Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

26 consonants
8 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalDentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarUvularGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
·
td
·
ɟ
kg
ɢ
·
Nasal
m
·
·
n
·
·
·
·
·
Trill
·
·
·
r
·
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
θð
sz
ʑ
·
ɣ
χ
h
Affricate
·
·
·
ts
·
·
·
·
Approximant
·
·
·
·
·
j
w
·
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
·
l
·
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
Close
iy
·
u
Close-mid
e
·
o
Open-mid
œ
··
Near-open
æ
··
Open
a
··

Phoneme Frequency

Distribution of phonemes across 319 transcribed dictionary entries (1,523 total tokens)

/n/
159 (10.4%)
/a/
154 (10.1%)
/r/
129 (8.5%)
/s/
93 (6.1%)
/e/
83 (5.4%)
/o/
82 (5.4%)
//
73 (4.8%)
/l/
62 (4.1%)
/m/
53 (3.5%)
/k/
50 (3.3%)
/d/
49 (3.2%)
/i/
48 (3.2%)
/t/
48 (3.2%)
//
46 (3%)
//
43 (2.8%)
/v/
35 (2.3%)
/p/
35 (2.3%)
//
30 (2%)
/g/
27 (1.8%)
/θ/
26 (1.7%)
//
24 (1.6%)
//
22 (1.4%)
/h/
19 (1.2%)
/u/
18 (1.2%)
/f/
18 (1.2%)
/b/
17 (1.1%)
/z/
13 (0.9%)
/æ/
12 (0.8%)
/ts/
10 (0.7%)
/sh/
9 (0.6%)