Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

20 consonants
9 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelar
Plosive
pb
·
·
td
·
·
kg
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
θ
sz
ʃʒ
·
·
Affricate
·
·
·
·
·
·
Approximant
·
·
·
ɹ
·
j
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

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

Syllable Structure

(C)(C)V(C)(C)

Phonological Rules

sps->[ps]
pps->[ps]
nps->[ps]

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 715 transcribed dictionary entries (3,690 total tokens)

/n/
496 (13.4%)
/ɪ/
421 (11.4%)
/s/
268 (7.3%)
/æ/
265 (7.2%)
/k/
248 (6.7%)
/t/
233 (6.3%)
/ɔ/
213 (5.8%)
/ɹ/
205 (5.6%)
/ɛ/
182 (4.9%)
/l/
162 (4.4%)
/m/
146 (4%)
/i/
123 (3.3%)
/p/
111 (3%)
/d/
94 (2.5%)
/ks/
84 (2.3%)
/u/
66 (1.8%)
/f/
62 (1.7%)
/θ/
55 (1.5%)
/g/
54 (1.5%)
/z/
50 (1.4%)
/b/
41 (1.1%)
/v/
40 (1.1%)
/ʃ/
32 (0.9%)
/h/
29 (0.8%)
/ʒ/
10 (0.3%)