Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | · | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | χ | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Near-close | ʏ | · | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 221 transcribed dictionary entries (846 total tokens)
/a/
191 (22.6%)
/i/
82 (9.7%)
/r/
69 (8.2%)
/l/
48 (5.7%)
/m/
45 (5.3%)
/e/
44 (5.2%)
/n/
43 (5.1%)
/u/
41 (4.8%)
/v/
41 (4.8%)
/s/
29 (3.4%)
/o/
27 (3.2%)
/ʏ/
25 (3%)
/k/
20 (2.4%)
/ə/
17 (2%)
/t/
14 (1.7%)
/d/
13 (1.5%)
/b/
12 (1.4%)
/z/
12 (1.4%)
/ʃ/
11 (1.3%)
/χ/
10 (1.2%)
/p/
10 (1.2%)
/g/
8 (0.9%)
/h/
8 (0.9%)
/j/
8 (0.9%)
/ŋ/
6 (0.7%)
/f/
6 (0.7%)
/ʒ/
6 (0.7%)