Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
14 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | td | · | k | |||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | |||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | |||||
| Fricative | · | · | s | ç | x | |||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | j | · | |||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | ʎ | · | |||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Near-close | · | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
(C)(L)(j)V(V)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 593 transcribed dictionary entries (2,770 total tokens)
/i/
222 (8%)
/a/
204 (7.4%)
/l/
185 (6.7%)
/t/
159 (5.7%)
/n/
156 (5.6%)
/e/
152 (5.5%)
/s/
137 (4.9%)
/r/
129 (4.7%)
/ø/
124 (4.5%)
/o/
106 (3.8%)
/ɑ/
99 (3.6%)
/ʋ/
91 (3.3%)
/k/
87 (3.1%)
/y/
86 (3.1%)
/u/
86 (3.1%)
/d/
78 (2.8%)
/p/
66 (2.4%)
/m/
65 (2.3%)
/j/
39 (1.4%)
/x/
38 (1.4%)
/ʊ/
36 (1.3%)
/u̯/
35 (1.3%)
/ʎ/
30 (1.1%)
/ç/
30 (1.1%)
/e̯/
29 (1%)
/lː/
28 (1%)
/a̯/
26 (0.9%)
/ɑː/
24 (0.9%)
/o̯/
22 (0.8%)
/aː/
21 (0.8%)