Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
18 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | ɹ | · | 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 122 transcribed dictionary entries (627 total tokens)
/a/
83 (13.2%)
/o/
77 (12.3%)
/t/
59 (9.4%)
/e/
53 (8.5%)
/n/
46 (7.3%)
/s/
40 (6.4%)
/ɹ/
36 (5.7%)
/d/
30 (4.8%)
/w/
25 (4%)
/m/
25 (4%)
/i/
23 (3.7%)
/k/
22 (3.5%)
/p/
21 (3.3%)
/z/
17 (2.7%)
/u/
15 (2.4%)
/f/
12 (1.9%)
/l/
11 (1.8%)
/b/
11 (1.8%)
/j/
9 (1.4%)
/ʃ/
6 (1%)
/v/
3 (0.5%)
/ʒ/
2 (0.3%)
/g/
1 (0.2%)