Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
13 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | · | td | · | k | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | v | θ | s | ʃ | · | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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%)