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 355 transcribed dictionary entries (1,093 total tokens)
/ɑ/
108 (9.9%)
/ɛ/
88 (8.1%)
/n/
63 (5.8%)
/d/
58 (5.3%)
/oʊ/
56 (5.1%)
/u/
55 (5%)
/k/
54 (4.9%)
/i/
53 (4.8%)
/t/
49 (4.5%)
/g/
48 (4.4%)
/æ/
44 (4%)
/b/
43 (3.9%)
/ə/
36 (3.3%)
/s/
32 (2.9%)
/f/
30 (2.7%)
/r/
29 (2.7%)
/dʒ/
28 (2.6%)
/j/
26 (2.4%)
/m/
25 (2.3%)
/l/
23 (2.1%)
/p/
22 (2%)
/h/
20 (1.8%)
/tʃ/
20 (1.8%)
/v/
20 (1.8%)
/ɪ/
18 (1.6%)
/ʃ/
11 (1%)
/ʒ/
11 (1%)
/w/
10 (0.9%)
/ŋ/
6 (0.5%)
/o/
6 (0.5%)