Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
15 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | td | · | c | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | z | ʑ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | ɨ | ɯu |
| Close-mid | e | ɵ | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
cvc,cvvc(c)(v)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 73 transcribed dictionary entries (592 total tokens)
/h/
228 (38.5%)
/i/
71 (12%)
/ɯ/
45 (7.6%)
/k/
31 (5.2%)
/d/
23 (3.9%)
/ɵ/
23 (3.9%)
/ɨ/
22 (3.7%)
/t/
21 (3.5%)
/eh/
19 (3.2%)
/l/
16 (2.7%)
/f/
15 (2.5%)
/ʑ/
15 (2.5%)
/y/
14 (2.4%)
/c/
12 (2%)
/a/
8 (1.4%)
/kh/
8 (1.4%)
/e/
7 (1.2%)
/z/
5 (0.8%)
/u/
4 (0.7%)
/w/
2 (0.3%)
/ej/
2 (0.3%)
/p/
1 (0.2%)