Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

15 consonants
6 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
t
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
r
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
s
ʝ
·
h
Approximant
·
·
·
·
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
iy
·
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open
a
··

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 37 transcribed dictionary entries (120 total tokens)

/e/
18 (15%)
/n/
15 (12.5%)
/a/
15 (12.5%)
/o/
10 (8.3%)
/s/
10 (8.3%)
/l/
9 (7.5%)
/t/
7 (5.8%)
/m/
6 (5%)
/i/
6 (5%)
/u/
6 (5%)
/k/
5 (4.2%)
/w/
3 (2.5%)
/v/
2 (1.7%)
/g/
2 (1.7%)
/r/
2 (1.7%)
/h/
1 (0.8%)
/ʝ/
1 (0.8%)
/b/
1 (0.8%)
/p/
1 (0.8%)