Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | · | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃ | ç | x | ʁ | h | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Near-close | ɪʏ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛœ | · | ɔ |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)(C)(C)V(V)(C)(C)(C)(C)Phonological Rules
/b/ → [p] / _# /d/ → [t] / _# /g/ → [k] / _# /s/ → [z] / _V
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 58 transcribed dictionary entries (240 total tokens)
/n/
32 (13.3%)
/a/
26 (10.8%)
/t/
23 (9.6%)
/ʁ/
21 (8.8%)
/k/
17 (7.1%)
/ə/
16 (6.7%)
/s/
15 (6.3%)
/l/
9 (3.8%)
/v/
9 (3.8%)
/d/
8 (3.3%)
/m/
8 (3.3%)
/f/
7 (2.9%)
/u/
7 (2.9%)
/b/
6 (2.5%)
/i/
6 (2.5%)
/o/
6 (2.5%)
/ɛ/
5 (2.1%)
/h/
5 (2.1%)
/p/
4 (1.7%)
/ʃ/
4 (1.7%)
/yː/
4 (1.7%)
/j/
2 (0.8%)