Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
22 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | c | kg | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃ | · | · | x | h | |||||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | · | ɮ | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | · | · | ɭ | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 11 transcribed dictionary entries (29 total tokens)
/ɭ/
5 (17.2%)
/o/
5 (17.2%)
/d/
4 (13.8%)
/i/
3 (10.3%)
/n/
3 (10.3%)
/v/
3 (10.3%)
/æ/
2 (6.9%)
/j/
1 (3.4%)
/a/
1 (3.4%)
/m/
1 (3.4%)
/t/
1 (3.4%)