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 357 transcribed dictionary entries (1,778 total tokens)

/g/
351 (19.7%)
//
196 (11%)
/w/
119 (6.7%)
/t/
118 (6.6%)
/v/
116 (6.5%)
//
82 (4.6%)
/j/
78 (4.4%)
/f/
59 (3.3%)
//
54 (3%)
/˥/
52 (2.9%)
/ʃ/
48 (2.7%)
//
47 (2.6%)
//
40 (2.2%)
//
39 (2.2%)
//
38 (2.1%)
//
31 (1.7%)
/ɛ˧/
29 (1.6%)
/l/
26 (1.5%)
/ɲ/
25 (1.4%)
//
24 (1.3%)
/ɹ/
24 (1.3%)
/ɛ˥/
24 (1.3%)
/˩/
23 (1.3%)
/ŋ/
21 (1.2%)
/ɦ/
20 (1.1%)
//
16 (0.9%)
/z/
16 (0.9%)
/ɣ/
15 (0.8%)
//
13 (0.7%)
/ɡʷ/
10 (0.6%)