Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
13 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | t | · | · | k | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | s | ʒ | · | x | ||||||
| Affricate | · | · | ts | · | · | · | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | · |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(c)(v)(c)v(c)Phonological Rules
iji → ii nj → nja / _#
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 334 transcribed dictionary entries (2,463 total tokens)
/a/
411 (16.7%)
/n/
232 (9.4%)
/o/
204 (8.3%)
/i/
200 (8.1%)
/e/
188 (7.6%)
/l/
166 (6.7%)
/s/
148 (6%)
/ø/
122 (5%)
/j/
122 (5%)
/v/
121 (4.9%)
/m/
109 (4.4%)
/x/
99 (4%)
/k/
97 (3.9%)
/p/
77 (3.1%)
/ʒ/
71 (2.9%)
/t/
45 (1.8%)
/f/
41 (1.7%)
/ts/
10 (0.4%)