Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
26 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | ɟ | kg | ɢ | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | θð | sz | ʑ | · | ɣ | χ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | ts | dʒ | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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%)
/eː/
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%)
/aː/
46 (3%)
/oː/
43 (2.8%)
/v/
35 (2.3%)
/p/
35 (2.3%)
/iː/
30 (2%)
/g/
27 (1.8%)
/θ/
26 (1.7%)
/yː/
24 (1.6%)
/uː/
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%)