Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
23 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | kg | ʔ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | sz | ʃʒ | · | h | |||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | · | ɬɮ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | w | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
CV(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 71 transcribed dictionary entries (322 total tokens)
/a/
44 (13.7%)
/t/
34 (10.6%)
/e/
34 (10.6%)
/o/
24 (7.5%)
/i/
20 (6.2%)
/ə/
19 (5.9%)
/s/
17 (5.3%)
/m/
11 (3.4%)
/pʷ/
10 (3.1%)
/d/
9 (2.8%)
/kʼ/
8 (2.5%)
/u/
7 (2.2%)
/bʷ/
7 (2.2%)
/v/
7 (2.2%)
/ŋ/
6 (1.9%)
/ð/
6 (1.9%)
/n/
6 (1.9%)
/ɬ/
6 (1.9%)
/b/
5 (1.6%)
/g/
4 (1.2%)
/k/
4 (1.2%)
/θ/
4 (1.2%)
/r/
3 (0.9%)
/ɮ/
3 (0.9%)
/tʼ/
3 (0.9%)
/gʷ/
3 (0.9%)
/z/
3 (0.9%)
/ɬʼ/
2 (0.6%)
/kʷ/
2 (0.6%)
/p/
2 (0.6%)