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 206 transcribed dictionary entries (875 total tokens)
/iː/
86 (9.8%)
/n/
81 (9.3%)
/e/
66 (7.5%)
/l/
64 (7.3%)
/ʁ/
62 (7.1%)
/ɑ/
61 (7%)
/d/
59 (6.7%)
/k/
56 (6.4%)
/t/
32 (3.7%)
/h/
31 (3.5%)
/m/
27 (3.1%)
/s/
26 (3%)
/b/
26 (3%)
/uː/
22 (2.5%)
/o/
21 (2.4%)
/aː/
21 (2.4%)
/ɡ/
21 (2.4%)
/χ/
16 (1.8%)
/f/
16 (1.8%)
/ɪ/
15 (1.7%)
/p/
14 (1.6%)
/θ/
10 (1.1%)
/u/
9 (1%)
/ɑj/
7 (0.8%)
/w/
6 (0.7%)
/v/
6 (0.7%)
/ʃ/
4 (0.5%)
/ŋ/
3 (0.3%)
/ə/
3 (0.3%)
/kw/
1 (0.1%)