Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | c | k | qɢ | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | ɳ | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ʀ | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʒ | · | · | · | · | h | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | ɫ | · | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Near-open | · | ɐ | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 222 transcribed dictionary entries (1,354 total tokens)
/a/
219 (16.2%)
/z/
122 (9%)
/n/
96 (7.1%)
/ɛ/
87 (6.4%)
/o/
86 (6.4%)
/u/
84 (6.2%)
/t/
83 (6.1%)
/ːi/
67 (4.9%)
/k/
66 (4.9%)
/ɫ/
55 (4.1%)
/ʀ/
53 (3.9%)
/f/
43 (3.2%)
/p/
41 (3%)
/kz/
39 (2.9%)
/b/
37 (2.7%)
/i/
29 (2.1%)
/d/
27 (2%)
/v/
25 (1.8%)
/ɢ/
23 (1.7%)
/h/
22 (1.6%)
/c/
16 (1.2%)
/m/
16 (1.2%)
/‿/
7 (0.5%)
/ɳ/
6 (0.4%)
/q/
5 (0.4%)