Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
24 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | h | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | ts | tʃdʒ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | ʎ | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 109 transcribed dictionary entries (366 total tokens)
/a/
43 (11.7%)
/e/
43 (11.7%)
/i/
34 (9.3%)
/l/
27 (7.4%)
/t/
22 (6%)
/r/
18 (4.9%)
/n/
18 (4.9%)
/o/
16 (4.4%)
/ts/
16 (4.4%)
/s/
15 (4.1%)
/ɨ/
15 (4.1%)
/d/
11 (3%)
/u/
9 (2.5%)
/ʎ/
9 (2.5%)
/m/
8 (2.2%)
/p/
8 (2.2%)
/ɲ/
8 (2.2%)
/b/
7 (1.9%)
/v/
6 (1.6%)
/j/
5 (1.4%)
/z/
5 (1.4%)
/k/
4 (1.1%)
/ʒ/
4 (1.1%)
/dʒ/
3 (0.8%)
/ʃ/
3 (0.8%)
/f/
3 (0.8%)
/g/
3 (0.8%)
/tʃ/
3 (0.8%)