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 302 transcribed dictionary entries (2,325 total tokens)
/a/
374 (16.1%)
/n/
223 (9.6%)
/o/
193 (8.3%)
/i/
189 (8.1%)
/e/
166 (7.1%)
/l/
148 (6.4%)
/s/
139 (6%)
/j/
118 (5.1%)
/v/
114 (4.9%)
/ø/
114 (4.9%)
/m/
96 (4.1%)
/x/
91 (3.9%)
/k/
83 (3.6%)
/p/
72 (3.1%)
/ʒ/
69 (3%)
/ts/
67 (2.9%)
/t/
35 (1.5%)
/f/
31 (1.3%)
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3 (0.1%)