Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
21 consonants
10 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | · | · | cɟ | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | · | ɕ | çʝ | ʍɣ | ɦ | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 61 transcribed dictionary entries (166 total tokens)
/n̪/
21 (12.7%)
/t̪/
19 (11.4%)
/s̪/
14 (8.4%)
/m/
13 (7.8%)
/k/
11 (6.6%)
/r/
11 (6.6%)
/f/
10 (6%)
/d̪/
9 (5.4%)
/u/
9 (5.4%)
/oː/
6 (3.6%)
/eː/
6 (3.6%)
/iː/
5 (3%)
/b/
4 (2.4%)
/w/
4 (2.4%)
/g/
4 (2.4%)
/x/
4 (2.4%)
/ɑː/
3 (1.8%)
/ɣ/
3 (1.8%)
/ɕ/
2 (1.2%)
/p/
2 (1.2%)
/ð/
2 (1.2%)
/θ/
2 (1.2%)
/yː/
1 (0.6%)
/l̪/
1 (0.6%)