Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

18 consonants
5 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarUvularGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
·
k
ɢ
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
·
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
r
·
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
sz
ʃ
ʝ
·
·
h
Approximant
·
ʋ
·
·
·
·
·
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
·
u
Close-mid··
o
Near-open
æ
··
Open
a
··

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 64 transcribed dictionary entries (251 total tokens)

/a/
32 (12.7%)
/æ/
25 (10%)
/ʝ/
21 (8.4%)
/m/
20 (8%)
/u/
20 (8%)
/o/
19 (7.6%)
/s/
17 (6.8%)
/n/
14 (5.6%)
/k/
12 (4.8%)
/l/
12 (4.8%)
/r/
10 (4%)
/i/
9 (3.6%)
/t/
8 (3.2%)
/d/
7 (2.8%)
/f/
5 (2%)
/b/
5 (2%)
/v/
5 (2%)
//
3 (1.2%)
/h/
2 (0.8%)
/ɢ/
2 (0.8%)
/ʃ/
1 (0.4%)
/z/
1 (0.4%)
/p/
1 (0.4%)