Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
26 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | ɖ | · | kg | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ɲ | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | ɸβ | fv | θð | sz | ʃʒ | · | ʝ | x | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | · | j | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | ʎ | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | · | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phonological Rules
/s/ - [z] #V_V voicing between vowels /sĭ/ - [ʒ] #V_V voicing between vowels /a/, /e/ sound like opened in the start of the words
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 205 transcribed dictionary entries (1,138 total tokens)
/i/
132 (11.6%)
/a/
109 (9.6%)
/r/
89 (7.8%)
/e/
80 (7%)
/t/
73 (6.4%)
/ɔ/
58 (5.1%)
/u/
52 (4.6%)
/ɖ/
33 (2.9%)
/g/
32 (2.8%)
/y/
32 (2.8%)
/b/
32 (2.8%)
/k/
31 (2.7%)
/ɲ/
29 (2.5%)
/o/
28 (2.5%)
/n/
25 (2.2%)
/s/
24 (2.1%)
/ʎ/
23 (2%)
/j/
22 (1.9%)
/x/
20 (1.8%)
/m/
20 (1.8%)
/v/
19 (1.7%)
/ʃ/
19 (1.7%)
/ʝ/
18 (1.6%)
/ð/
17 (1.5%)
/l/
17 (1.5%)
/f/
17 (1.5%)
/p/
16 (1.4%)
/β/
16 (1.4%)
/ɸ/
15 (1.3%)
/vː/
15 (1.3%)