Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
12 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | · | · | · | k | · | ||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | v | ð | · | ʃ | · | xɣ | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | ø | · | · |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | · | ä | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)Phonological Rules
/ɣ/ → [x] / _C /h/ → [xʰ] / _# /h/ → [xʰ] / V_V
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 203 transcribed dictionary entries (548 total tokens)
/ä/
75 (13.7%)
/i/
60 (10.9%)
/k/
56 (10.2%)
/ɛ/
56 (10.2%)
/t̪/
40 (7.3%)
/b/
36 (6.6%)
/ɔ/
35 (6.4%)
/ɛi/
29 (5.3%)
/p/
28 (5.1%)
/ɾ/
26 (4.7%)
/ø/
25 (4.6%)
/ʃ/
17 (3.1%)
/j/
17 (3.1%)
/ð/
17 (3.1%)
/w/
11 (2%)
/n̪/
7 (1.3%)
/l̪/
5 (0.9%)
/s̪/
5 (0.9%)
/u/
2 (0.4%)
/v/
1 (0.2%)