Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

16 consonants
8 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarPostalveolarVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
·
td
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
·
Tap/Flap
·
·
·
ɾ
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
θ
s
ʃ
·
h
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
·
u
Near-close
ɪ
·
ʊ
Close-mid
e
··
Open-mid
ɛ
·
ɔ
Open
a
··

Syllable Structure

(C)VC, (C)V(C)

Phonological Rules

r → ɾ / V_V
th → θ / _
sh → ʃ / _
ae → aɪ / _
ei → eɪ / _
au → aʊ / _

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 382 transcribed dictionary entries (1,637 total tokens)

/a/
202 (12.3%)
/ɾ/
140 (8.6%)
/ɛ/
127 (7.8%)
/k/
126 (7.7%)
/n/
117 (7.1%)
/t/
116 (7.1%)
/l/
108 (6.6%)
/s/
99 (6%)
/v/
88 (5.4%)
/i/
86 (5.3%)
/ɔ/
86 (5.3%)
/d/
81 (4.9%)
/m/
70 (4.3%)
/u/
58 (3.5%)
/p/
44 (2.7%)
/f/
30 (1.8%)
/g/
28 (1.7%)
/b/
13 (0.8%)
/h/
13 (0.8%)
/θ/
4 (0.2%)
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