Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
19 consonants
5 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | k | ʔ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | ||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʒ | x | · | ||||||
| Lateral fricative | · | · | ɬɮ | · | · | · | ||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | w | · | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | ||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Open | a | · | · |
Syllable Structure
(c)(c)v(c)(c)Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 280 transcribed dictionary entries (1,084 total tokens)
/a/
187 (17.3%)
/i/
93 (8.6%)
/r/
89 (8.2%)
/s/
78 (7.2%)
/e/
76 (7%)
/t/
69 (6.4%)
/u/
63 (5.8%)
/n/
60 (5.5%)
/m/
60 (5.5%)
/l/
55 (5.1%)
/o/
49 (4.5%)
/k/
32 (3%)
/x/
28 (2.6%)
/d/
26 (2.4%)
/ʒ/
26 (2.4%)
/p/
26 (2.4%)
/v/
21 (1.9%)
/z/
20 (1.8%)
/f/
14 (1.3%)
/b/
12 (1.1%)