Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
22 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | · | · | kg | · | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | · | · | ŋ | · | |||||||
| Trill | · | · | r | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʃʒ | · | · | h | |||||||
| Affricate | · | · | · | tʃdʒ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | · | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | · | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | · | ʊ |
| Close-mid | · | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | · |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Near-open | æ | · | · |
| Open | · | · | ɑ |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 164 transcribed dictionary entries (454 total tokens)
/ɛ/
48 (10.6%)
/n/
40 (8.8%)
/oʊ/
34 (7.5%)
/ɑ/
29 (6.4%)
/i/
25 (5.5%)
/u/
23 (5.1%)
/t/
22 (4.8%)
/d/
21 (4.6%)
/g/
20 (4.4%)
/b/
20 (4.4%)
/k/
17 (3.7%)
/ə/
16 (3.5%)
/æ/
16 (3.5%)
/r/
14 (3.1%)
/m/
13 (2.9%)
/dʒ/
13 (2.9%)
/ɪ/
13 (2.9%)
/j/
13 (2.9%)
/f/
11 (2.4%)
/l/
10 (2.2%)
/h/
9 (2%)
/s/
6 (1.3%)
/ʃ/
6 (1.3%)
/ʒ/
6 (1.3%)
/tʃ/
4 (0.9%)
/v/
3 (0.7%)
/p/
1 (0.2%)
/ŋ/
1 (0.2%)