Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

12 consonants
5 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialAlveolarVelar
Plosive
pb
td
kɡ
Nasal
m
n
·
Trill
·
r
·
Fricative
·
s
x
Lateral approximant
·
l
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
·
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open·
ä
·

Syllable Structure

(C)VC

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 53 transcribed dictionary entries (197 total tokens)

/ä/
33 (16.8%)
/k/
19 (9.6%)
/o/
18 (9.1%)
/p/
11 (5.6%)
/i/
10 (5.1%)
/e/
10 (5.1%)
/t/
9 (4.6%)
/s/
8 (4.1%)
/l/
8 (4.1%)
//
7 (3.6%)
/b/
7 (3.6%)
/g/
6 (3%)
/m/
6 (3%)
/n/
5 (2.5%)
/d/
5 (2.5%)
/u/
5 (2.5%)
/r/
4 (2%)
/x/
4 (2%)
//
3 (1.5%)
/äː/
3 (1.5%)
/jo/
3 (1.5%)
/ei/
2 (1%)
/oi/
2 (1%)
/äi/
2 (1%)
/äu/
2 (1%)
//
1 (0.5%)
/eu/
1 (0.5%)
/wi/
1 (0.5%)
//
1 (0.5%)
/ju/
1 (0.5%)