Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
13 consonants
8 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | · | · | t | · | k | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | · | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | · | r | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | ð | s | · | · | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(V)(C)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 56 transcribed dictionary entries (185 total tokens)
/a/
17 (9.2%)
/y/
15 (8.1%)
/m/
14 (7.6%)
/o/
13 (7%)
/e/
12 (6.5%)
/i/
12 (6.5%)
/u/
11 (5.9%)
/f/
11 (5.9%)
/l/
10 (5.4%)
/ɨ/
10 (5.4%)
/t/
10 (5.4%)
/n/
9 (4.9%)
/k/
9 (4.9%)
/h/
9 (4.9%)
/s/
8 (4.3%)
/ø/
5 (2.7%)
/p/
3 (1.6%)
/v/
3 (1.6%)
/r/
2 (1.1%)
/j/
1 (0.5%)
/ð/
1 (0.5%)