Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
16 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | t | · | · | k | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | s | ʃ | · | x | h | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛœ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(V)(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 338 transcribed dictionary entries (1,606 total tokens)
/a/
253 (15.8%)
/l/
120 (7.5%)
/t/
115 (7.2%)
/ɛ/
107 (6.7%)
/k/
102 (6.4%)
/w/
96 (6%)
/m/
88 (5.5%)
/r/
84 (5.2%)
/u/
80 (5%)
/f/
76 (4.7%)
/j/
75 (4.7%)
/i/
63 (3.9%)
/n/
60 (3.7%)
/ɔ/
51 (3.2%)
/x/
42 (2.6%)
/ʃ/
41 (2.6%)
/p/
38 (2.4%)
/ə/
37 (2.3%)
/s/
31 (1.9%)
/y/
17 (1.1%)
/œ/
11 (0.7%)
/ŋ/
10 (0.6%)
/h/
9 (0.6%)