Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
23 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | kg | ʔ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | sz | ʃʒ | · | h | |||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | · | ɬɮ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | w | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 9 transcribed dictionary entries (47 total tokens)
/a/
11 (23.4%)
/e/
4 (8.5%)
/ə/
4 (8.5%)
/t/
4 (8.5%)
/m/
2 (4.3%)
/s/
2 (4.3%)
/θ/
2 (4.3%)
/pʷ/
1 (2.1%)
/tʷ/
1 (2.1%)
/ð/
1 (2.1%)
/pʼ/
1 (2.1%)
/u/
1 (2.1%)
/ɬ/
1 (2.1%)
/tʼ/
1 (2.1%)
/f/
1 (2.1%)
/ʔ/
1 (2.1%)
/ŋ/
1 (2.1%)
/v/
1 (2.1%)
/z/
1 (2.1%)
/b/
1 (2.1%)
/d/
1 (2.1%)
/i/
1 (2.1%)
/n/
1 (2.1%)
/gʷ/
1 (2.1%)
/kʼ/
1 (2.1%)