Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | d | · | ʈ | · | kg | · | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ɲ | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | · | ʁ | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛœ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)Phonological Rules
/ə/ → [ɛː] / C_C
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 202 transcribed dictionary entries (1,097 total tokens)
/ə/
98 (8.9%)
/i/
96 (8.8%)
/a/
86 (7.8%)
/s/
84 (7.7%)
/ʁ/
83 (7.6%)
/o/
81 (7.4%)
/ʈ/
74 (6.7%)
/n/
62 (5.7%)
/k/
53 (4.8%)
/l/
51 (4.6%)
/u/
49 (4.5%)
/m/
43 (3.9%)
/d/
32 (2.9%)
/ɛː/
28 (2.6%)
/p/
27 (2.5%)
/ʃ/
21 (1.9%)
/b/
20 (1.8%)
/y/
18 (1.6%)
/v/
17 (1.5%)
/f/
15 (1.4%)
/g/
14 (1.3%)
/e/
14 (1.3%)
/h/
11 (1%)
/ks/
6 (0.5%)
/œ/
5 (0.5%)
/ʒ/
4 (0.4%)
/j/
2 (0.2%)
/z/
1 (0.1%)
/w/
1 (0.1%)
/ɲ/
1 (0.1%)