Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

13 consonants
9 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarPostalveolarVelarGlottal
Plosive
p
·
·
td
·
k
·
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
·
Tap/Flap
·
·
·
ɾ
·
·
·
Fricative
·
v
θ
s
ʃ
·
h
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
·
u
Near-close
ɪ
·
ʊ
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open-mid
ɛ
·
ɔ
Open
a
··

Syllable Structure

(C)V(C), (C)VV(C)

Phonological Rules

C → Cː / _ + C
V-suffix → high / high-vowel root _
V-suffix → low / low-vowel root _
-um → -im / high-vowel root _
-au → -ou / high-vowel root _
-en → -ren / V _
-ren → -en / C _

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 421 transcribed dictionary entries (2,208 total tokens)

/a/
553 (25%)
/i/
209 (9.5%)
/ɾ/
206 (9.3%)
/ɛ/
172 (7.8%)
/l/
172 (7.8%)
/n/
162 (7.3%)
/m/
132 (6%)
/v/
112 (5.1%)
/ɔ/
86 (3.9%)
/u/
85 (3.8%)
/s/
75 (3.4%)
/d/
54 (2.4%)
/θ/
48 (2.2%)
/t/
41 (1.9%)
/k/
39 (1.8%)
/ʃ/
27 (1.2%)
/p/
26 (1.2%)
/h/
8 (0.4%)
/aɪ/
1 (0%)