Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
25 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | · | td | · | · | k | qɢ | · | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɺ | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Fricative | ɸβ | v | θð | s | ʒ | ç | x | χ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | ts | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Approximant | · | ʋ | · | · | · | j | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | · | · | ʎ | · | · | · | |||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | · | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | e | · | · |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 324 transcribed dictionary entries (1,332 total tokens)
/a/
326 (24.5%)
/ɾ/
132 (9.9%)
/ə/
95 (7.1%)
/i/
89 (6.7%)
/v/
69 (5.2%)
/uː/
60 (4.5%)
/m/
52 (3.9%)
/ð/
48 (3.6%)
/s/
46 (3.5%)
/j/
38 (2.9%)
/a᷈/
33 (2.5%)
/tʰ/
32 (2.4%)
/k/
32 (2.4%)
/ç/
32 (2.4%)
/n/
30 (2.3%)
/p/
27 (2%)
/h/
26 (2%)
/n̩/
25 (1.9%)
/χ/
25 (1.9%)
/aː/
22 (1.7%)
/β/
16 (1.2%)
/q/
12 (0.9%)
/ts/
12 (0.9%)
/x/
12 (0.9%)
/ɺ/
9 (0.7%)
/e/
8 (0.6%)
/m̩/
7 (0.5%)
/ɢ/
5 (0.4%)
/ʊ/
5 (0.4%)
/ʎ/
4 (0.3%)