Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
8 consonants
3 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Labiodental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | · | · | ɖ | · | k | ʔ | ||||||
| Nasal | ɱ | · | · | ɲ | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | · | · | ç | · | h | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 8 transcribed dictionary entries (52 total tokens)
/h/
14 (26.9%)
/a/
13 (25%)
/k/
7 (13.5%)
/u/
7 (13.5%)
/ɲ/
4 (7.7%)
/i/
3 (5.8%)
/ɖ/
2 (3.8%)
/l/
1 (1.9%)
/ç/
1 (1.9%)