Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

16 consonants
6 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
r
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
s
·
·
h
Approximant
·
·
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
iy
·
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open··
ɑ

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 91 transcribed dictionary entries (557 total tokens)

/ɑ/
97 (17.4%)
/t/
61 (11%)
/m/
44 (7.9%)
/o/
36 (6.5%)
/u/
34 (6.1%)
/r/
30 (5.4%)
/n/
30 (5.4%)
/i/
28 (5%)
/k/
25 (4.5%)
/l/
25 (4.5%)
/s/
22 (3.9%)
/e/
18 (3.2%)
/d/
17 (3.1%)
/g/
16 (2.9%)
/w/
14 (2.5%)
/b/
14 (2.5%)
/f/
13 (2.3%)
/j/
10 (1.8%)
/h/
10 (1.8%)
/y/
6 (1.1%)
/v/
3 (0.5%)
/p/
3 (0.5%)
/ks/
1 (0.2%)