Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | k | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | h | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phonological Rules
ei → ei ie → aɪ
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 125 transcribed dictionary entries (515 total tokens)
/t/
57 (11.1%)
/e/
45 (8.7%)
/r/
45 (8.7%)
/a/
42 (8.2%)
/n/
39 (7.6%)
/k/
34 (6.6%)
/s/
33 (6.4%)
/i/
32 (6.2%)
/o/
31 (6%)
/d/
30 (5.8%)
/ʃ/
24 (4.7%)
/u/
20 (3.9%)
/h/
17 (3.3%)
/z/
14 (2.7%)
/l/
13 (2.5%)
/v/
11 (2.1%)
/m/
10 (1.9%)
/f/
9 (1.7%)
/p/
5 (1%)
/b/
4 (0.8%)