Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
23 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kɡ | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃ | · | ɣ | ɦ | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | ɹ | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(V)CVPhoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 522 transcribed dictionary entries (2,199 total tokens)
/b/
257 (11.7%)
/z/
249 (11.3%)
/a˧/
177 (8%)
/a˥/
95 (4.3%)
/ʃ/
85 (3.9%)
/˥/
84 (3.8%)
/n/
83 (3.8%)
/e˧/
76 (3.5%)
/f/
73 (3.3%)
/i˥/
72 (3.3%)
/m/
68 (3.1%)
/i˧/
61 (2.8%)
/u˧/
59 (2.7%)
/a˩/
56 (2.5%)
/e˥/
56 (2.5%)
/ɹ/
55 (2.5%)
/w/
49 (2.2%)
/d/
48 (2.2%)
/i˩/
45 (2%)
/ɛ˧/
41 (1.9%)
/j/
40 (1.8%)
/o˧/
40 (1.8%)
/˩/
39 (1.8%)
/l/
31 (1.4%)
/ɲ/
30 (1.4%)
/ɛ˥/
26 (1.2%)
/ɦ/
24 (1.1%)
/e˩/
23 (1%)
/ŋ/
23 (1%)
/s/
20 (0.9%)