Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | c | kg | q | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | · | x | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | 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 99 transcribed dictionary entries (393 total tokens)
/r/
54 (13.7%)
/e/
53 (13.5%)
/h/
39 (9.9%)
/o/
30 (7.6%)
/ae/
23 (5.9%)
/l/
22 (5.6%)
/a/
21 (5.3%)
/y/
18 (4.6%)
/f/
14 (3.6%)
/u/
13 (3.3%)
/s/
11 (2.8%)
/i/
11 (2.8%)
/sh/
10 (2.5%)
/k/
8 (2%)
/th/
8 (2%)
/m/
7 (1.8%)
/zh/
7 (1.8%)
/oe/
7 (1.8%)
/sz/
7 (1.8%)
/eu/
7 (1.8%)
/n/
5 (1.3%)
/t/
4 (1%)
/j/
3 (0.8%)
/w/
3 (0.8%)
/g/
2 (0.5%)
/p/
2 (0.5%)
/v/
2 (0.5%)
/c/
1 (0.3%)
/q/
1 (0.3%)