Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
24 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | ɟ | kg | ʔ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | v | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | ʎ | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Mid | e̞ | · | · |
| Open-mid | · | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 638 transcribed dictionary entries (3,099 total tokens)
/a/
500 (16.1%)
/e̞/
263 (8.5%)
/k/
211 (6.8%)
/i/
183 (5.9%)
/u/
177 (5.7%)
/n/
173 (5.6%)
/ɾ/
152 (4.9%)
/t/
134 (4.3%)
/s/
133 (4.3%)
/d/
113 (3.6%)
/ɔ/
101 (3.3%)
/m/
85 (2.7%)
/ɪ/
82 (2.6%)
/ɑ/
81 (2.6%)
/v/
67 (2.2%)
/g/
67 (2.2%)
/p/
60 (1.9%)
/x/
58 (1.9%)
/l/
57 (1.8%)
/z/
52 (1.7%)
/ʒ/
47 (1.5%)
/w/
45 (1.5%)
/ʔ/
41 (1.3%)
/ʃ/
38 (1.2%)
/b/
36 (1.2%)
/h/
32 (1%)
/ɟ/
31 (1%)
/ʎ/
30 (1%)
/j/
27 (0.9%)
/ɲ/
16 (0.5%)