Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
21 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | s | ʃ | · | · | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | ts | tʃ | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | e | ɵ | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 150 transcribed dictionary entries (448 total tokens)
/e/
60 (13.4%)
/a/
51 (11.4%)
/n/
31 (6.9%)
/r/
30 (6.7%)
/l/
28 (6.3%)
/s/
21 (4.7%)
/m/
21 (4.7%)
/o/
20 (4.5%)
/k/
19 (4.2%)
/p/
14 (3.1%)
/d/
14 (3.1%)
/ɪ/
14 (3.1%)
/ts/
14 (3.1%)
/t/
14 (3.1%)
/u/
12 (2.7%)
/i/
11 (2.5%)
/b/
11 (2.5%)
/ai/
9 (2%)
/tʃ/
9 (2%)
/h/
7 (1.6%)
/v/
6 (1.3%)
/ɵ/
6 (1.3%)
/g/
4 (0.9%)
/θ/
4 (0.9%)
/f/
3 (0.7%)
/ei/
3 (0.7%)
/ʃ/
3 (0.7%)
/oi/
3 (0.7%)
/ŋ/
3 (0.7%)
/w/
2 (0.4%)