Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | kg | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʒ | · | h | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | ɹ | · | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | · | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ʌ |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)V(C)(V)(C)Phonological Rules
/s/ → [z] / V_V /f/ → [v] / V_V
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 102 transcribed dictionary entries (441 total tokens)
/n/
50 (11.3%)
/e/
41 (9.3%)
/s/
36 (8.2%)
/ɛ/
36 (8.2%)
/t/
26 (5.9%)
/a/
25 (5.7%)
/ɹ/
24 (5.4%)
/u/
23 (5.2%)
/o/
21 (4.8%)
/l/
19 (4.3%)
/d/
19 (4.3%)
/ɑ/
17 (3.9%)
/w/
12 (2.7%)
/b/
12 (2.7%)
/g/
11 (2.5%)
/h/
11 (2.5%)
/f/
10 (2.3%)
/k/
8 (1.8%)
/ʒ/
8 (1.8%)
/ks/
8 (1.8%)
/v/
6 (1.4%)
/ʌ/
6 (1.4%)
/m/
5 (1.1%)
/p/
4 (0.9%)
/z/
2 (0.5%)
/kʲ/
1 (0.2%)