Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
10 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | · | · | d | · | kg | |||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | |||||
| Fricative | · | fv | s | · | · | |||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | w | |||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | · | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
CVPhoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 365 transcribed dictionary entries (1,964 total tokens)
/æ/
258 (13.1%)
/k/
192 (9.8%)
/oʊ/
192 (9.8%)
/u/
190 (9.7%)
/ɑ/
173 (8.8%)
/aɪ/
167 (8.5%)
/g/
130 (6.6%)
/d/
126 (6.4%)
/v/
90 (4.6%)
/n/
88 (4.5%)
/w/
86 (4.4%)
/j/
86 (4.4%)
/f/
81 (4.1%)
/m/
60 (3.1%)
/s/
45 (2.3%)