Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
15 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | t | · | · | k | ʔ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | s | · | · | · | h | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | dʒ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 115 transcribed dictionary entries (585 total tokens)
/ʔ/
123 (21%)
/k/
52 (8.9%)
/a/
51 (8.7%)
/'o/
48 (8.2%)
/'u/
48 (8.2%)
/'a/
48 (8.2%)
/'e/
43 (7.4%)
/'i/
22 (3.8%)
/o/
22 (3.8%)
/p/
16 (2.7%)
/f/
16 (2.7%)
/t/
15 (2.6%)
/n/
14 (2.4%)
/ɛ/
12 (2.1%)
/ɾ/
12 (2.1%)
/i/
10 (1.7%)
/l/
8 (1.4%)
/s/
8 (1.4%)
/m/
5 (0.9%)
/j/
4 (0.7%)
/ŋ/
2 (0.3%)
/w/
2 (0.3%)
/dʒ/
2 (0.3%)
/u/
1 (0.2%)
/h/
1 (0.2%)