Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
23 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kɡ | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃ | · | ɣ | ɦ | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | ɹ | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(V)CVPhoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 453 transcribed dictionary entries (1,917 total tokens)
/a˧/
145 (7.6%)
/k/
134 (7%)
/a˥/
87 (4.5%)
/b/
84 (4.4%)
/t/
71 (3.7%)
/ʃ/
67 (3.5%)
/˥/
66 (3.4%)
/u˧/
65 (3.4%)
/f/
64 (3.3%)
/i˥/
61 (3.2%)
/m/
54 (2.8%)
/z/
54 (2.8%)
/n/
51 (2.7%)
/d/
51 (2.7%)
/e˧/
50 (2.6%)
/i˧/
50 (2.6%)
/a˩/
47 (2.5%)
/g/
46 (2.4%)
/e˥/
45 (2.3%)
/p/
41 (2.1%)
/ɹ/
41 (2.1%)
/ɛ˧/
41 (2.1%)
/i˩/
38 (2%)
/w/
36 (1.9%)
/j/
35 (1.8%)
/o˧/
33 (1.7%)
/kʷ/
31 (1.6%)
/˩/
30 (1.6%)
/ɲ/
28 (1.5%)
/l/
28 (1.5%)