Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
24 consonants
11 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | ʈ | · | kg | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | ŋ | · | |||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɺ | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | · | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | · | dʒ | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | · | ɨ | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ʌɔ |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 33 transcribed dictionary entries (145 total tokens)
/ɛ/
23 (15.9%)
/n/
18 (12.4%)
/d/
17 (11.7%)
/aː/
11 (7.6%)
/ʃ/
10 (6.9%)
/h/
9 (6.2%)
/ɔ/
7 (4.8%)
/dʒ/
6 (4.1%)
/b/
6 (4.1%)
/w/
5 (3.4%)
/s/
5 (3.4%)
/ʌ/
4 (2.8%)
/θ/
4 (2.8%)
/k/
2 (1.4%)
/oʊ/
2 (1.4%)
/aɪ/
2 (1.4%)
/ju/
2 (1.4%)
/æ/
2 (1.4%)
/ɪ/
2 (1.4%)
/v/
1 (0.7%)
/ð/
1 (0.7%)
/l/
1 (0.7%)
/ʊ/
1 (0.7%)
/ʒ/
1 (0.7%)
/ɔɪ/
1 (0.7%)
/ʈʃ/
1 (0.7%)
/g/
1 (0.7%)