Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
14 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | td | · | c | kg | · | |||||||
| 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 71 transcribed dictionary entries (699 total tokens)
/h/
193 (27.6%)
/n/
154 (22%)
/y/
69 (9.9%)
/ɯ/
61 (8.7%)
/k/
30 (4.3%)
/d/
24 (3.4%)
/l/
20 (2.9%)
/t/
20 (2.9%)
/u/
19 (2.7%)
/eh/
17 (2.4%)
/ʑ/
16 (2.3%)
/a/
15 (2.1%)
/c/
14 (2%)
/ɨ/
13 (1.9%)
/f/
10 (1.4%)
/kh/
9 (1.3%)
/i/
6 (0.9%)
/z/
5 (0.7%)
/e/
2 (0.3%)
/el/
1 (0.1%)
/ej/
1 (0.1%)