Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | s | ʃ | · | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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%)
/aʊ/
1 (0.1%)