Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | s | ʃ | · | · | χ | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(V)C(C)VC(C)(V)Phonological Rules
F as the first letter the sound is F, but if its in the middle or the end of a word, it sounds like V H as the first letter the sound is H, but if its in the middle or the end of a word, it sounds like χ
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 134 transcribed dictionary entries (501 total tokens)
/r/
53 (10.6%)
/ɛ/
49 (9.8%)
/a/
42 (8.4%)
/n/
42 (8.4%)
/u/
29 (5.8%)
/o/
28 (5.6%)
/d/
26 (5.2%)
/l/
25 (5%)
/t/
23 (4.6%)
/s/
19 (3.8%)
/k/
18 (3.6%)
/i/
18 (3.6%)
/w/
17 (3.4%)
/m/
15 (3%)
/g/
15 (3%)
/θ/
13 (2.6%)
/ʃ/
13 (2.6%)
/ɛj/
12 (2.4%)
/ɨ/
9 (1.8%)
/b/
9 (1.8%)
/j/
8 (1.6%)
/p/
8 (1.6%)
/æ/
5 (1%)
/ow/
5 (1%)