Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | s | · | · | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 187 transcribed dictionary entries (969 total tokens)
/ɑ/
160 (16.5%)
/t/
97 (10%)
/m/
76 (7.8%)
/u/
74 (7.6%)
/k/
66 (6.8%)
/r/
62 (6.4%)
/n/
55 (5.7%)
/i/
54 (5.6%)
/e/
40 (4.1%)
/d/
34 (3.5%)
/l/
34 (3.5%)
/s/
34 (3.5%)
/j/
28 (2.9%)
/b/
27 (2.8%)
/f/
25 (2.6%)
/y/
24 (2.5%)
/g/
24 (2.5%)
/o/
15 (1.5%)
/v/
14 (1.4%)
/h/
12 (1.2%)
/p/
8 (0.8%)
/ks/
3 (0.3%)
/w/
3 (0.3%)