Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | ɟ | k | · | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | χ | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ʏ | · | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 213 transcribed dictionary entries (826 total tokens)
/a/
189 (22.9%)
/i/
77 (9.3%)
/r/
63 (7.6%)
/u/
48 (5.8%)
/l/
48 (5.8%)
/m/
44 (5.3%)
/n/
43 (5.2%)
/v/
40 (4.8%)
/e/
36 (4.4%)
/s/
28 (3.4%)
/o/
26 (3.1%)
/χ/
21 (2.5%)
/k/
20 (2.4%)
/ə/
14 (1.7%)
/ʏ/
14 (1.7%)
/t/
13 (1.6%)
/d/
13 (1.6%)
/z/
12 (1.5%)
/b/
11 (1.3%)
/ʃ/
10 (1.2%)
/p/
10 (1.2%)
/ɟ/
8 (1%)
/h/
8 (1%)
/je/
7 (0.8%)
/ŋ/
6 (0.7%)
/j/
6 (0.7%)
/ʒ/
6 (0.7%)
/f/
5 (0.6%)