Phonology

Sound inventory and phonological rules

22 consonants
9 vowels

Consonant Inventory

MannerBilabialLabiodentalAlveolarPostalveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosive
pb
·
td
·
·
kg
·
Nasal
m
·
n
·
·
ŋ
·
Trill
·
·
r
·
·
·
·
Fricative
·
fv
sz
ʃʒ
·
·
h
Affricate
·
·
·
·
·
·
Approximant
·
·
·
·
j
w
·
Lateral approximant
·
·
l
·
·
·
·

Vowel Inventory

HeightFrontCentralBack
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%)
//
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%)
//
28 (2.6%)
/j/
26 (2.4%)
/m/
25 (2.3%)
/l/
23 (2.1%)
/p/
22 (2%)
/h/
20 (1.8%)
//
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%)