Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
24 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | ʔ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | h | |||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | ɬ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Open-mid | ɛœ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 50 transcribed dictionary entries (238 total tokens)
/a/
46 (19.3%)
/ɛ/
21 (8.8%)
/k/
16 (6.7%)
/t/
15 (6.3%)
/r/
13 (5.5%)
/d/
12 (5%)
/i/
10 (4.2%)
/ʃ/
9 (3.8%)
/u/
8 (3.4%)
/ʒ/
8 (3.4%)
/ɬ/
8 (3.4%)
/n/
8 (3.4%)
/g/
6 (2.5%)
/v/
6 (2.5%)
/l/
6 (2.5%)
/ʊ/
6 (2.5%)
/j/
5 (2.1%)
/ɪ/
5 (2.1%)
/w/
4 (1.7%)
/œ/
4 (1.7%)
/ʔ/
4 (1.7%)
/s/
4 (1.7%)
/m/
3 (1.3%)
/p/
2 (0.8%)
/f/
2 (0.8%)
/x/
2 (0.8%)
/ɲ/
2 (0.8%)
/ɔ/
1 (0.4%)
/b/
1 (0.4%)
/z/
1 (0.4%)