Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | ð | s | x | h | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
/iː/
87 (10.2%)
/eː/
81 (9.5%)
/aː/
75 (8.8%)
/n/
70 (8.2%)
/l/
65 (7.6%)
/r/
58 (6.8%)
/uː/
56 (6.6%)
/d/
46 (5.4%)
/t/
45 (5.3%)
/oː/
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%)