Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | td | · | kg | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Trill | ʙ | · | · | · | · | ʀ | ʜ | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | f | s | ʃ | · | · | · | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | w | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | · | ʟ | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | ä | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 130 transcribed dictionary entries (631 total tokens)
/n/
92 (14.6%)
/i˥/
56 (8.9%)
/o/
55 (8.7%)
/u/
55 (8.7%)
/g/
42 (6.7%)
/h/
42 (6.7%)
/t/
36 (5.7%)
/e/
35 (5.5%)
/s/
32 (5.1%)
/aä/
28 (4.4%)
/k/
26 (4.1%)
/ʃ/
18 (2.9%)
/ʙ/
15 (2.4%)
/a˥/
11 (1.7%)
/ʀ/
11 (1.7%)
/d/
11 (1.7%)
/m/
10 (1.6%)
/i/
10 (1.6%)
/ʜ/
9 (1.4%)
/f/
8 (1.3%)
/w/
7 (1.1%)
/ʟ/
7 (1.1%)
/o˥/
7 (1.1%)
/p/
6 (1%)
/ē˥/
2 (0.3%)