Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | td | · | · | g | qɢ | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | · | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 49 transcribed dictionary entries (460 total tokens)
/e/
61 (13.3%)
/a/
56 (12.2%)
/d/
42 (9.1%)
/i/
41 (8.9%)
/u/
40 (8.7%)
/n/
33 (7.2%)
/t/
30 (6.5%)
/b/
27 (5.9%)
/s/
26 (5.7%)
/o/
20 (4.3%)
/l/
14 (3%)
/r/
13 (2.8%)
/m/
11 (2.4%)
/q/
10 (2.2%)
/j/
7 (1.5%)
/x/
6 (1.3%)
/h/
6 (1.3%)
/ɢ/
6 (1.3%)
/p/
4 (0.9%)
/z/
2 (0.4%)
/ɸ/
2 (0.4%)
/ʒ/
2 (0.4%)
/ʃ/
1 (0.2%)