Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
21 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | ʔ | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | f | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | h | ||||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | · | ɬ | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | · | · | 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 | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 422 transcribed dictionary entries (1,785 total tokens)
/a/
203 (11.4%)
/ɪ/
193 (10.8%)
/n/
142 (8%)
/s/
112 (6.3%)
/o/
95 (5.3%)
/k/
92 (5.2%)
/t/
91 (5.1%)
/e/
76 (4.3%)
/l/
64 (3.6%)
/m/
63 (3.5%)
/iː/
55 (3.1%)
/h/
52 (2.9%)
/ʃ/
50 (2.8%)
/u/
49 (2.7%)
/d/
46 (2.6%)
/ɬ/
40 (2.2%)
/ɑː/
39 (2.2%)
/j/
39 (2.2%)
/p/
35 (2%)
/θ/
34 (1.9%)
/eː/
28 (1.6%)
/r/
27 (1.5%)
/z/
22 (1.2%)
/oː/
21 (1.2%)
/ə/
19 (1.1%)
/ɛ/
18 (1%)
/b/
17 (1%)
/g/
17 (1%)
/ʋ/
15 (0.8%)
/f/
15 (0.8%)