Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
18 consonants
3 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | qɢ | ʔ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | · | · | ɴ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | f | sz | ʐ | · | χ | ɦ | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | ɭ | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 80 transcribed dictionary entries (349 total tokens)
/a/
63 (18.1%)
/i/
45 (12.9%)
/u/
32 (9.2%)
/s/
25 (7.2%)
/b/
19 (5.4%)
/ʔ/
16 (4.6%)
/d/
14 (4%)
/ɭ/
14 (4%)
/m/
13 (3.7%)
/f/
13 (3.7%)
/r/
13 (3.7%)
/ɦ/
12 (3.4%)
/ɴ/
10 (2.9%)
/qʼ/
9 (2.6%)
/j/
9 (2.6%)
/ɢ/
8 (2.3%)
/ʐ/
8 (2.3%)
/χ/
8 (2.3%)
/tʼ/
7 (2%)
/pʼ/
6 (1.7%)
/z/
5 (1.4%)