Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 345 transcribed dictionary entries (1,776 total tokens)
/a/
185 (10.4%)
/e/
182 (10.2%)
/o/
178 (10%)
/r/
167 (9.4%)
/u/
149 (8.4%)
/i/
140 (7.9%)
/n/
90 (5.1%)
/l/
85 (4.8%)
/t/
80 (4.5%)
/s/
68 (3.8%)
/m/
66 (3.7%)
/k/
57 (3.2%)
/d/
55 (3.1%)
/p/
50 (2.8%)
/ʃ/
46 (2.6%)
/b/
46 (2.6%)
/v/
37 (2.1%)
/f/
25 (1.4%)
/g/
21 (1.2%)
/j/
20 (1.1%)
/z/
13 (0.7%)
/ʒ/
9 (0.5%)
/h/
4 (0.2%)
/w/
3 (0.2%)