Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
21 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | ɲ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | ʎ | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 110 transcribed dictionary entries (415 total tokens)
/ɛ/
61 (14.7%)
/ɑ/
51 (12.3%)
/n/
36 (8.7%)
/r/
29 (7%)
/d̪/
24 (5.8%)
/g/
21 (5.1%)
/o/
21 (5.1%)
/b/
20 (4.8%)
/u/
19 (4.6%)
/i/
17 (4.1%)
/l̪/
17 (4.1%)
/j/
13 (3.1%)
/v/
12 (2.9%)
/t/
11 (2.7%)
/s/
11 (2.7%)
/m/
11 (2.7%)
/ʃ/
10 (2.4%)
/ʎ/
8 (1.9%)
/k/
7 (1.7%)
/x/
5 (1.2%)
/z/
4 (1%)
/ʒ/
2 (0.5%)
/ɲ/
2 (0.5%)
/p/
2 (0.5%)
/f/
1 (0.2%)