Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
20 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | ɹ | · | j | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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%)