Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

23 consonants
6 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
·
kɡ
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
ɲ
ŋ
·
Fricative
·
fv
sz
ʃ
·
ɣ
ɦ
Affricate
·
·
·
·
·
·
Approximant
·
·
ɹ
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
·
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open-mid
ɛ
··
Open
a
··

Syllable Structure

(V)CV

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 359 transcribed dictionary entries (2,053 total tokens)

/w/
424 (20.7%)
/g/
339 (16.5%)
//
178 (8.7%)
/z/
134 (6.5%)
/v/
113 (5.5%)
/j/
79 (3.8%)
//
73 (3.6%)
/f/
59 (2.9%)
/˥/
58 (2.8%)
//
50 (2.4%)
//
48 (2.3%)
/ʃ/
47 (2.3%)
//
40 (1.9%)
//
38 (1.9%)
//
37 (1.8%)
//
31 (1.5%)
/ɛ˧/
28 (1.4%)
/l/
26 (1.3%)
/ɲ/
24 (1.2%)
/˩/
24 (1.2%)
/ɛ˥/
23 (1.1%)
//
23 (1.1%)
/ŋ/
22 (1.1%)
/ɦ/
22 (1.1%)
/ɹ/
21 (1%)
/ɡʷ/
19 (0.9%)
//
16 (0.8%)
/ɣ/
15 (0.7%)
//
13 (0.6%)
//
9 (0.4%)