Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
18 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | · | t | · | · | k | ʔ | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | f | θ | s | ʃ | · | x | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | ʎ | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)Phonological Rules
/p/ → [ʔ] / _# /t/ → [ʔ] / _# /k/ → [ʔ] / _# /tl/ → /ʃ/ /_
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 162 transcribed dictionary entries (839 total tokens)
/a/
74 (8.8%)
/e/
68 (8.1%)
/o/
61 (7.3%)
/i/
49 (5.8%)
/u/
47 (5.6%)
/n/
43 (5.1%)
/k/
43 (5.1%)
/r/
40 (4.8%)
/ʔ/
39 (4.6%)
/ʎ/
33 (3.9%)
/w/
32 (3.8%)
/l/
32 (3.8%)
/ʃ/
31 (3.7%)
/ɛ/
28 (3.3%)
/ɔ/
27 (3.2%)
/j/
27 (3.2%)
/h/
26 (3.1%)
/θ/
21 (2.5%)
/t/
21 (2.5%)
/s/
20 (2.4%)
/ŋ/
20 (2.4%)
/m/
19 (2.3%)
/p/
18 (2.1%)
/x/
10 (1.2%)
/f/
10 (1.2%)