Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

20 consonants
5 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
r
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
sz
ʃ
·
·
h
Affricate
·
·
·
·
·
·
Approximant
·
·
·
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
·
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open
a
··

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 93 transcribed dictionary entries (395 total tokens)

/a/
57 (14.4%)
/i/
41 (10.4%)
/o/
33 (8.4%)
/r/
25 (6.3%)
/s/
24 (6.1%)
/e/
24 (6.1%)
/l/
22 (5.6%)
/k/
19 (4.8%)
/n/
17 (4.3%)
/j/
16 (4.1%)
/m/
15 (3.8%)
/t/
15 (3.8%)
/d/
14 (3.5%)
/b/
14 (3.5%)
/p/
14 (3.5%)
/w/
11 (2.8%)
/h/
7 (1.8%)
/g/
7 (1.8%)
/f/
5 (1.3%)
/u/
5 (1.3%)
/v/
3 (0.8%)
//
3 (0.8%)
//
3 (0.8%)
/ʃ/
1 (0.3%)