Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
12 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | · | t | · | g | |||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | |||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | |||||
| Fricative | · | f | z | · | x | |||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | w | |||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | |||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(V)(V)(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 597 transcribed dictionary entries (3,245 total tokens)
/i/
317 (9.8%)
/a/
310 (9.6%)
/m/
269 (8.3%)
/u/
252 (7.8%)
/l/
220 (6.8%)
/ɛ/
219 (6.7%)
/f/
211 (6.5%)
/g/
181 (5.6%)
/r/
171 (5.3%)
/ə/
160 (4.9%)
/n/
153 (4.7%)
/t/
152 (4.7%)
/x/
143 (4.4%)
/w/
101 (3.1%)
/b/
99 (3.1%)
/z/
77 (2.4%)
/ta/
74 (2.3%)
/j/
60 (1.8%)
/ɛl/
33 (1%)
/o/
16 (0.5%)
/fu/
12 (0.4%)
/ʔ/
6 (0.2%)
/ʃ/
6 (0.2%)
/h/
3 (0.1%)