Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
22 consonants
10 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kɡ | · | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | χʁ | h | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 200 transcribed dictionary entries (837 total tokens)
/ɑ/
75 (9%)
/n/
71 (8.5%)
/iː/
64 (7.6%)
/k/
61 (7.3%)
/l/
58 (6.9%)
/ʁ/
57 (6.8%)
/d/
55 (6.6%)
/ə/
49 (5.9%)
/b/
29 (3.5%)
/s/
28 (3.3%)
/o/
28 (3.3%)
/t/
28 (3.3%)
/m/
28 (3.3%)
/h/
27 (3.2%)
/uː/
21 (2.5%)
/ɡ/
20 (2.4%)
/ɪ/
16 (1.9%)
/χ/
15 (1.8%)
/f/
15 (1.8%)
/aː/
15 (1.8%)
/ɛ/
12 (1.4%)
/θ/
11 (1.3%)
/u/
9 (1.1%)
/ɑj/
8 (1%)
/ʃ/
8 (1%)
/p/
8 (1%)
/v/
7 (0.8%)
/j/
4 (0.5%)
/w/
4 (0.5%)
/ŋ/
3 (0.4%)