Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | ɲ | · | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | f | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | · | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Mid | e̞ | · | · |
| Open-mid | · | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(C)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 52 transcribed dictionary entries (262 total tokens)
/a/
45 (17.2%)
/r/
23 (8.8%)
/k/
21 (8%)
/t/
16 (6.1%)
/e̞/
16 (6.1%)
/u/
13 (5%)
/d/
13 (5%)
/s/
12 (4.6%)
/n/
10 (3.8%)
/g/
9 (3.4%)
/x/
8 (3.1%)
/i/
8 (3.1%)
/w/
8 (3.1%)
/ɪ/
8 (3.1%)
/m/
7 (2.7%)
/θ/
6 (2.3%)
/ʊ/
6 (2.3%)
/ɔ/
5 (1.9%)
/b/
5 (1.9%)
/p/
5 (1.9%)
/l/
5 (1.9%)
/z/
4 (1.5%)
/f/
3 (1.1%)
/ɑ/
3 (1.1%)
/h/
2 (0.8%)
/ɲ/
1 (0.4%)