Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
12 consonants
4 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | t | · | k | · | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | · | ŋ | · | |||||
| Fricative | · | s | · | · | h | |||||
| Lateral fricative | · | ɮ | · | · | · | |||||
| Approximant | · | · | j | w | · | |||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | |||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | ɯ |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 344 transcribed dictionary entries (1,371 total tokens)
/i/
198 (14.4%)
/e/
177 (12.9%)
/ɯ/
153 (11.2%)
/o/
146 (10.6%)
/m/
139 (10.1%)
/n/
96 (7%)
/k/
74 (5.4%)
/s/
55 (4%)
/t/
54 (3.9%)
/l/
52 (3.8%)
/p/
51 (3.7%)
/ŋ/
46 (3.4%)
/h/
43 (3.1%)
/j/
32 (2.3%)
/w/
29 (2.1%)
/ɮ/
26 (1.9%)