Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

16 consonants
6 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
·
td
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
Trill
·
·
·
r
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
ð
s
x
h
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
·
u
Near-close··
ʊ
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open
a
··

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 205 transcribed dictionary entries (851 total tokens)

//
87 (10.2%)
//
81 (9.5%)
//
75 (8.8%)
/n/
70 (8.2%)
/l/
65 (7.6%)
/r/
58 (6.8%)
//
56 (6.6%)
/d/
46 (5.4%)
/t/
45 (5.3%)
//
41 (4.8%)
/g/
38 (4.5%)
/h/
30 (3.5%)
/k/
30 (3.5%)
/v/
23 (2.7%)
/s/
23 (2.7%)
/m/
21 (2.5%)
/p/
19 (2.2%)
/b/
18 (2.1%)
/ʊ/
18 (2.1%)
/f/
7 (0.8%)