Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
26 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | ɲ | · | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃʒ | ç | x | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | ts | tʃ | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | ʎ | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 188 transcribed dictionary entries (780 total tokens)
/i/
91 (11.7%)
/r/
67 (8.6%)
/ʃ/
47 (6%)
/t/
46 (5.9%)
/n/
38 (4.9%)
/m/
38 (4.9%)
/l/
36 (4.6%)
/ɛ/
35 (4.5%)
/ɑ/
33 (4.2%)
/tʃ/
29 (3.7%)
/o/
28 (3.6%)
/d/
26 (3.3%)
/u/
25 (3.2%)
/ɔː/
22 (2.8%)
/ɔ/
21 (2.7%)
/p/
20 (2.6%)
/ɲ/
19 (2.4%)
/ts/
17 (2.2%)
/s/
16 (2.1%)
/v/
15 (1.9%)
/uː/
14 (1.8%)
/-/
13 (1.7%)
/g/
13 (1.7%)
/k/
10 (1.3%)
/b/
10 (1.3%)
/θ/
10 (1.3%)
/f/
8 (1%)
/ʎ/
8 (1%)
/x/
8 (1%)
/w/
4 (0.5%)