Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
18 consonants
3 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʒ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 35 transcribed dictionary entries (219 total tokens)
/e/
32 (14.6%)
/k/
30 (13.7%)
/b/
23 (10.5%)
/r/
21 (9.6%)
/n/
20 (9.1%)
/i/
17 (7.8%)
/y/
17 (7.8%)
/t/
15 (6.8%)
/s/
12 (5.5%)
/h/
7 (3.2%)
/m/
7 (3.2%)
/d/
7 (3.2%)
/l/
4 (1.8%)
/g/
1 (0.5%)
/v/
1 (0.5%)
/j/
1 (0.5%)
/iː/
1 (0.5%)
/ʒ/
1 (0.5%)
/z/
1 (0.5%)
/p/
1 (0.5%)