Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʒ | · | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | ɹ | · | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | · | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ʌ |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(C)(V)(C)Phonological Rules
/s/ → [z] / V_V /f/ → [v] / V_V
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 114 transcribed dictionary entries (516 total tokens)
/n/
54 (10.5%)
/e/
49 (9.5%)
/s/
47 (9.1%)
/ɛ/
45 (8.7%)
/u/
31 (6%)
/t/
29 (5.6%)
/ɹ/
27 (5.2%)
/a/
26 (5%)
/d/
25 (4.8%)
/o/
24 (4.7%)
/l/
21 (4.1%)
/ɑ/
17 (3.3%)
/ks/
16 (3.1%)
/w/
13 (2.5%)
/b/
13 (2.5%)
/f/
12 (2.3%)
/g/
11 (2.1%)
/h/
11 (2.1%)
/ʒ/
8 (1.6%)
/k/
8 (1.6%)
/p/
7 (1.4%)
/v/
7 (1.4%)
/ʌ/
6 (1.2%)
/m/
5 (1%)
/z/
3 (0.6%)
/kʲ/
1 (0.2%)