Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | · | d | · | · | kɡ | · | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | s | ʃ | · | · | χ | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | ɹ | · | j | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ʌ |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 6 transcribed dictionary entries (18 total tokens)
/ɛ/
7 (38.9%)
/sː/
4 (22.2%)
/ɑ/
3 (16.7%)
/ʃ/
3 (16.7%)
/χ/
1 (5.6%)