Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
26 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | · | td | · | · | kg | q | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | n | · | ɲ | · | · | ||||||||
| Tap/Flap | · | · | · | ɾ | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | ð | sz | ʃʒ | · | xɣ | χ | ||||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | · | ɬ | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | ts | tʃ | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | · | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | eø | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 351 transcribed dictionary entries (2,037 total tokens)
/a/
338 (16.6%)
/ɾ/
149 (7.3%)
/n/
115 (5.6%)
/i/
106 (5.2%)
/k/
104 (5.1%)
/e/
101 (5%)
/l/
93 (4.6%)
/o/
92 (4.5%)
/t/
91 (4.5%)
/u/
82 (4%)
/m/
81 (4%)
/s/
70 (3.4%)
/d/
70 (3.4%)
/g/
50 (2.5%)
/b/
49 (2.4%)
/ʒ/
42 (2.1%)
/ʃ/
42 (2.1%)
/iː/
41 (2%)
/ə/
38 (1.9%)
/p/
33 (1.6%)
/j/
33 (1.6%)
/z/
29 (1.4%)
/v/
20 (1%)
/ø/
19 (0.9%)
/y/
16 (0.8%)
/tʃ/
16 (0.8%)
/ã/
15 (0.7%)
/ts/
13 (0.6%)
/f/
12 (0.6%)
/x/
11 (0.5%)