Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | k | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | ʁ | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Near-open | · | ɐ | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
V, CV, VC, CVC, CVV, CCVPhoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 63 transcribed dictionary entries (244 total tokens)
/i/
35 (14.3%)
/a/
28 (11.5%)
/o/
20 (8.2%)
/u/
19 (7.8%)
/r/
17 (7%)
/l/
15 (6.1%)
/m/
14 (5.7%)
/n/
14 (5.7%)
/v/
13 (5.3%)
/s/
11 (4.5%)
/k/
10 (4.1%)
/t/
8 (3.3%)
/e/
8 (3.3%)
/d/
7 (2.9%)
/ɛ/
5 (2%)
/ɐ̃/
5 (2%)
/f/
4 (1.6%)
/ʒ/
3 (1.2%)
/ɔ/
3 (1.2%)
/ks/
2 (0.8%)
/b/
1 (0.4%)
/ʁ/
1 (0.4%)
/z/
1 (0.4%)