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 338 transcribed dictionary entries (1,759 total tokens)
/r/
260 (14.8%)
/a/
236 (13.4%)
/k/
189 (10.7%)
/n/
161 (9.2%)
/o/
129 (7.3%)
/z/
117 (6.7%)
/u/
116 (6.6%)
/g/
98 (5.6%)
/d/
91 (5.2%)
/ɛ/
54 (3.1%)
/m/
54 (3.1%)
/l/
50 (2.8%)
/v/
49 (2.8%)
/s/
47 (2.7%)
/i/
25 (1.4%)
/h/
18 (1%)
/f/
16 (0.9%)
/uː/
16 (0.9%)
/t/
12 (0.7%)
/ʃ/
10 (0.6%)
/ɑː/
6 (0.3%)
/p/
4 (0.2%)
/θ/
1 (0.1%)