Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
12 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | · | · | · | · | ʔ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | · | ŋ | · | ||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | · | · | ʃ | · | ɦ | ||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | · | kx | · | ||||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | · | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Mid | e̞ | · | o̞ |
| Open | · | ä | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(V)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 65 transcribed dictionary entries (217 total tokens)
/o̞/
27 (12.4%)
/ä/
25 (11.5%)
/u/
23 (10.6%)
/i/
21 (9.7%)
/e̞/
20 (9.2%)
/m/
13 (6%)
/l/
11 (5.1%)
/iː/
11 (5.1%)
/aː/
8 (3.7%)
/ʋ/
8 (3.7%)
/ŋ/
7 (3.2%)
/uː/
6 (2.8%)
/ɸ/
5 (2.3%)
/ŋʷ/
5 (2.3%)
/ɾ/
5 (2.3%)
/ɦ/
5 (2.3%)
/b/
4 (1.8%)
/ʃ/
4 (1.8%)
/ʃʷ/
3 (1.4%)
/bʷ/
2 (0.9%)
/ɦʷ/
1 (0.5%)
/mʷ/
1 (0.5%)
/ɾʷ/
1 (0.5%)
/lʷ/
1 (0.5%)