Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

17 consonants
7 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarPostalveolarVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
·
td
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
·
r
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
θ
sz
ʃ
·
h
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
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%)
//
16 (0.9%)
/t/
12 (0.7%)
/ʃ/
10 (0.6%)
/ɑː/
6 (0.3%)
/p/
4 (0.2%)
/θ/
1 (0.1%)