Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
23 consonants
6 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | · | kg | · | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | · | ŋ | · | ||||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃ | ʐ | · | x | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Near-open | · | ɐ | · |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 131 transcribed dictionary entries (430 total tokens)
/ɛ/
49 (11.4%)
/ɑ/
45 (10.5%)
/n/
30 (7%)
/o/
28 (6.5%)
/u/
28 (6.5%)
/b/
26 (6%)
/g/
25 (5.8%)
/i/
25 (5.8%)
/j/
19 (4.4%)
/t/
17 (4%)
/s/
16 (3.7%)
/k/
15 (3.5%)
/dʒ/
14 (3.3%)
/l/
12 (2.8%)
/m/
12 (2.8%)
/d/
12 (2.8%)
/õ/
8 (1.9%)
/r/
8 (1.9%)
/x/
7 (1.6%)
/f/
5 (1.2%)
/ñ/
5 (1.2%)
/v/
4 (0.9%)
/ɐ̃/
4 (0.9%)
/w/
3 (0.7%)
/h/
3 (0.7%)
/ʐ/
3 (0.7%)
/p/
2 (0.5%)
/ŋ/
2 (0.5%)
/ʃ/
1 (0.2%)
/z/
1 (0.2%)