Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

17 consonants
6 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarPostalveolarVelarUvularGlottal
Plosive
b
·
·
td
·
kg
·
·
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
v
θ
sz
ʃʒ
·
ʁ
h
Approximant
·
·
·
·
·
w
·
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
·
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open-mid
ɛ
··
Open
a
··

Syllable Structure

(C)V(C)

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 58 transcribed dictionary entries (272 total tokens)

/t/
28 (10.3%)
/a/
26 (9.6%)
/ʁ/
24 (8.8%)
/ɛ/
24 (8.8%)
/n/
20 (7.4%)
/o/
18 (6.6%)
/d/
14 (5.1%)
//
12 (4.4%)
//
11 (4%)
/i/
11 (4%)
/m/
11 (4%)
/k/
8 (2.9%)
/v/
8 (2.9%)
/b/
8 (2.9%)
/u/
8 (2.9%)
/s/
7 (2.6%)
/l/
7 (2.6%)
/ʒ/
6 (2.2%)
/g/
5 (1.8%)
/h/
4 (1.5%)
/w/
4 (1.5%)
//
3 (1.1%)
/ʃ/
3 (1.1%)
/θ/
2 (0.7%)