Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

24 consonants
5 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
·
td
·
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
ŋ
·
Tap/Flap
·
·
·
ɾ
·
·
·
·
Fricative
ɸβ
v
ð
sz
ɕ
ç
ɣ
h
Affricate
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
Approximant
·
·
·
·
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
·
ɯ
Close-mid
e
··
Mid··
Open
a
··

Syllable Structure

CV

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 369 transcribed dictionary entries (2,064 total tokens)

//
373 (18.1%)
//
191 (9.3%)
/ɯ̟/
184 (8.9%)
/k/
157 (7.6%)
/ɾ/
150 (7.3%)
/i/
132 (6.4%)
//
129 (6.3%)
/m/
129 (6.3%)
/t/
98 (4.7%)
/n/
87 (4.2%)
/s/
81 (3.9%)
/ɦ/
50 (2.4%)
/ɕi/
47 (2.3%)
/b/
46 (2.2%)
/p/
39 (1.9%)
/d/
35 (1.7%)
/ɸ/
33 (1.6%)
/g/
29 (1.4%)
//
28 (1.4%)
/j/
19 (0.9%)
/w/
17 (0.8%)
//
6 (0.3%)
/z/
4 (0.2%)