Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
23 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kɡ | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃ | · | ɣ | ɦ | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | ɹ | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(V)CVPhoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 344 transcribed dictionary entries (1,445 total tokens)
/a˧/
117 (8.1%)
/k/
109 (7.5%)
/a˥/
66 (4.6%)
/b/
60 (4.2%)
/f/
56 (3.9%)
/˥/
55 (3.8%)
/u˧/
53 (3.7%)
/ʃ/
51 (3.5%)
/i˥/
47 (3.3%)
/t/
44 (3%)
/n/
44 (3%)
/d/
40 (2.8%)
/m/
38 (2.6%)
/i˧/
38 (2.6%)
/p/
36 (2.5%)
/z/
33 (2.3%)
/e˧/
32 (2.2%)
/i˩/
31 (2.1%)
/g/
31 (2.1%)
/j/
30 (2.1%)
/ɛ˧/
30 (2.1%)
/a˩/
28 (1.9%)
/e˥/
25 (1.7%)
/ɲ/
25 (1.7%)
/l/
25 (1.7%)
/w/
24 (1.7%)
/˩/
23 (1.6%)
/ɛ˥/
23 (1.6%)
/o˧/
21 (1.5%)
/ŋ/
21 (1.5%)