Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

21 consonants
12 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
·
td
·
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
θ
sz
ʃʒ
·
x
h
Approximant
·
·
·
ɹ
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
iy
·
u
Near-close
ɪ
·
ʊ
Close-mid
eø
·
o
Open-mid
ɛ
·
ɔ
Near-open
æ
··
Open
a
··

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 238 transcribed dictionary entries (1,164 total tokens)

/a/
108 (9.3%)
/ɹ/
91 (7.8%)
/n/
89 (7.6%)
/k/
81 (7%)
/l/
70 (6%)
/ɛ/
63 (5.4%)
/s/
59 (5.1%)
/t/
58 (5%)
/e/
53 (4.6%)
/v/
41 (3.5%)
/d/
40 (3.4%)
/o/
39 (3.4%)
/m/
36 (3.1%)
/i/
31 (2.7%)
/ɪ/
30 (2.6%)
/j/
26 (2.2%)
/ʃ/
23 (2%)
/f/
21 (1.8%)
/ø/
21 (1.8%)
/u/
19 (1.6%)
//
17 (1.5%)
/θ/
16 (1.4%)
//
15 (1.3%)
/g/
13 (1.1%)
/p/
12 (1%)
/y/
11 (0.9%)
/x/
11 (0.9%)
/h/
11 (0.9%)
/b/
11 (0.9%)
//
9 (0.8%)