Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
22 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kɡ | · | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | χʁ | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 234 transcribed dictionary entries (997 total tokens)
/n/
97 (9.7%)
/iː/
96 (9.6%)
/e/
75 (7.5%)
/ʁ/
72 (7.2%)
/l/
68 (6.8%)
/d/
66 (6.6%)
/ɑ/
65 (6.5%)
/k/
60 (6%)
/t/
37 (3.7%)
/h/
34 (3.4%)
/b/
31 (3.1%)
/m/
30 (3%)
/s/
28 (2.8%)
/ɪ/
27 (2.7%)
/o/
25 (2.5%)
/uː/
23 (2.3%)
/aː/
22 (2.2%)
/ɡ/
21 (2.1%)
/f/
20 (2%)
/θ/
17 (1.7%)
/p/
15 (1.5%)
/χ/
14 (1.4%)
/w/
12 (1.2%)
/u/
9 (0.9%)
/ɑj/
7 (0.7%)
/v/
6 (0.6%)
/ʃ/
5 (0.5%)
/ej/
4 (0.4%)
/ə/
3 (0.3%)
/ŋ/
3 (0.3%)