Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
17 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | θ | s | · | x | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | · |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 35 transcribed dictionary entries (162 total tokens)
/ɑ/
22 (13.6%)
/n/
14 (8.6%)
/r/
14 (8.6%)
/s/
11 (6.8%)
/e/
9 (5.6%)
/d/
9 (5.6%)
/m/
8 (4.9%)
/h/
7 (4.3%)
/ɪ/
7 (4.3%)
/t/
6 (3.7%)
/f/
6 (3.7%)
/l/
5 (3.1%)
/g/
5 (3.1%)
/o/
4 (2.5%)
/oː/
4 (2.5%)
/eː/
4 (2.5%)
/k/
4 (2.5%)
/æ/
3 (1.9%)
/ɑː/
3 (1.9%)
/b/
3 (1.9%)
/p/
3 (1.9%)
/u/
2 (1.2%)
/nː/
2 (1.2%)
/uː/
2 (1.2%)
/θ/
1 (0.6%)
/x/
1 (0.6%)
/i/
1 (0.6%)
/y/
1 (0.6%)
/w/
1 (0.6%)