Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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%)
/tʃ/
3 (0.8%)
/dʒ/
3 (0.8%)
/ʃ/
1 (0.3%)