Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
13 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | td | · | c | k | · | |||||||
| Nasal | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | z | ʑ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | ɨ | ɯu |
| Close-mid | e | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
cvc,cvvc(c)(v)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 64 transcribed dictionary entries (390 total tokens)
/u/
98 (25.1%)
/ɯ/
42 (10.8%)
/k/
36 (9.2%)
/d/
35 (9%)
/kh/
29 (7.4%)
/l/
19 (4.9%)
/z/
19 (4.9%)
/ɨ/
16 (4.1%)
/c/
14 (3.6%)
/n/
13 (3.3%)
/h/
13 (3.3%)
/ʑ/
10 (2.6%)
/f/
9 (2.3%)
/a/
9 (2.3%)
/t/
8 (2.1%)
/y/
6 (1.5%)
/i/
6 (1.5%)
/eh/
6 (1.5%)
/el/
1 (0.3%)
/p/
1 (0.3%)