Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | · | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ɲ | ŋ | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | f | s | ʃ | · | · | · | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃ | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | · | ɭ | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 133 transcribed dictionary entries (622 total tokens)
/a/
89 (14.3%)
/i/
85 (13.7%)
/k/
66 (10.6%)
/u/
61 (9.8%)
/e/
48 (7.7%)
/o/
42 (6.8%)
/m/
27 (4.3%)
/t/
24 (3.9%)
/p/
22 (3.5%)
/n/
21 (3.4%)
/ɲ/
20 (3.2%)
/ɭ/
19 (3.1%)
/ŋ/
17 (2.7%)
/v/
14 (2.3%)
/ʃ/
13 (2.1%)
/g/
12 (1.9%)
/b/
11 (1.8%)
/r/
11 (1.8%)
/f/
8 (1.3%)
/d/
5 (0.8%)
/h/
4 (0.6%)
/s/
3 (0.5%)