Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
27 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | cɟ | kg | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | çʝ | xɣ | ||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)Phonological Rules
/b/ → [v] / V_V /bʲ/ → [vʲ] / V_V /d/ → [z] / V_V /d͡ʒ/ → [ʒ] / V_V /g/ → [ɣ] / V_V /ɟ/ → [ʝ] / V_V
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 164 transcribed dictionary entries (626 total tokens)
/a/
66 (10.5%)
/e/
49 (7.8%)
/l/
46 (7.3%)
/r/
37 (5.9%)
/m/
36 (5.8%)
/o/
36 (5.8%)
/n/
36 (5.8%)
/i/
35 (5.6%)
/ø/
33 (5.3%)
/ə/
29 (4.6%)
/y/
25 (4%)
/u/
22 (3.5%)
/d/
21 (3.4%)
/t/
21 (3.4%)
/p/
21 (3.4%)
/s/
17 (2.7%)
/k/
17 (2.7%)
/j/
15 (2.4%)
/f/
14 (2.2%)
/b/
14 (2.2%)
/v/
10 (1.6%)
/ʍ/
10 (1.6%)
/x/
5 (0.8%)
/w/
5 (0.8%)
/z/
4 (0.6%)
/ɣ/
2 (0.3%)