Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
26 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | ɣ | χ | |||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | ɬɮ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | ts | tʃ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | œ | · | · |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(R)V(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 373 transcribed dictionary entries (1,309 total tokens)
/s/
111 (8.5%)
/r/
110 (8.4%)
/a/
86 (6.6%)
/e/
77 (5.9%)
/t/
77 (5.9%)
/w/
71 (5.4%)
/l/
71 (5.4%)
/n/
70 (5.3%)
/g/
60 (4.6%)
/i/
59 (4.5%)
/o/
58 (4.4%)
/k/
46 (3.5%)
/p/
46 (3.5%)
/u/
43 (3.3%)
/v/
40 (3.1%)
/f/
38 (2.9%)
/d/
36 (2.8%)
/b/
31 (2.4%)
/œ/
31 (2.4%)
/æ/
28 (2.1%)
/m/
23 (1.8%)
/x/
22 (1.7%)
/ʃ/
13 (1%)
/ŋ/
12 (0.9%)
/ɬ/
12 (0.9%)
/ɲ/
12 (0.9%)
/ɣ/
11 (0.8%)
/ʒ/
8 (0.6%)
/j/
4 (0.3%)
/ɮ/
2 (0.2%)