Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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%)