Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
21 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | q | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | · | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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%)