Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
13 consonants
3 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | td | · | · | · | q | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | s | ʒ | · | ɣ | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phonological Rules
Allowed diphthongs: ai, au and ui.
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 170 transcribed dictionary entries (801 total tokens)
/a/
127 (15.9%)
/u/
120 (15%)
/s/
110 (13.7%)
/i/
102 (12.7%)
/m/
68 (8.5%)
/r/
54 (6.7%)
/n/
45 (5.6%)
/t/
29 (3.6%)
/ɣ/
25 (3.1%)
/d/
23 (2.9%)
/f/
20 (2.5%)
/l/
19 (2.4%)
/p/
19 (2.4%)
/ʒ/
14 (1.7%)
/q/
13 (1.6%)
/j/
13 (1.6%)