Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
11 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | · | · | · | c | k | |||||
| Nasal | m | · | · | · | ŋ | |||||
| Trill | · | r | · | · | · | |||||
| Fricative | · | s | ʃ | · | x | |||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | · | kx | |||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | j | w | |||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(C)V(N)Phonological Rules
/ò/ --> [ɤ̀ɻ]
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 220 transcribed dictionary entries (236 total tokens)
/x/
24 (10.2%)
/s/
21 (8.9%)
/b̥/
21 (8.9%)
/m/
20 (8.5%)
/j/
16 (6.8%)
/c/
15 (6.4%)
/w/
15 (6.4%)
/k/
13 (5.5%)
/r/
13 (5.5%)
/ʃ/
12 (5.1%)
/kx/
11 (4.7%)
/ŋ/
9 (3.8%)
/o/
8 (3.4%)
/ə/
7 (3%)
/i/
7 (3%)
/a/
5 (2.1%)
/ə́/
4 (1.7%)
/Ù/
4 (1.7%)
/ə̀/
2 (0.8%)
/ú/
2 (0.8%)
/u/
2 (0.8%)
/ó/
2 (0.8%)
/à/
1 (0.4%)
/í/
1 (0.4%)
/ì/
1 (0.4%)