Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ç | xɣ | ʁ | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | · | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | ø̞ | · | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 118 transcribed dictionary entries (434 total tokens)
/n/
63 (14.5%)
/t/
58 (13.4%)
/r/
41 (9.4%)
/ɛ/
31 (7.1%)
/s/
27 (6.2%)
/l/
25 (5.8%)
/i/
22 (5.1%)
/k/
21 (4.8%)
/v/
19 (4.4%)
/f/
19 (4.4%)
/d/
16 (3.7%)
/e/
16 (3.7%)
/o/
13 (3%)
/x/
13 (3%)
/m/
10 (2.3%)
/b/
7 (1.6%)
/z/
6 (1.4%)
/ɣ/
6 (1.4%)
/h/
5 (1.2%)
/u/
5 (1.2%)
/j/
4 (0.9%)
/ç/
2 (0.5%)
/p/
2 (0.5%)
/ɑ/
1 (0.2%)
/g/
1 (0.2%)
/y/
1 (0.2%)