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)CV(C)(V)(C)Phonological Rules
/s/ → [z] / V_V /f/ → [v] / V_V
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 58 transcribed dictionary entries (226 total tokens)
/n/
26 (11.5%)
/ɛ/
23 (10.2%)
/e/
21 (9.3%)
/s/
20 (8.8%)
/t/
16 (7.1%)
/u/
15 (6.6%)
/l/
11 (4.9%)
/ɹ/
11 (4.9%)
/o/
11 (4.9%)
/d/
10 (4.4%)
/a/
8 (3.5%)
/ɑ/
8 (3.5%)
/g/
7 (3.1%)
/w/
6 (2.7%)
/h/
6 (2.7%)
/b/
6 (2.7%)
/f/
5 (2.2%)
/v/
3 (1.3%)
/k/
3 (1.3%)
/p/
3 (1.3%)
/ʒ/
2 (0.9%)
/m/
2 (0.9%)
/ʌ/
1 (0.4%)
/kʲ/
1 (0.4%)
/z/
1 (0.4%)