Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
23 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | q | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | |||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | · | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
CV(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 216 transcribed dictionary entries (1,021 total tokens)
/a/
118 (11.6%)
/e/
83 (8.1%)
/n/
82 (8%)
/t/
72 (7.1%)
/k/
71 (7%)
/aː/
53 (5.2%)
/o/
46 (4.5%)
/u/
41 (4%)
/ʒ/
39 (3.8%)
/s/
36 (3.5%)
/i/
36 (3.5%)
/eː/
33 (3.2%)
/r/
33 (3.2%)
/g/
30 (2.9%)
/d/
30 (2.9%)
/m/
26 (2.5%)
/p/
23 (2.3%)
/θ/
18 (1.8%)
/v/
18 (1.8%)
/l/
15 (1.5%)
/ʃ/
14 (1.4%)
/oː/
14 (1.4%)
/ð/
13 (1.3%)
/f/
13 (1.3%)
/b/
12 (1.2%)
/iː/
11 (1.1%)
/h/
10 (1%)
/uː/
9 (0.9%)
/j/
7 (0.7%)
/w/
6 (0.6%)