Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
13 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | · | · | · | k | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | θ | s | ç | · | ɦ | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | ts | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | · | j | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ʉ | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | · | ä | · |
Phonological Rules
/p/ → [pʲ] / {_e, _i}
/k/ → [kʲ] / {_e, _i}
/m/ → [mʲ] / {_e, _i}
/n/ → [nʲ] / {_e, _i}
/f/ → [fʲ] / {_e, _i}
/s/ → [sʲ] / {_e, _i}
/ts/ → [tsʲ] / {_e, _i}
/l/ → [lʲ] / {_e, _i}
/n/ → [η] / _k
/ʋ/ → [w] / {_ʉ, _u, _o, ʉ_, u_, o_}Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 2 transcribed dictionary entries (10 total tokens)
/ä/
2 (20%)
/s/
1 (10%)
/i/
1 (10%)
/l/
1 (10%)
/n/
1 (10%)
/θ/
1 (10%)
/o/
1 (10%)
/ʋ/
1 (10%)
/e/
1 (10%)