Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

23 consonants
6 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
·
kɡ
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
ɲ
ŋ
·
Fricative
·
fv
sz
ʃ
·
ɣ
ɦ
Affricate
·
·
·
·
·
·
Approximant
·
·
ɹ
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
·
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open-mid
ɛ
··
Open
a
··

Syllable Structure

(V)CV

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 522 transcribed dictionary entries (2,199 total tokens)

/b/
257 (11.7%)
/z/
249 (11.3%)
//
177 (8%)
//
95 (4.3%)
/ʃ/
85 (3.9%)
/˥/
84 (3.8%)
/n/
83 (3.8%)
//
76 (3.5%)
/f/
73 (3.3%)
//
72 (3.3%)
/m/
68 (3.1%)
//
61 (2.8%)
//
59 (2.7%)
//
56 (2.5%)
//
56 (2.5%)
/ɹ/
55 (2.5%)
/w/
49 (2.2%)
/d/
48 (2.2%)
//
45 (2%)
/ɛ˧/
41 (1.9%)
/j/
40 (1.8%)
//
40 (1.8%)
/˩/
39 (1.8%)
/l/
31 (1.4%)
/ɲ/
30 (1.4%)
/ɛ˥/
26 (1.2%)
/ɦ/
24 (1.1%)
//
23 (1%)
/ŋ/
23 (1%)
/s/
20 (0.9%)