Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
24 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kɡ | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | β | f | ð | sz | ʃʑ | · | ɣ | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 369 transcribed dictionary entries (1,557 total tokens)
/i/
160 (10.3%)
/u/
148 (9.5%)
/e/
141 (9.1%)
/o/
129 (8.3%)
/a/
79 (5.1%)
/s/
70 (4.5%)
/w/
64 (4.1%)
/k/
63 (4%)
/l/
62 (4%)
/z/
62 (4%)
/n/
59 (3.8%)
/m/
57 (3.7%)
/t/
53 (3.4%)
/p/
47 (3%)
/g/
44 (2.8%)
/f/
44 (2.8%)
/b/
35 (2.2%)
/d/
35 (2.2%)
/j/
33 (2.1%)
/h/
28 (1.8%)
/nʲ/
21 (1.3%)
/β/
21 (1.3%)
/dʲ/
13 (0.8%)
/kʰ/
11 (0.7%)
/tʰ/
11 (0.7%)
/ɡʲ/
11 (0.7%)
/ŋ/
10 (0.6%)
/lʲ/
8 (0.5%)
/ʃ/
8 (0.5%)
/pʰ/
7 (0.4%)