Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

21 consonants
8 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPostalveolarRetroflexPalatalVelarUvularGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
·
·
kg
q
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
·
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
sz
ʃʒ
·
·
x
·
h
Approximant
·
·
ɹ
·
·
j
w
·
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
·
ɭ
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
i
·
u
Near-close
ɪ
·
ʊ
Close-mid
e
·
o
Mid·
ə
·
Open
a
··

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 65 transcribed dictionary entries (333 total tokens)

/a/
46 (13.8%)
/e/
38 (11.4%)
/i/
27 (8.1%)
/ɹ/
26 (7.8%)
/o/
26 (7.8%)
/n/
25 (7.5%)
/t/
22 (6.6%)
/s/
21 (6.3%)
/ɭ/
18 (5.4%)
/j/
15 (4.5%)
/u/
13 (3.9%)
/m/
11 (3.3%)
/v/
10 (3%)
/z/
9 (2.7%)
/d/
6 (1.8%)
//
5 (1.5%)
/k/
4 (1.2%)
/ʃ/
3 (0.9%)
/ju/
2 (0.6%)
/h/
2 (0.6%)
/x/
2 (0.6%)
/p/
1 (0.3%)
/b/
1 (0.3%)