Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

18 consonants

14 vowels

Consonant Inventory

Manner	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	pb	·	·	td	·	kg	·
Nasal	m	·	·	n	·	ŋ	·
Trill	·	·	·	r	·	·	·
Fricative	·	fv	θð	s	·	·	h
Approximant	·	·	·	·	j	·	·
Lateral approximant	·	·	·	l	·	·	·

Vowel Inventory

Height	Front	Central	Back
Close	iy	·	u
Near-close	ɪʏ	·	ʊ
Close-mid	eø	·	o
Open-mid	ɛœ	·	ɔ
Open	a	·	ɒ

Phonological Rules

/t/ → [d] / e_V
/t/ → [d] / u_V
/t/ → [d] / á_V
/t/ → [d] / é_V
/t/ → [d] / í_V
/t/ → [d] / ý_V
/t/ → [d] / ǿ_V
/t/ → [d] / ei_V
/t/ → [d] / oi_V
/t/ → [d] / yi_V
/t/ → [d] / øi_V
/k/ → [g] / a_V
/k/ → [g] / e_V
/k/ → [g] / ø_V
/k/ → [g] / á_V
/k/ → [g] / é_V
/k/ → [g] / í_V
/k/ → [g] / ý_V
/k/ → [g] / ǿ_V
/k/ → [g] / ai_V
/k/ → [g] / au_V
/k/ → [g] / ei_V
/k/ → [g] / oi_V
/k/ → [g] / ui_V
/k/ → [g] / yi_V
/k/ → [g] / øi_V

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 3724 transcribed dictionary entries (28,389 total tokens)

/a/

4,347 (15.3%)

/s/

2,549 (9%)

/r/

2,491 (8.8%)

/θ/

2,153 (7.6%)

/m/

1,959 (6.9%)

/ɪ/

1,697 (6%)

/ɛ/

1,445 (5.1%)

/k/

1,253 (4.4%)

/n/

1,118 (3.9%)

/l/

895 (3.2%)

/ʏ/

891 (3.1%)

/v/

792 (2.8%)

/g/

756 (2.7%)

/œ/

643 (2.3%)

/t/

622 (2.2%)

/d/

553 (1.9%)

/ʊ/

537 (1.9%)

/f/

531 (1.9%)

/b/

448 (1.6%)

/h/

399 (1.4%)

/ɔ/

348 (1.2%)

/j/

315 (1.1%)

/aː/

281 (1%)

/eː/

205 (0.7%)

/p/

204 (0.7%)

/øː/

185 (0.7%)

/uː/

169 (0.6%)

/ɒː/

154 (0.5%)

/oː/

142 (0.5%)

/iː/

124 (0.4%)