Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

21 consonants
6 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarUvularGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
·
kg
q
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
·
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
r
·
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
sz
ʃʒ
·
x
·
h
Approximant
·
·
·
·
j
w
·
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

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

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 977 transcribed dictionary entries (4,427 total tokens)

/e/
560 (12.6%)
/d/
354 (8%)
/n/
339 (7.7%)
/a/
319 (7.2%)
/r/
311 (7%)
/k/
288 (6.5%)
/t/
279 (6.3%)
/o/
242 (5.5%)
/i/
215 (4.9%)
/l/
206 (4.7%)
/v/
203 (4.6%)
/z/
199 (4.5%)
/s/
189 (4.3%)
/u/
124 (2.8%)
/m/
91 (2.1%)
/g/
84 (1.9%)
/j/
68 (1.5%)
/p/
64 (1.4%)
/ir/
63 (1.4%)
/b/
61 (1.4%)
/w/
56 (1.3%)
/f/
36 (0.8%)
/ʒ/
34 (0.8%)
/h/
25 (0.6%)
/y/
11 (0.2%)
/x/
6 (0.1%)