Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
21 consonants
10 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | td | · | ɖ | c | · | q | ʔ | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | · | · | · | · | ɴ | · | |||||||||
| Trill | ʙ | · | · | · | · | · | · | ʀ | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | · | z | ɕʑ | ʐ | çʝ | · | χ | · | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | · | · | · | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | · | · | · | ʟ | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | · | · | ɯ |
| Near-close | ɪʏ | · | · |
| Close-mid | · | ɘ | · |
| Open-mid | œ | · | · |
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | · |
| Open | ɶ | ä | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 55 transcribed dictionary entries (358 total tokens)
/æ/
43 (12%)
/w/
41 (11.5%)
/ɴ/
33 (9.2%)
/ɐ/
28 (7.8%)
/ɑ/
27 (7.5%)
/p/
25 (7%)
/q/
22 (6.1%)
/ʑ/
16 (4.5%)
/ɖ/
15 (4.2%)
/ɯ/
14 (3.9%)
/ä/
13 (3.6%)
/ɕ/
11 (3.1%)
/ʋ/
9 (2.5%)
/χ/
9 (2.5%)
/t̪/
8 (2.2%)
/ʟ/
7 (2%)
/ʙ/
7 (2%)
/m̼/
7 (2%)
/c/
6 (1.7%)
/z/
5 (1.4%)
/ç/
4 (1.1%)
/ʝ/
4 (1.1%)
/ʀ/
2 (0.6%)
/ʔ/
1 (0.3%)
/œ/
1 (0.3%)