Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
21 consonants
12 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | ɹ | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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%)
/aː/
17 (1.5%)
/θ/
16 (1.4%)
/aɪ/
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%)
/iː/
9 (0.8%)