Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
22 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | q | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | ts | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 147 transcribed dictionary entries (641 total tokens)
/a/
75 (11.7%)
/e/
42 (6.6%)
/u/
32 (5%)
/t/
27 (4.2%)
/k/
26 (4.1%)
/g/
25 (3.9%)
/ʒ/
24 (3.7%)
/ã/
23 (3.6%)
/aː/
23 (3.6%)
/i/
23 (3.6%)
/n/
22 (3.4%)
/o/
21 (3.3%)
/d/
21 (3.3%)
/r/
21 (3.3%)
/m/
21 (3.3%)
/s/
20 (3.1%)
/ts/
19 (3%)
/v/
18 (2.8%)
/l/
16 (2.5%)
/eː/
15 (2.3%)
/b/
14 (2.2%)
/tʰ/
12 (1.9%)
/p/
10 (1.6%)
/ẽ/
9 (1.4%)
/õ/
9 (1.4%)
/f/
9 (1.4%)
/q/
9 (1.4%)
/kʰ/
9 (1.4%)
/iː/
8 (1.2%)
/uː/
8 (1.2%)