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 208 transcribed dictionary entries (958 total tokens)
/a/
105 (11%)
/e/
93 (9.7%)
/t/
92 (9.6%)
/o/
77 (8%)
/ə/
71 (7.4%)
/i/
67 (7%)
/s/
47 (4.9%)
/u/
39 (4.1%)
/d/
31 (3.2%)
/m/
29 (3%)
/n/
18 (1.9%)
/kʼ/
18 (1.9%)
/ɬ/
18 (1.9%)
/k/
17 (1.8%)
/tʼ/
17 (1.8%)
/ð/
16 (1.7%)
/θ/
16 (1.7%)
/ŋ/
15 (1.6%)
/g/
15 (1.6%)
/pʷ/
14 (1.5%)
/p/
13 (1.4%)
/b/
13 (1.4%)
/dʷ/
12 (1.3%)
/v/
12 (1.3%)
/bʷ/
11 (1.1%)
/ɬʼ/
10 (1%)
/tʷ/
10 (1%)
/pʼ/
10 (1%)
/kʷ/
8 (0.8%)
/w/
7 (0.7%)