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Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

19 consonants
6 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
ɲ
·
·
Trill
·
·
r
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
sz
ʃʒ
·
·
h
Approximant
·
·
·
·
·
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
iy
·
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open
a
··

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 206 transcribed dictionary entries (993 total tokens)

/u/
123 (12.4%)
/o/
117 (11.8%)
/i/
117 (11.8%)
/e/
114 (11.5%)
/z/
54 (5.4%)
/f/
45 (4.5%)
/l/
41 (4.1%)
/n/
37 (3.7%)
/k/
37 (3.7%)
/s/
37 (3.7%)
/m/
35 (3.5%)
/r/
33 (3.3%)
/v/
27 (2.7%)
/t/
26 (2.6%)
/ɲ/
26 (2.6%)
/w/
24 (2.4%)
/b/
21 (2.1%)
/g/
21 (2.1%)
/h/
20 (2%)
/p/
19 (1.9%)
/d/
18 (1.8%)
/ḓ/
1 (0.1%)
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