Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kɡ | · | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ɴ | · | |||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | sz | ʃ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 63 transcribed dictionary entries (272 total tokens)
/a/
42 (15.4%)
/i/
34 (12.5%)
/o/
31 (11.4%)
/n/
23 (8.5%)
/k/
22 (8.1%)
/m/
21 (7.7%)
/s/
15 (5.5%)
/e/
14 (5.1%)
/l/
13 (4.8%)
/u/
12 (4.4%)
/t/
9 (3.3%)
/d/
7 (2.6%)
/ɡ/
6 (2.2%)
/f/
6 (2.2%)
/ɾ/
4 (1.5%)
/b/
4 (1.5%)
/z/
4 (1.5%)
/p/
2 (0.7%)
/ɴ/
2 (0.7%)
/ʃ/
1 (0.4%)