Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
24 consonants
12 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | ɸβ | θ | sz | ʃʒ | · | x | h | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | ts | tʃdʒ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛœ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | ɑ |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)(V)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 81 transcribed dictionary entries (358 total tokens)
/s/
36 (10.1%)
/a/
33 (9.2%)
/n/
30 (8.4%)
/r/
28 (7.8%)
/e/
22 (6.1%)
/o/
20 (5.6%)
/i/
19 (5.3%)
/l/
17 (4.7%)
/ɛ/
17 (4.7%)
/k/
13 (3.6%)
/m/
13 (3.6%)
/t/
11 (3.1%)
/ɔ/
11 (3.1%)
/ɑ/
11 (3.1%)
/g/
9 (2.5%)
/d/
8 (2.2%)
/u/
6 (1.7%)
/b/
5 (1.4%)
/e:/
5 (1.4%)
/p/
5 (1.4%)
/ʃ/
4 (1.1%)
/ʒ/
4 (1.1%)
/h/
4 (1.1%)
/θ/
4 (1.1%)
/y/
3 (0.8%)
/œ/
3 (0.8%)
/x/
3 (0.8%)
/o:/
3 (0.8%)
/ŋ/
3 (0.8%)
/j/
2 (0.6%)