Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
23 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | c | kg | q | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | · | ||||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | · | ɬ | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | ɹ | · | j | · | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(C)Phonological Rules
/ɹ/ → [ɾ] / V_V
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 114 transcribed dictionary entries (427 total tokens)
/ɛ/
53 (12.4%)
/a/
46 (10.8%)
/i/
36 (8.4%)
/o/
33 (7.7%)
/ɬ/
29 (6.8%)
/u/
28 (6.6%)
/x/
19 (4.4%)
/m/
19 (4.4%)
/l/
19 (4.4%)
/n/
18 (4.2%)
/f/
16 (3.7%)
/d/
13 (3%)
/k/
13 (3%)
/t/
12 (2.8%)
/ɹ/
12 (2.8%)
/s/
11 (2.6%)
/v/
8 (1.9%)
/g/
7 (1.6%)
/b/
7 (1.6%)
/j/
6 (1.4%)
/z/
6 (1.4%)
/ʃ/
5 (1.2%)
/c/
5 (1.2%)
/p/
3 (0.7%)
/q/
3 (0.7%)