Phonology
Sound inventory and phonological rules
24 consonants
9 vowels
Consonant Inventory
| Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pb | · | td | ʈɖ | · | kg | ʔ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | · | n | ɳ | · | · | · | |||||||
| Fricative | · | fv | sz | ʂʐ | · | x | h | |||||||
| Approximant | · | · | ɹ | · | j | w | · | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | · | · | l | · | · | · | · | |||||||
Vowel Inventory
| Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iy | · | u |
| Close-mid | e | · | o |
| Mid | · | ə | o̞ |
| Open-mid | ɛ | · | · |
| Open | a | · | · |
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across 937 transcribed dictionary entries (5,311 total tokens)
/a/
548 (10.3%)
/e/
383 (7.2%)
/i/
377 (7.1%)
/u/
372 (7%)
/l/
281 (5.3%)
/ɹ/
271 (5.1%)
/p/
268 (5%)
/k/
265 (5%)
/n/
264 (5%)
/t/
257 (4.8%)
/ʂ/
254 (4.8%)
/m/
253 (4.8%)
/s/
249 (4.7%)
/ʈ/
218 (4.1%)
/ɳ/
97 (1.8%)
/ʐ/
94 (1.8%)
/w/
92 (1.7%)
/x/
91 (1.7%)
/ɖ/
89 (1.7%)
/h/
89 (1.7%)
/d/
87 (1.6%)
/f/
87 (1.6%)
/b/
85 (1.6%)
/g/
82 (1.5%)
/j/
81 (1.5%)
/z/
74 (1.4%)
/ə/
3 (0.1%)