Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | s | · | · | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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%)