Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
15 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | s | · | · | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | · | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 242 transcribed dictionary entries (1,189 total tokens)
/ɑ/
194 (16.3%)
/m/
105 (8.8%)
/u/
92 (7.7%)
/r/
79 (6.6%)
/n/
71 (6%)
/t/
66 (5.6%)
/i/
63 (5.3%)
/g/
60 (5%)
/e/
57 (4.8%)
/k/
56 (4.7%)
/l/
54 (4.5%)
/d/
49 (4.1%)
/s/
45 (3.8%)
/b/
36 (3%)
/j/
34 (2.9%)
/f/
30 (2.5%)
/y/
26 (2.2%)
/v/
22 (1.9%)
/h/
21 (1.8%)
/o/
17 (1.4%)
/p/
12 (1%)