Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 86 transcribed dictionary entries (401 total tokens)
/a/
40 (10%)
/i/
35 (8.7%)
/e/
33 (8.2%)
/k/
29 (7.2%)
/o/
26 (6.5%)
/u/
23 (5.7%)
/p/
15 (3.7%)
/s/
14 (3.5%)
/r/
14 (3.5%)
/t/
13 (3.2%)
/ʒ/
13 (3.2%)
/ɑ/
12 (3%)
/d/
12 (3%)
/g/
10 (2.5%)
/ã/
10 (2.5%)
/m/
10 (2.5%)
/y/
10 (2.5%)
/l/
10 (2.5%)
/b/
9 (2.2%)
/ʃ/
9 (2.2%)
/n/
8 (2%)
/v/
8 (2%)
/ẽ/
6 (1.5%)
/ø/
6 (1.5%)
/f/
6 (1.5%)
/x/
6 (1.5%)
/h/
5 (1.2%)
/z/
4 (1%)
/j/
3 (0.7%)
/w/
2 (0.5%)