Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
4 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Uvular | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | · | t | · | k | q | |||||
| Nasal | · | n | · | ŋ | · | |||||
| Trill | · | r | · | · | ʀ | |||||
| Fricative | fv | sz | ʃʒ | xɣ | χʁ | |||||
| Lateral fricative | · | ɬɮ | · | · | · | |||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | |||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Open-mid | · | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(C)(C)Phonological Rules
/q/ → [k] / __i /ŋ/ → [n] / __i
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 360 transcribed dictionary entries (1,741 total tokens)
/a/
156 (9%)
/s/
139 (8%)
/l/
114 (6.5%)
/n/
114 (6.5%)
/i/
110 (6.3%)
/ɔ/
100 (5.7%)
/v/
94 (5.4%)
/ʃ/
94 (5.4%)
/aː/
90 (5.2%)
/iː/
82 (4.7%)
/u/
75 (4.3%)
/k/
72 (4.1%)
/t/
61 (3.5%)
/x/
49 (2.8%)
/r/
46 (2.6%)
/ɔː/
41 (2.4%)
/ɣ/
40 (2.3%)
/ʁ/
37 (2.1%)
/f/
35 (2%)
/uː/
34 (2%)
/q/
33 (1.9%)
/χ/
32 (1.8%)
/z/
30 (1.7%)
/ɬ/
21 (1.2%)
/ɮ/
15 (0.9%)
/ŋ/
14 (0.8%)
/ʒ/
9 (0.5%)
/ʀ/
4 (0.2%)