Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

16 consonants
6 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
r
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
s
·
·
h
Approximant
·
·
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
iy
·
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open··
ɑ

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 160 transcribed dictionary entries (839 total tokens)

/ɑ/
136 (16.2%)
/t/
87 (10.4%)
/m/
69 (8.2%)
/u/
67 (8%)
/k/
53 (6.3%)
/n/
50 (6%)
/r/
50 (6%)
/i/
49 (5.8%)
/l/
35 (4.2%)
/e/
33 (3.9%)
/s/
31 (3.7%)
/d/
30 (3.6%)
/j/
24 (2.9%)
/f/
22 (2.6%)
/b/
21 (2.5%)
/g/
20 (2.4%)
/y/
19 (2.3%)
/o/
11 (1.3%)
/h/
11 (1.3%)
/v/
9 (1.1%)
/p/
7 (0.8%)
/w/
3 (0.4%)
/ks/
2 (0.2%)