Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
23 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kɡ | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɲ | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃ | · | ɣ | ɦ | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | ɹ | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(V)CVPhoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 469 transcribed dictionary entries (2,006 total tokens)
/a˧/
150 (7.5%)
/k/
137 (6.8%)
/b/
90 (4.5%)
/a˥/
89 (4.4%)
/t/
78 (3.9%)
/ʃ/
74 (3.7%)
/u˧/
71 (3.5%)
/˥/
67 (3.3%)
/f/
66 (3.3%)
/i˥/
61 (3%)
/e˧/
61 (3%)
/m/
57 (2.8%)
/z/
56 (2.8%)
/i˧/
54 (2.7%)
/n/
53 (2.6%)
/d/
52 (2.6%)
/g/
47 (2.3%)
/a˩/
47 (2.3%)
/e˥/
46 (2.3%)
/ɹ/
46 (2.3%)
/i˩/
41 (2%)
/p/
41 (2%)
/ɛ˧/
41 (2%)
/w/
37 (1.8%)
/j/
37 (1.8%)
/o˧/
36 (1.8%)
/˩/
32 (1.6%)
/kʷ/
31 (1.5%)
/ɲ/
29 (1.4%)
/l/
28 (1.4%)