Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
13 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | · | t | · | · | k | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | · | ʒ | · | · | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | · | tʃ | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(c)(c(v))(c)v(c)Phonological Rules
/i/ → [j] / _V
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 289 transcribed dictionary entries (2,062 total tokens)
/a/
342 (16.6%)
/n/
220 (10.7%)
/e/
163 (7.9%)
/j/
161 (7.8%)
/l/
137 (6.6%)
/i/
133 (6.5%)
/v/
110 (5.3%)
/u/
109 (5.3%)
/ø/
108 (5.2%)
/m/
91 (4.4%)
/o/
84 (4.1%)
/k/
83 (4%)
/t/
77 (3.7%)
/θ/
70 (3.4%)
/ʒ/
67 (3.2%)
/p/
59 (2.9%)
/f/
23 (1.1%)
/tʃ/
22 (1.1%)
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3 (0.1%)