Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
13 consonants
4 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | · | · | · | td | g | q | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | · | · | ʀ | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | θ | · | xɣ | · | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C/V)Phonological Rules
/q/ → [k] / before /u/ and /ui/ /u/ → [uː] / after /f/
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 22 transcribed dictionary entries (74 total tokens)
/a/
9 (12.2%)
/n/
9 (12.2%)
/e/
8 (10.8%)
/l/
7 (9.5%)
/ia/
7 (9.5%)
/u/
5 (6.8%)
/ʀ/
4 (5.4%)
/i/
4 (5.4%)
/θ/
4 (5.4%)
/ui/
4 (5.4%)
/d/
3 (4.1%)
/f/
3 (4.1%)
/m/
2 (2.7%)
/h/
1 (1.4%)
/g/
1 (1.4%)
/q/
1 (1.4%)
/ɣ/
1 (1.4%)
/t/
1 (1.4%)