Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | · | · | td | · | kg | · | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | v | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | ʁ | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | w | · | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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%)
/aː/
12 (4.4%)
/eː/
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%)
/iː/
3 (1.1%)
/ʃ/
3 (1.1%)
/θ/
2 (0.7%)