Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | s | ʃʒ | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | · | ɵ | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 557 transcribed dictionary entries (4,304 total tokens)
/n/
432 (10%)
/l/
359 (8.3%)
/aː/
313 (7.3%)
/m/
299 (6.9%)
/ɛ/
281 (6.5%)
/r/
272 (6.3%)
/a/
245 (5.7%)
/iː/
227 (5.3%)
/uː/
188 (4.4%)
/i/
172 (4%)
/ʒ/
172 (4%)
/d/
143 (3.3%)
/o/
135 (3.1%)
/ð/
131 (3%)
/θ/
119 (2.8%)
/ɾ/
116 (2.7%)
/y/
109 (2.5%)
/oː/
86 (2%)
/ɵ/
55 (1.3%)
/ʃ/
55 (1.3%)
/g/
53 (1.2%)
/k/
52 (1.2%)
/s̄/
50 (1.2%)
/yː/
50 (1.2%)
/h/
48 (1.1%)
/v/
33 (0.8%)
/w/
30 (0.7%)
/t/
24 (0.6%)
/ɛː/
23 (0.5%)
/ɧ/
18 (0.4%)