Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | · | td | · | · | · | kg | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | ŋ | · | |||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | ð | sz | ɕ | · | · | x | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | ɻ | j | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛœ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)(C)(C)(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 92 transcribed dictionary entries (420 total tokens)
/ə/
61 (14.5%)
/g/
42 (10%)
/a/
37 (8.8%)
/i/
34 (8.1%)
/ð/
32 (7.6%)
/o/
31 (7.4%)
/t/
28 (6.7%)
/d/
22 (5.2%)
/s/
21 (5%)
/n/
19 (4.5%)
/k/
19 (4.5%)
/v/
13 (3.1%)
/m/
8 (1.9%)
/ɕ/
7 (1.7%)
/x/
6 (1.4%)
/f/
5 (1.2%)
/h/
5 (1.2%)
/l/
5 (1.2%)
/z/
4 (1%)
/pʰ/
4 (1%)
/j/
4 (1%)
/p/
3 (0.7%)
/œ̃/
3 (0.7%)
/u/
3 (0.7%)
/ɛ̃/
3 (0.7%)
/ã/
1 (0.2%)