Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
14 consonants
7 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | t | · | · | k | · | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | · | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | h | ||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | ɬ | · | · | · | · | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 46 transcribed dictionary entries (227 total tokens)
/t/
35 (15.4%)
/a/
33 (14.5%)
/i/
26 (11.5%)
/o/
24 (10.6%)
/ɬ/
22 (9.7%)
/ʃ/
10 (4.4%)
/e/
10 (4.4%)
/l/
9 (4%)
/k/
8 (3.5%)
/n/
8 (3.5%)
/h/
8 (3.5%)
/m/
7 (3.1%)
/kʷ/
5 (2.2%)
/p/
4 (1.8%)
/ʒ/
3 (1.3%)
/ɓ/
3 (1.3%)
/u/
3 (1.3%)
/j/
3 (1.3%)
/ɔ/
2 (0.9%)
/w/
2 (0.9%)
/s/
1 (0.4%)
/z/
1 (0.4%)